Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Ogden-Clearfield, UT 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
National unemployment rate at 4.1%, metro and state at 3.5%
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National and state unemployment comparison
National wage growth at 3.0% vs inflation at 3.4%
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Average hourly earnings and CPI data, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Financial activities employment rose 1.9% in Ogden-Clearfield MSA
Utah Department of Workforce Services — Sector-level employment growth figures
Local Economic Conditions
Weber County employment fell 1.1% year-over-year to 125,027 in August 2026
Utah Department of Workforce Services — County-level employment data, August 2026
Sector job gains in education/health services and leisure/hospitality
Utah Department of Workforce Services — Ogden-Clearfield MSA sector employment data
Looking Ahead
Northern Utah government employment fell 1,090 jobs amid budget shortfall
Utah Department of Workforce Services — State and local government payroll 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