Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY 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
Poughkeepsie-Newburgh was the only Hudson Valley area with declining private-sector jobs
Mid Hudson News — September 19, 2026 reporting on Hudson Valley employment trends
This Month's Takeaways
Private education and health services reached record 239,800 jobs, up 2.8% year-over-year
Mid Hudson News — August 2026 Hudson Valley sector employment data
Dutchess County average weekly wage $1,453 vs Orange County $1,276 in Q1 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Q1 2026
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% annually against 3.4% inflation in September
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 average hourly earnings and CPI data
Local Economic Conditions
Dutchess County unemployment at 3.9%, Orange County at 4.3% in August 2026
New York State Department of Labor — Preliminary August 2026 county unemployment data
Looking Ahead
New York statewide labor force participation fell from 61.5% to 61.3% in July 2026
New York State Department of Labor — July 2026 labor force participation data
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