Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Pueblo, CO 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
Colorado unemployment rate at 4.0% in August 2026
Colorado Department of Labor and Employment — State unemployment figure, August 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Colorado labor force participation fell to 67.4% from 68.1%
Colorado Business Economic Outlook — State labor force participation trend, 2025-2026
Local Economic Conditions
Pueblo County unemployment rate reached 6.6% in August 2026
USA Facts / Federal Reserve data — Pueblo County unemployment figure for August 2026
Mission Foods tortilla plant closure affecting 90 workers
Colorado Sun — Report on Mission Foods Pueblo plant closure, Aug 14 2026
Pueblo MSA employment decline from Nov 2025 to Apr 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Pueblo metro employment series, preliminary 2026 data
Looking Ahead
Battelle WARN notice for 12 employees filed August 2026
WARN Firehose — Colorado WARN Act notice tracking, 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