Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · MS NONMETROPOLITAN AREA · 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
Mississippi statewide unemployment rate movement, August to September 2026
Joint Economic Committee / Mississippi Department of Employment Security — State unemployment rate reporting
This Month's Takeaways
Hitachi Energy investment announcement and manufacturing WARN activity
Office of Governor Tate Reeves — State economic announcement, September 2026
Stanley Black & Decker, Greenwood Leflore Hospital, GXO Logistics WARN notices
LayoffData.com — Mississippi WARN Act notice tracking, 2026
Local Economic Conditions
County-level unemployment rates for Jefferson, Issaquena, Holmes, Jones, Lafayette counties
Mississippi Department of Employment Security — County-level unemployment statistics, 2026
Open Threads in the Data
Mississippi labor force participation rate of 54.4% vs. national 62.2%
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — State labor force participation data
Looking Ahead
National wage growth (3.0%) trailing inflation (3.4%) as of September 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National average hourly earnings and CPI 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