Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Green Bay, WI 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
Wisconsin core CPI inflation at 3.9% vs. 4.2% forecast wage growth
COWS "State of Working Wisconsin" report — September 2026 state labor market report
Local Economic Conditions
Green Bay MSA unemployment rate was 3.1% in May 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment data
Manufacturing and healthcare employment and average weekly wage figures
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics QCEW — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Brown County
Open Threads in the Data
Wisconsin lost 8,100 jobs between November 2024 and July 2026
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development — State nonfarm payroll employment series
Looking Ahead
Black unemployment at 7.2% vs. 2.3% white rate in Wisconsin, Q1 2026
COWS "State of Working Wisconsin" report — State labor market equity analysis
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% annual, lowest since May 2021
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — 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