Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Toledo, OH 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
Ohio unemployment fell to 3.3% while labor force contracted
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services — State unemployment and labor force trend data
This Month's Takeaways
Ohio labor force shrank by 95,000 year-over-year as of August 2026
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services — Statewide labor force participation data
Local Economic Conditions
Lucas County and Wood County unemployment rates for mid-2026
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services / BLS — County-level unemployment data for Toledo MSA
Toledo manufacturing employment decline April to May 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Metro-level manufacturing employment figures
Looking Ahead
National WARN notices naming major employers in 2026
Newsweek / LayoffAlert.org — WARN Act tracking and employer-level layoff reporting
National wage growth of 3.0% against 3.4% inflation, weakest since 2021
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National average hourly earnings and CPI 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