Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · IN NONMETROPOLITAN AREA · 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
570 new high-wage jobs announced across advanced manufacturing, agbioscience, defense
Indiana Economic Development Corporation — Governor's Q3 investment announcement, September 29, 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Local government financial confidence declined sharply in 2026
Inside Indiana Business — Survey of local government leaders, September 25, 2026
Indiana labor force participation rate fell to 63% in August
Bureau of Labor Statistics / Indiana DWD — State labor force participation data, August 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Pulaski, Wells, Boone counties post lowest nonmetro unemployment rates
Indiana Department of Workforce Development — County-level unemployment rankings, September 2026
Givaudan $215 million Dearborn County investment, 250+ jobs
Indiana Economic Development Corporation — IEDC investment announcement, September 2026
Looking Ahead
National nonfarm payrolls added 29,000 jobs in September, wages trail inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National 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