Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Harrisonburg, VA 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
Harrisonburg MSA August 2026 unemployment rate and employment level
Virginia Works — August 2026 metro labor force data release
Virginia's labor force declined by 68,000 since early 2025
UVA Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service — August 2026 Virginia economic forecast
National wage growth of 3.0% trailing 3.4% inflation, September 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 employment situation report
This Month's Takeaways
80 Acres Farms Harrisonburg facility closure, May 2026, 80 workers
WARN Notice Database — Virginia WARN Act filing record
Local Economic Conditions
Virginia statewide unemployment rate and job losses, August 2026
Virginia Works / Virginia Employment Commission — Virginia Jobs Day Report, Sept 23 2026
Looking Ahead
Virginia labor force participation at 62.8%, a 10-year low
Virginia Works — August 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