Cherokee, AL jobs, layoffs and employers
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Employers hiring most in Cherokee
- Hadrian3 open roles
- Essity2 open roles
- Deploy1 open role
- StreamingFast1 open role
Cherokee layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Cherokee in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Cherokee. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
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Colbert County economy
3.9%
unemployment, Aug 2026
3.4% the month before
25,891
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
57,648
people in Colbert County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$56,736
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
More cities in Colbert County
- Muscle Shoals10 jobs
- Sheffield2 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from Alabama’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures.