Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Lima, OH 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
This Month's Takeaways
Lima added 310 jobs in 2025 vs. losses in Mansfield, Springfield
Policy Matters Ohio via LimaOhio.com — Regional employment comparison report, July 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Allen County unemployment rate at 3.7% in August 2026
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services / BLS — Local area unemployment statistics
Ohio labor force participation rate at 61.3% vs. national 61.6%
Policy Matters Ohio — State labor force participation comparison, August 2026
Open Threads in the Data
Ohio labor force shrank by 95,000 workers year-over-year
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services — State labor force participation data, August 2026
Looking Ahead
National payrolls added just 29,000 jobs in September, below trailing average
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report
Dana plant layoff affecting 295 workers in Lima, April 2025
WARN Act Firehose — Ohio WARN notice filing record
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