Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Lynchburg, VA 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
Virginia statewide unemployment held at 3.6% in August 2026
Virginia Works / Virginia Jobs Day Report — Statewide unemployment and labor force report, Sept. 23, 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Virginia labor force declined ~68,000 since early 2025; participation at 62.8%
Virginia Works / UVA Weldon Cooper Center — Labor force participation and demographic trend analysis
Local Economic Conditions
Lynchburg MSA unemployment rose to 5.1% in July 2026 from 4.0% in April
Bureau of Labor Statistics / FRED — Local area unemployment statistics for Lynchburg MSA
Lynchburg metro lost an average of 25 jobs/month in 2026 vs +75/month in 2025
USAFacts / BLS — Nonfarm employment trend data for Lynchburg MSA
Looking Ahead
Virginia manufacturing sector leads WARN notices with 14 filings, 1,936 workers
Virginia Employment Commission WARN Notices — State WARN Act notice tracking, trailing 90 days
September 2026 national payrolls added just 29,000, prior months revised down 60,000
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National nonfarm payroll employment report, September 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