Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Lebanon, 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
Pennsylvania unemployment rate at 4.1% in September 2026
PA Department of Labor & Industry — Preliminary state employment situation report
Pennsylvania nonfarm payrolls hit 6,252,900, 17th consecutive record month
PA Department of Labor & Industry — State nonfarm payroll data, September 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Lebanon MSA unemployment rate at 3.6% in June 2026
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry / BLS — Metro-level unemployment data, June 2026
National unemployment rate holding at 4.1%, one-year low
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation, August 2026
Open Threads in the Data
PA health/education added 36,000 jobs since August 2025 while construction/government lost jobs
Keystone Research Center — State sector employment analysis, September 2026
Looking Ahead
National wage growth at 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation, weakest since May 2021
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National average hourly earnings and CPI data
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