Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Shreveport-Bossier City, LA 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
Shreveport-Bossier MSA unemployment rate 4.3%, December 2025
The Center Square — Local labor market reporting citing BLS data
Shreveport-Bossier MSA projected to add 2,700 jobs in 2026
The Forum — Louisiana MSA employment forecast
This Month's Takeaways
Schlumberger employs 800 at renovated former GM facility
The Forum — Regional economic development reporting
Local Economic Conditions
Caddo Parish employment at 109.1K, -0.7% YoY, March 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, parish-level data
Looking Ahead
Cyber Research Park employment growth 2024-2027 projections
The Forum — Bossier City economic development projections
Louisiana labor force participation rate 58.4%, ranked 43rd nationally
Louisiana Workforce Commission — August 2026 state labor force data
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