Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Logan, UT-ID 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
Cache County average weekly wage of $1,054 in Q1 2026
U.S. Bureau of Workforce Services — County Employment and Wages report
Local Economic Conditions
Logan MSA unemployment at 3.1%, total nonfarm employment at 69.5K in August
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics / Utah DWS — Metro-level employment and unemployment data
Local Government contracted 11.3%, Transportation/Warehousing declined 8.3%
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Sector-level employment change, Logan MSA, August 2026
Open Threads in the Data
$12.7M northern Utah budget shortfall tied to government employment decline
Utah Department of Workforce Services — State economic update on public-sector employment
Looking Ahead
National wage growth at 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation, first erosion in two years
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National wage and CPI comparison, September 2026
Utah WARN notices down 11% year-over-year, 1,684 workers affected
LayoffIQ / Utah WARN filings — State WARN Act notice tracking, 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