Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Pittsfield, MA 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
Berkshire County average weekly wage of $1,295 vs US average $1,654
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — County Employment and Wages report, Q1 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Construction labor shortage reported in Berkshire County, February 2026
Berkshire Eagle / MassHire Berkshire — Regional workforce board reporting on construction sector
Local Economic Conditions
Pittsfield employment decline of -1.2% in August 2026, among state's largest
Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development — Monthly metro employment data release
Berkshire County WDA unemployment rate at 4.1% in August 2026
Massachusetts Department of Economic Research/LMI — County workforce development area unemployment data
Open Threads in the Data
Massachusetts Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services employment fell 5.8%
Massachusetts labor market research notes — State sector employment analysis, 2026
Looking Ahead
Five Massachusetts regions with year-over-year job gains exclude Pittsfield
Mass.gov — Massachusetts monthly employment situation report, August 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