Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA 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
Luzerne County unemployment rate of 5.0% in September 2026
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry — County-level unemployment report
National unemployment rate at 4.1%-4.2% as of September 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report
Pennsylvania nonfarm payrolls hit 17th consecutive record-high month
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry — State nonfarm employment report, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
PA health and education sector added 36,000 jobs since August 2025
Keystone Research Center — Analysis of PA sector-level employment change
Local Economic Conditions
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre MSA unemployment rate was 4.7% in July 2026
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry — Metro-level seasonally adjusted unemployment data
Looking Ahead
PA House passed H.B. 2189 minimum wage increase, stalled in Senate
Pennsylvania House of Representatives — State legislative tracking on minimum wage bill
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