Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · OH 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
Ohio unemployment rate at 3.3% in August 2026, down from 3.4%
Bureau of Labor Statistics / ODJFS — State unemployment rate release
This Month's Takeaways
Ohio manufacturing, construction, health services job gains June-July 2026
Policy Matters Ohio — Sector-level Ohio job growth analysis
Local Economic Conditions
Ohio labor force fell by 95,000 year-over-year as of August 2026
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services — State labor force and employment trend data
National wage growth at 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation, widening real-wage gap
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National average hourly earnings and CPI data
Looking Ahead
18 WARN notices in Ohio in trailing 90 days affecting 3,134 workers
LayoffIQ — WARN Act notice tracking for Ohio
Metro-level BLS data for OH nonmetro area delayed until after Oct 20, 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — LAUS publication schedule note
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