Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · NY 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
This Month's Takeaways
Rural NY counties lost 13,707 workers and 2,580 jobs from 2012-2022
NYS Department of Labor — Decade-long rural labor force trend analysis
Local Economic Conditions
County unemployment ranged 3.2% (Saratoga) to 5.2% (St. Lawrence) in August 2026
NYS Department of Labor — County-level unemployment data, not seasonally adjusted
Danfoss manufacturing investment in Mohawk Valley attracting workers
NYS Department of Labor — Regional economic development reporting
Open Threads in the Data
SAAB opened new Aspen Park location in Central New York
NYS Department of Labor Expansions/Contractions Report — Employer expansion tracking, August 2026
Looking Ahead
NY local government shed 13,000 jobs outside education in September
New York State labor market research notes — State-level public sector employment trend
September 2026 metro-level BLS employment data releases October 20, 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Official BLS release calendar
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