Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Rome, GA 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
Georgia unemployment rate at 3.2%, record labor force of 5,490,319
Georgia Department of Labor — State labor force and employment data release
National wage growth at 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 jobs report wage and inflation data
This Month's Takeaways
Georgia health care added 19,100 jobs year-over-year
Georgia Department of Labor — Sector-level annual employment change data
Local Economic Conditions
Rome MSA unemployment rose to 3.3% in August, down from 3.9% a year ago
My KC Country/1031 Radio M — Local news coverage of Rome MSA labor market data
Looking Ahead
National payroll growth slowed to 29,000 in September with downward revisions
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 employment situation report
Manufacturing accounts for nearly 39% of Georgia's historical WARN-triggered layoffs
WARN Act filings database — Georgia WARN notice data through September 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