Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Fort Collins-Loveland, CO 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
This Month's Takeaways
Larimer County wage growth of 9.2%-11.5% leading Colorado counties
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — County-level wage growth data
Colorado lost 1,400 nonfarm jobs in August 2026, third consecutive monthly decline
Common Sense Institute / Colorado Labor Market Update — Statewide nonfarm payroll tracking
Colorado net domestic migration turned negative in 2025
Colorado State Demography Office — State migration trend data
Local Economic Conditions
Larimer County unemployment rate and June job gain figures
BizWest / Colorado Department of Labor and Employment — Regional unemployment and payroll reporting
Open Threads in the Data
Government among top 2026 growth sectors in Colorado forecast
Colorado Business Economic Outlook — Statewide sector growth projections
Looking Ahead
National government payrolls down 216,000 over past year
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National payroll employment by sector
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