Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA 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 nonfarm payrolls added 29,000 in September 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report, September 2026
Louisiana labor force participation rate at 58.4%, ranks 43rd
Louisiana Workforce Commission — State labor force participation data, August 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes at 4.1% unemployment, May 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via USAFacts — Parish-level unemployment data, May 2026
Parish covered employment and average weekly wages, Q1 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Terrebonne/Lafourche parishes
Open Threads in the Data
Houma RLMA job openings and candidate pool, February 2026
Louisiana Economic Development / Louisiana Works HiRE system — Regional labor market area job posting and candidate data
Looking Ahead
Louisiana WARN notices down 63% year-over-year in affected workers
LayoffData.com — WARN Act tracking, 2026 year-to-date
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