Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 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
San Jose-area private industry compensation costs rose 3.6% YoY through June 2026, wages +3.5%; national wages +3.1%
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — BLS Employment Cost Index — San Jose Metropolitan Area, June 2026
Bay Area CPI headline inflation at 3.4% as of August 2026, core at 3.0%
USAFacts / Bureau of Labor Statistics — San Francisco area CPI, August 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Healthcare and private education added 5,500 jobs year-over-year in the San Jose area (+3.3%)
Wolf Street / BLS Current Employment Statistics — Wolf Street analysis of BLS CES data for San Jose area, August 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Silicon Valley tech companies laid off 7,295 workers in H1 2026, nearly matching full-year 2025 total
Joint Venture Silicon Valley / San José Spotlight — Joint Venture Silicon Valley analysis of WARN notices through June 30, 2026
South Bay employment grew 20,400 jobs (+1.7%) year-over-year through August 2026; MSA unemployment at 4.3%
California Employment Development Department — EDD monthly labor force data for San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA, August 2026
Looking Ahead
September 2026 Bay Area tech WARN filings (Oracle, PayPal, Uber) push 2026 total ~36% above full-year 2025
GovTech / Mercury News — Mercury News analysis of California WARN Act filings, 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