# Input pack — Georgia Employment Tracker, run of 1 October 2026

Gathered following Part 1 of `../03-employment-tracker.md`, the morning
after September 2026 closed. Every figure below was fetched or re-read in
this run; nothing is carried over from the 21 September 2026 run.

Blocks gathered: 2 and 3. Block 1 **NOT GATHERED** — reason in its section.

## Block 1 — Persons receiving a salary (Revenue Service) — NOT GATHERED

**NOT GATHERED — the Revenue Service form needs a browser session this run
could not provide.**

Attempted exactly as `scripts/rs-fetch.js` does it, which is the only route
this prompt allows: load https://www.rs.ge/statistics in a real browser and
post the page's own `__RequestVerificationToken` to
`POST /RsGe.Module/Statistics/SearchStatistics` with `period=YYYYMM` and
`salaryType=1`. Three browser launches were made (periods queued: 202609,
202608, 202607, 202508). All three failed at navigation with
`net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID` — this run's HTTPS egress re-terminates
TLS, and the browser build available here does not read the certificate
authority it would have to trust. The only ways past that are to disable
certificate verification or to reach rs.ge by some route other than its own
form; the prompt and the series' hard rule allow neither, so the block is
reported as not gathered.

Note on the calendar, not a figure: rs.ge data for month M appear during
month M+1, so September 2026 salary data were not expected to exist on
1 October 2026 in any case. The latest month this block could have carried
is August 2026.

## Block 2 — Vacancies on jobs.ge

Source: `scripts/jobsge_count.py`, crawl of **2026-10-01** (job type "Job"
only, `jid=1`), 6,867 live listings, earliest publish date still listed
2025-12-05. Recorded by the month-end data routine
`openclaw-ge-georesearch-jobsge-monthly` into
`georesearch/data/jobsge/2026-09.md`; that table was re-read in this run and
its September column re-totalled (6,859, matching the file's stated total).
jobs.ge was not re-crawled here.

**Full month 1–30 September 2026**, all 17 jobs.ge categories:
| Category | Vacancies | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sales/Procurement | 1,390 | 20.3% |
| Administration/Management | 1,202 | 17.5% |
| Logistics/Transport/Distribution | 1,031 | 15.0% |
| Finance/Statistics | 934 | 13.6% |
| Food | 465 | 6.8% |
| Medicine/Pharmacy | 348 | 5.1% |
| General Technical Staff | 281 | 4.1% |
| PR/Marketing | 189 | 2.8% |
| Cleaning | 187 | 2.7% |
| Construction/Repair | 182 | 2.7% |
| Other (jobs.ge's own "Other" category) | 153 | 2.2% |
| IT/Programming | 150 | 2.2% |
| Security/Safety | 147 | 2.1% |
| Education | 126 | 1.8% |
| Law | 61 | 0.9% |
| Beauty/Fashion | 9 | 0.1% |
| Media/Publishing | 4 | 0.1% |
| **Total** | **6,859** | **100%** |

Grouped as PMC reports (five named categories plus Other):
| Category | Sep 2026 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sales/Procurement | 1,390 | 20.3% |
| Administration/Management | 1,202 | 17.5% |
| Logistics/Transport/Distribution | 1,031 | 15.0% |
| Finance/Statistics | 934 | 13.6% |
| IT/Programming | 150 | 2.2% |
| Other (all remaining categories) | 2,152 | 31.4% |
| Total | 6,859 | 100% |

**No MoM or YoY.** This is the first full-month count in the series. The only
earlier run, `data/jobsge/2026-09-21-partial.md`, covers 1–21 September only
and is a partial month, so it cannot serve as a previous-month comparison.
The next full-month file will give the first MoM.

Still-listed vacancies published in other months at crawl time (partial
remnants, not monthly counts, not used): 2025-12 — 1; 2026-08 — 1;
2026-10 — 6.

