Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Greeley, 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
Key Indicators
Greeley MSA unemployment rate at 4.3% as of most recent reading
Bureau of Labor Statistics — BLS Greeley MSA economic summary
Weld County average weekly wage of $1,376 vs Colorado's $1,774
Bureau of Labor Statistics QCEW — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Q4 2025/Q1 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Colorado labor force participation fell to 67.4% from 68.1% year-over-year
Colorado Business Economic Outlook — State labor force participation tracking
Weld County government employment reached 986 workers by March 2026
Revelio Labs Workforce Intelligence — Workforce data report, March 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Colorado lost 1,400 nonfarm jobs in August 2026, third straight monthly decline
Colorado Department of Labor and Employment — State labor market data release, August 2026
Looking Ahead
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% annually vs 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National Employment Situation report, 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