Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Sherman-Denison, TX 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
Sherman-Denison added 100 jobs month-over-month, 500 annually (0.9%)
Texas Workforce Commission — Texas MSA rankings, August–September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Texas manufacturing wages up 4.8% year-over-year, strongest since Dec 2023
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — Mid-year manufacturing wage survey
Local Economic Conditions
Sherman-Denison unemployment at 4.4%, ranked 12th among Texas metros
Texas Workforce Commission — September 2026 Labor Market Review
Texas added 159,400 jobs annually, 1.1% growth, outpacing U.S. by 0.7 pts
Texas Workforce Commission — Statewide nonfarm payroll data
Looking Ahead
National wage growth at 3.0%, below 3.4% inflation, lowest since May 2021
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National wage and CPI data, September 2026
Grayson County unemployment rate at 4.6% in September 2026
ZipDataMaps — County labor market profile
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