## Block 3 — Labour-force indicators (Geostat LFS) and earnings

Source: Geostat PX-Web,
`Social Statistics/Labour/LFS_by_sex_and_urban_(Quarter_II,_2026).px`,
variable `Sex, Urban/Rural Areas` = Total, explicit codes only
(Years 2025/2026 × Quarters I/II; `"format":"json"`). The Labour folder was
listed first in this run: the latest LFS table is still Quarter II, 2026, so
Q3 2026 indicators do not exist yet (they are due about mid-November 2026).
Queried 2026-10-01. Population aged 15 and over, total for the country.
Thousands of persons; rates in %.

| Indicator | Q2 2025 | Q1 2026 | Q2 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Labour force | 1,593.9 | 1,599.2 | 1,584.3 |
| Employed | 1,366.3 | 1,369.2 | 1,365.2 |
| Hired | 940.5 | 921.5 | 940.7 |
| Self-employed | 422.2 | 444.6 | 422.3 |
| Unemployed | 227.6 | 230.0 | 219.1 |
| Unemployment rate | 14.3 | 14.4 | 13.8 |
| Participation rate | 54.1 | 53.4 | 53.3 |
| Employment rate | 46.4 | 45.7 | 46.0 |

Average monthly nominal earnings, two independent public sources, both read
in this run and agreeing to the decimal:
- Geostat PX-Web, `Social Statistics/Labour/Wages_Nace2.px`, Total in
  country × Total activity, explicit codes, queried 2026-10-01: Q2 2025
  GEL 2,212.0; Q1 2026 GEL 2,363.8; Q2 2026 GEL 2,389.3.
- Geostat, "Average Monthly Nominal Earnings of Employees (II Quarter,
  2026)", released 15.09.2026, PDF text read in this run: Q2 2026
  GEL 2 389.3, "increased by 8.0 percent (177.3 GEL) compared to the same
  quarter of the previous year" — which puts Q2 2025 at GEL 2,212.0,
  matching the API. Highest-paying activities in Q2 2026, from the same
  text: information and communication GEL 4,400.4 (+5.4% YoY); financial
  and insurance activities GEL 4,074.1 (+9.2%); construction GEL 3,496.6
  (+0.8%); professional, scientific and technical activities GEL 3,304.8
  (+10.3%).
  https://geostat.ge/media/82731/Average-Monthly-Nominal-Earnings-of-Employees---%28II-Quarter%2C-2026%29.pdf

Derived changes (computed here from the figures above, not fetched):
- Unemployment rate: −0.6 pp QoQ (14.4 → 13.8), −0.5 pp YoY (14.3 → 13.8).
- Average nominal earnings: +1.1% QoQ (2,363.8 → 2,389.3), +8.0% YoY.
- Labour force: −14.9 thousand QoQ, −9.6 thousand YoY.
- Employed: −4.0 thousand QoQ, −1.1 thousand YoY.
- Hired: +19.2 thousand QoQ, +0.2 thousand YoY. Self-employed: −22.3
  thousand QoQ, +0.1 thousand YoY.

## Sources, with access method
| Institution | Dataset / release | Period | URL or endpoint | Accessed | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Service | Income-recipient natural persons, payment type salary | — | `POST https://www.rs.ge/RsGe.Module/Statistics/SearchStatistics` | 2026-10-01 | **failed** — browser could not establish trusted TLS; NOT GATHERED |
| jobs.ge | Vacancy listings, job type "Job" | 1–30 Sep 2026 | `POST https://jobs.ge/en/?page=N&cid=<c>&jid=1&for_scroll=yes` | 2026-10-01, 07:00 Tbilisi | `scripts/jobsge_count.py`, run by the month-end data routine; counts only, no postings stored |
| Geostat | LFS by sex, urban/rural, years and quarters (Quarter II, 2026) | Q2 2025, Q1–Q2 2026 | `https://pc-axis.geostat.ge/PXWeb/api/v1/en/Database/Social Statistics/Labour/LFS_by_sex_and_urban_(Quarter_II,_2026).px` | 2026-10-01 | PX-Web API, explicit codes, `format: json` |
| Geostat | Average monthly nominal salary, NACE Rev 2 | Q1 2025 – Q2 2026 | `.../Social Statistics/Labour/Wages_Nace2.px` | 2026-10-01 | PX-Web API, explicit codes |
| Geostat | Average Monthly Nominal Earnings of Employees (II Quarter, 2026) | Q2 2026 | https://geostat.ge/media/82731/Average-Monthly-Nominal-Earnings-of-Employees---%28II-Quarter%2C-2026%29.pdf | 2026-10-01 | direct PDF download, text extracted |

## Calendar
- rs.ge September 2026 salary data: expected during October 2026.
- Geostat LFS Q3 2026: ~mid-November 2026.
- Geostat earnings Q3 2026: ~mid-December 2026.
- PMC Research Center's Employment Tracker for September 2026: ~mid-November
  2026, about six weeks after month end.