Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Mansfield, 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
Ohio labor force fell 95,000 year-over-year despite falling unemployment rate
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services — Ohio civilian labor force and employment estimates, August 2026
Manufacturing led Ohio WARN notices with International Motors cutting 1,341 jobs
LayoffIQ — Ohio WARN Act notice tracking, trailing 90 days
Local Economic Conditions
Mansfield labor force and unemployment rate figures for May-June 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics / Ohio Department of Job and Family Services — Local Area Unemployment Statistics for Mansfield MSA
Production occupations total 41,650 workers in Mansfield MSA
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, Mansfield MSA
Looking Ahead
National wage growth fell to 3.0% against 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National average hourly earnings and CPI data, September 2026
Ohio August private-sector job growth lagged national pace
Policy Matters Ohio — Analysis of Ohio monthly employment data, August 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