Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Idaho Falls, ID 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
Average job posting hourly wage reached $25.08 in Idaho Falls MSA in August 2026
Idaho Department of Labor / Lightcast — Job postings and wage analytics
This Month's Takeaways
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% annually against 3.4% inflation in September 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National average hourly earnings and CPI data
Idaho Innovation Center relocating to former Melaleuca headquarters in Idaho Falls
LocalNews8 (via Idaho Department of Labor) — Local economic development news
Local Economic Conditions
Idaho Falls led Idaho MSAs with 0.8% month-over-month job growth in August 2026
Idaho Department of Labor — Monthly MSA employment data release
Eastern Idaho unemployment rose to 3.6% in August 2026 from 3.0% in July
Idaho Department of Labor — Regional labor force statistics
Open Threads in the Data
Construction/extraction represents 6.4% of Idaho Falls employment vs 4.1% nationally
Idaho Department of Labor — Industry employment concentration 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