Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Sandusky, OH 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
National wage growth at 3.0% annual vs 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National wage and inflation comparison, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Ohio labor force down 95,000 year-over-year despite population growth
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services/BLS — Labor force participation trend analysis
International Motors LLC WARN notice affected 1,341 employees in Ohio
LayoffIQ — Ohio WARN Act notice tracking
Local Economic Conditions
Erie County unemployment fell to 3.8% in August, lowest since 1990
Erie Times-News/USA Today — Reported record-low county unemployment rate
Ohio labor force shrank by 10,000 between July and August 2026
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services — State labor force and employment data
Open Threads in the Data
Food prep/serving occupations represent 15.2% of Sandusky MSA employment
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Occupational employment share for Sandusky MSA
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