Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Longview, TX 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
Longview MSA nonfarm payroll employment, August 2026
Texas Workforce Commission — Metro payroll employment data
Texas WARN notices and affected workers, 2026 vs 2025
LayoffData / LayoffIQ — WARN Act notice tracking, Texas
This Month's Takeaways
Texas manufacturing activity accelerated sharply in September 2026
Dallas Federal Reserve — Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Local Economic Conditions
Gregg County unemployment rate trend March-June 2026
Texas Workforce Commission — County-level unemployment rate releases
Largest industries in Gregg County by employment
Bureau of Labor Statistics — County Business Patterns / QCEW industry 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