Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Macon, GA 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
Georgia labor force and employment reached all-time highs, 3.2% unemployment
Georgia Department of Labor — August 2026 state labor force report
National wage growth slowed to 3.0%, inflation at 3.4%
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 average hourly earnings data
This Month's Takeaways
Bibb County employment declined 3,629 jobs year-over-year
Georgia Department of Labor / BLS — County employment comparison 2025 vs 2024
Georgia health care/social assistance led annual job gains with 19,100 jobs
Georgia Department of Labor — Statewide sector employment growth data
Local Economic Conditions
Macon-Bibb MSA unemployment rate 3.9% through December 2025
Georgia Department of Labor — Metro-level unemployment data, not seasonally adjusted
Looking Ahead
Georgia professional/technical services down 11,600, federal government down 9,400 YoY
Georgia Department of Labor — Annual sector employment comparison
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