Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ 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
Arizona statewide unemployment rate at 4.9% for third consecutive month
Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity / Joint Economic Committee — State labor market report, September 2026
National unemployment rate at 4.2% with 7.1 million unemployed
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Civilian labor force contracted 3.4K year-over-year through June 2026
Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity — Employment report, June 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Lake Havasu City-Kingman unemployment rate at 6.9% in July 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ Economy at a Glance
Nonfarm payroll employment declined 0.9% month-over-month to 56.2K in July 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Metro area nonfarm payroll data
Average hourly earnings rose 10.2% year-over-year to $29.90 in January 2026
Arizona's Economy (Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity) — Lake Havasu-Kingman MSA May 2026 Summary
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