Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Jacksonville, FL 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
Duval County unemployment at 4.9% in August, up from 4.2% a year earlier
Jax Daily Record — County-level unemployment reporting, September 18 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Resident employment declined 1.1% (8,848 persons) year-over-year through June 2026
HUD Market at a Glance, Jacksonville FL MSA — Resident labor force tracking
Local Economic Conditions
Jacksonville added 500 net jobs (0.1%) over twelve months through August 2026
Jax Daily Record — Reporting on metro nonfarm employment data
Education/health +4.8%, professional/business services +2.0%, financial activities -4,000 jobs, government -2,400 jobs
CareerSource Northeast Florida — Regional sector employment breakdown
Florida statewide job growth of 0.6% year-over-year outpaces national 0.4%
Florida Department of Commerce — Statewide employment growth comparison, reported September 18
Looking Ahead
Florida minimum wage rises to $15.00/hr and tipped wage to $11.98 effective September 30, 2026
Florida Department of Commerce — State minimum wage schedule
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