Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA 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
Healthcare and social assistance added 10,900 jobs statewide over past year
Oregon Employment Department — Sector-level employment change data
Local Economic Conditions
Portland metro lost 32,600 nonfarm payroll jobs, March 2025–March 2026
Traders Union — Metro job market decline ranking among U.S. metros
Washington County unemployment at 3.7%
Your Oregon News — County-level unemployment report, September 2026
Open Threads in the Data
Multnomah County GDP dropped 1.5% year-over-year
Portland Tribune — County GDP and unemployment report, September 25, 2026
Looking Ahead
Intel committed $36 billion to long-term Hillsboro facility upgrades
Multifamily NW — Local capital investment report
Recent Oregon WARN notices in Portland and Tualatin totaling ~167 workers
Oregon Employment Department WARN Notices — September 2026 WARN Act filings
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