Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Medford, OR 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
Oregon professional/business services lost 1,100 jobs in August 2026
Oregon Employment Department — Statewide nonfarm payroll sector data
Oregon healthcare and social assistance added 10,900 jobs, 3.5% growth
Oregon Employment Department — Year-over-year sector employment growth, Nov 2024-Nov 2025
Local Economic Conditions
Medford MSA unemployment rate rose to 6.3% in August 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Metro-level unemployment data, preliminary seasonally adjusted
Medford MSA added zero net jobs in June 2026; averaged 50/month YTD
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Metro employment change data
Looking Ahead
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% annually vs 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Average hourly earnings and CPI comparison, September 2026
September 2026 Medford metro data releases October 20, 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — BLS release schedule for county/metro unemployment 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