Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · GA NONMETROPOLITAN AREA · 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
Georgia sectoral job losses in professional/technical, federal government, construction
Georgia Department of Labor — Year-over-year sector employment change data
Health care/social assistance added 19,100 jobs over the year in Georgia
Georgia Department of Labor — Annual sector job gains by industry
Local Economic Conditions
Georgia unemployment fell to 3.2% with record labor force and employment in August
Georgia Department of Labor — August 2026 state labor force statistics release
Nonmetro-specific September 2026 data not yet published
Georgia Department of Labor — Stated release schedule of Oct 15-22, 2026
Looking Ahead
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% against 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 average hourly earnings and CPI comparison
Georgia WARN filings declined to 17 in most recent quarter from 33
Georgia WARN Act tracking data — WARN notice filings through September 14, 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