Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Florence, SC MSA · October 2026
Every advertised-pay, job-posting and industry figure in this briefing comes from WageScape's own database of active job postings. The sources below back the external facts cited in the written analysis.
Sources cited in this report
Key Indicators
Florence County unemployment rate 4.6% in July 2026
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) — County-level unemployment series
This Month's Takeaways
Transportation/warehousing employment projected to grow 42.9% to 13,030 jobs
SC Department of Employment and Workforce — Industry employment projections
Koppers Inc. WARN notice for 66 workers, effective April 2026
SC Department of Employment and Workforce / WARN Fire Hose — WARN Act filing, February 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Florence MSA employment at 96,200, down 400 jobs year-over-year
USA Facts / BLS — Metro-level employment estimate, June 2026
Florence average weekly wage $903.56, up 15.3% YoY, down 1.2% MoM
SC Department of Employment and Workforce — Data Trends wage report, June 2026
Looking Ahead
National wage growth at 3.0% annual vs 3.4% inflation, weakest since May 2021
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National Employment Situation, September 2026
How the numbers are calculated
- Advertised pay is the median of the pay ranges employers publish in active job postings in this metro. It is not survey or payroll data.
- Percent changes compare the latest six full months with the six months before that, for the same metro and sector.
- Sectors group postings by the employer's industry (NAICS) classification into ten sectors. Where a metro has too few postings in a sector, the state figure is used instead.
- Role pay trends use the same comparison windows. "Stable" means a change of less than 3%; "moderate" 3–10%; "significant" more than 10%.
Official data for comparison