Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · Weirton-Steubenville, WV-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
National wage growth fell to 3.0%, lowest since May 2021
Bureau of Labor Statistics — September 2026 employment situation report
Local Economic Conditions
Weirton-Steubenville unemployment rate of 4.8% in July 2026
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Weirton-Steubenville MSA
Metro median age of 45.6 and workforce aging concerns
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Weirton, WV-OH Area Economic Summary
Ohio unemployment rate of 3.3% in August 2026
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services — State unemployment data, August 2026
Looking Ahead
Ohio labor force shrank by 95,000 over the past year
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services — August 2026 Ohio labor market data
18 WARN notices in Ohio in past 90 days, led by manufacturing
LayoffIQ — Ohio WARN notice tracking, 90-day window
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