Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA 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
Local Economic Conditions
Kingsport-Bristol MSA unemployment rate 4.0% in June 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Metro area unemployment statistics, Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol MSA
Tennessee unemployment steady at 3.4% in August 2026
Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development — Statewide unemployment report, August 2026
89 of 95 Tennessee counties below 5% unemployment in July
Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development — County-level unemployment data, July 2026
Open Threads in the Data
Tennessee healthcare sector led statewide job gains over past year
Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development — Statewide nonfarm employment by sector
Looking Ahead
National WARN notices at 3,562 affecting 313,234 workers as of Sept 26, 2026
LayoffAlert.org — WARN Act notice tracking, national
Tennessee education/health employment growth flattened to 0.2% YoY
Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research — Tennessee sector employment growth analysis
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