Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Honolulu, HI 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
Nonagricultural employment totaled 642,700 jobs in July, 0.2% above July 2025
Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism — Statewide nonfarm payroll employment data
This Month's Takeaways
Federal government employment fell 8.7% year-over-year in Hawaii
Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism — State industry employment breakdown
Construction payrolls up 3.3% while private building permit value fell 34%
Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism — Construction sector employment and permits data
Local Economic Conditions
Honolulu unemployment rate fell to 2.5% in September from 2.7% in August
Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism — State labor market data release
Labor force reached highest level since December 2019
Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism — Labor force participation statistics
Open Threads in the Data
Statewide average weekly wages rose 1.7% year-over-year
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Q1 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