Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Sioux City, IA-NE-SD 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
This Month's Takeaways
Manufacturing accounts for largest share of Iowa WARN-affected workers
WARNact.io — 24-month rolling WARN notice data by sector
Iowa has 60,378 current job openings statewide
Iowa Workforce Development — Statewide job openings count
Local Economic Conditions
Metro total nonfarm employment declined 1.2% year-over-year through February 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Sioux City MSA employment data
Iowa unemployment rate held at 3.2% for four consecutive months
Bureau of Labor Statistics / Iowa Workforce Development — Iowa statewide unemployment rate, August 2026
Looking Ahead
Iowa UI trust balance of $2.1 billion enabling lowest 2027 employer tax rates
Iowa Workforce Development — Unemployment insurance trust fund status
National payrolls added 29,000 jobs in September, below 45,000 prior-year average
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 national employment situation report
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