Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Savannah, 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 statewide average weekly wage increased 3.3% to $1,539
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Q1 2026 County Employment and Wages data
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% against 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Average hourly earnings and CPI data, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Chatham County accounts for 81,816 of 111,961 port-supported jobs in coastal Georgia
Georgia Ports Authority / Metropolitan Planning Commission — Port-supported employment estimates
Savannah ranks 4th among Georgia cities for WARN Act filings, 916 workers affected
WARNact.io — WARN Act notice tracking, trailing 24 months
Local Economic Conditions
Chatham County employment rose 5.7% with average weekly wage of $1,306
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — County-level quarterly wage and employment data, Q4 2025
Open Threads in the Data
Georgia professional/technical services employment fell 11,600 year-over-year
Georgia Department of Labor — Statewide sector employment change data, 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