Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Tallahassee, FL 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
Tallahassee unemployment rate at 4.9% in August 2026
WLRN — Metro-level unemployment report
This Month's Takeaways
Leon County ranked 10th in job growth among 27 largest FL counties
Tallahassee Reports — Q1 2026 county employment ranking
Local Economic Conditions
Tallahassee MSA reached 200,500 jobs in August 2026, up 2,500 year-over-year
Office of Economic Vitality / Yahoo News — Metro job count and year-over-year change
Project Prestige: $25M, 100-job facility advancing at Innovation Park
Yahoo News — Confidential economic development project report
Looking Ahead
Florida minimum wage rises to $15.00/hour (tipped $11.98) Sept. 30, 2026
Florida Department of Commerce — State minimum wage schedule
National government payrolls down 17,000 in September, 216,000 over past year
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National payroll employment report by sector
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