Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Texarkana, TX-Texarkana, AR 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
Texas added 159,400 jobs over the year, 1.1% annual growth rate
Texas Workforce Commission — Texas nonfarm payroll employment release, September 2026
National wage growth slowed to 3.0% annually, lowest since May 2021
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National Employment Situation report, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Bowie County employment grew 0.5% year-over-year, four-quarter average through Q3 2025
Bureau of Labor Statistics — County employment and wages (QCEW) data
Texas manufacturing wages rose 4.8% over the past year, strongest since December 2023
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — Texas mid-year manufacturing wage survey
Local Economic Conditions
Texarkana MSA unemployment rate at 4.7%, up from 4.4% a year earlier
Bureau of Labor Statistics (via regional data aggregator) — Texarkana MSA local area unemployment statistics
Looking Ahead
Texas manufacturing and transportation/logistics lead WARN notice filings in 2026
LayoffIQ / LayoffData — Texas WARN Act notice tracking, 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