Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Glens Falls, NY 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 wage growth slowed to 3.0% year-over-year, lowest since May 2021
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 employment situation report
Local Economic Conditions
Glens Falls MSA unemployment rate held at 3.4% in August 2026
New York State Department of Labor — Preliminary August 2026 area unemployment rates
Glens Falls nonfarm jobs fell 0.4% while private jobs rose 0.9% year over year
NYS Department of Labor Capital Region Report — December 2025 employment summary for Glens Falls MSA
Glens Falls average weekly wage of $1,231 vs U.S. average of $1,654
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Q1 2026
Looking Ahead
New York local government shed 13,000 jobs outside education in September
Federal Reserve / NYS labor data — September 2026 New York labor market research notes
New York statewide labor force participation fell from 61.5% to 61.3% in July 2026
New York State Department of Labor — July 2026 labor force participation data
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