Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · UT NONMETROPOLITAN AREA · 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
Utah average weekly wage decline in real terms
USAFacts — July 2026 wage data, inflation-adjusted year-over-year change
This Month's Takeaways
Utah WARN notices down 11% year-over-year, 1,684 workers affected
LayoffIQ — 2026 Utah WARN Act notice totals
Local Economic Conditions
County-level nonmetro unemployment rates for August 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics / Utah DWS — County unemployment figures cited in pre-researched metro notes
Tyson Fresh Meats WARN notice for 723 workers in Eagle Mountain
LayoffIQ — Utah WARN Act notice tracking, August 2026
Northern Utah government budget shortfall and job losses
Utah Department of Workforce Services — State labor market news on public-sector employment decline
Looking Ahead
National wage growth of 3.0% against 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National average hourly earnings and CPI comparison
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