Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 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
Job openings-to-unemployed ratio fell below 1.5 from nearly 4 in 2022
NEworks / Nebraska Department of Labor — State job openings and candidate ratio data
Nebraska WARN notices totaled 6, affecting 1,143 workers, down 75% YoY
Nebraska Department of Labor WARN Act filings — State WARN notice tracking for 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Omaha MSA unemployment rate at 2.6% in July 2026
Nebraska Department of Labor — Metro-level unemployment and labor force data
Nebraska labor force participation fell to 69.3% in August 2026
Nebraska Department of Labor — State labor force participation trend data
Open Threads in the Data
Healthcare, professional/scientific/technical services, construction led NE job growth
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City — Regional sector employment growth report, September 2026
Looking Ahead
National payroll growth slowed to 29,000 in September with downward revisions
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National nonfarm payroll employment report
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