Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 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
PA health/education and leisure/hospitality added 36,000 jobs since Aug 2025
Keystone Research Center — Analysis of PA Dept of Labor & Industry employment data
Government, construction, trade/transport, information sectors lost 13,900 PA jobs
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry — Preliminary employment situation report, September 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Philadelphia metro unemployment rate at 4.1% in most recent reading
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington MSA employment situation, July 2026
National payrolls added 29,000 jobs in September, wage growth at 3.0%
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report, September 2026
Looking Ahead
Pennsylvania recorded 174 WARN filings over 24 months affecting 27,932 workers
Pennsylvania WARN Notice Registry — PA DLI WARN notice registry, September 2026 compilation
Bucks County posted largest county-level employment loss at -1.3%
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry — County-level employment data through Q1 2026
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