Sources & References
Metro Job Market Pulse · York-Hanover, PA 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
York-Hanover MSA unemployment rate at 3.5% in August 2026
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry — Local Area Unemployment Statistics, York County
National nonfarm payrolls added only 29,000 jobs in September, below 45,000 average
Bureau of Labor Statistics — National employment situation report, September 2026
This Month's Takeaways
Pennsylvania health and education added 36,000 jobs since August 2025
Keystone Research Center — Pennsylvania employment sector analysis
Local Economic Conditions
York County online job postings reached 9,508 in August, up 7.3% year-over-year
Pennsylvania Department of Labor — County labor market profile, August 2026
Open Threads in the Data
National wage growth of 3.0% now trails 3.4% inflation
Bureau of Labor Statistics — Average hourly earnings and CPI data, September 2026
Looking Ahead
Pennsylvania recorded 17 WARN notices affecting 1,899 workers in past 90 days
LayoffIQ — Pennsylvania WARN notice tracking, 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