Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Fort Wayne, IN 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
National unemployment at 4.2% with wage growth at 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 employment situation report
This Month's Takeaways
Indiana manufacturing added 3,500 jobs in August; 16,100 net payroll loss over 12 months
Indiana Department of Workforce Development — State sector employment figures
Local Economic Conditions
Fort Wayne MSA unemployment rate at 3.3% through summer 2026
Indiana Department of Workforce Development — State labor market data release
Fort Wayne MSA lost 600 jobs in June 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Metro nonfarm payroll employment data
Open Threads in the Data
Indiana labor force participation rate at 63%, down from 63.1%
Indiana Department of Workforce Development — State labor force participation data
Looking Ahead
Owens Corning WARN notice affecting 130 employees in Walkerton, IN
Indiana WARN Act filings — State WARN notice database
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