Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Tyler, TX 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 annually, 1.1% growth rate
Texas Workforce Commission — Statewide nonfarm payroll growth, August 2026
This Month's Takeaways
YellaWood and Amazon moved into Smith County
KETK News — Local news report on employer relocations, April 2026
Local Economic Conditions
Tyler MSA unemployment rate at 4.2% in September 2026
Texas Workforce Commission — Labor Market Review, September 2026
Smith County unemployment rose from 3.8% to 4.5%
Texas Workforce Commission — County-level unemployment data
Tyler MSA added 1,700 jobs annually, 1.4% growth
Tyler Paper / Texas Workforce Commission — Annual nonfarm employment growth figures
Looking Ahead
National wage growth at 3.0% vs 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Average hourly earnings and 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