Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · St. George, UT 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
Washington County average weekly wage of $1,016 vs national $1,569
Bureau of Labor Statistics — QCEW average weekly wage data, Q4 2025
Utah unemployment at 3.5% vs national 4.1%
Utah Department of Workforce Services / BLS — State and national unemployment comparison, August 2026
Local Economic Conditions
St. George MSA unemployment at 3.8% in July 2026
USA Facts / Bureau of Labor Statistics — Metro-level unemployment rate, July 2026
Washington County led Utah's five largest counties in job growth at 2.3%
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Mountain-Plains Information Office — County employment growth comparison, Q4 2025 release
Looking Ahead
Utah government employment fell 1,090 jobs amid $12.7M budget shortfall
Utah Department of Workforce Services — State public-sector employment trend, 2026
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% against 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National average hourly earnings vs CPI, September 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