Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Johnstown, PA 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
Metro average weekly wage of $1,002 vs. national $1,654
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Q1 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Johnstown MSA unemployment rate and payroll figures for July 2026
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry — Preliminary employment situation report, Johnstown MSA
Cambria County job postings up 36.6% year-over-year in March 2026
Center for Workforce Information & Analysis — County-level online job posting data
Looking Ahead
Pennsylvania statewide unemployment rose to 4.1% in September 2026
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry — Preliminary state employment situation report
Labor force dropouts rose from 8,000 to over 15,000 statewide
Keystone Research Center — Analysis of PA labor force participation trends
National WARN notices totaled 3,562 affecting 313,234 workers
LayoffAlert.org — WARN Act notice tracking, as of Sept 26, 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