Santa Cruz, CA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Santa Cruz

• Junior Graphic DesignerPedalFree
• Project Specialist - Bilingual (English/Spanish) PreferredSanta Cruz County Office Of Education
• Controller - Clean Energy & Renewable EnergyAlphaX
• Senior Actuation Design EngineerJoby Aviation
• Manager, Ticket Sales and Service (SCW)Golden State Warriors
• Chief Growth OfficerVerve
• Executive DirectorSccrtc
• Senior Executive Assistant to the Dean, EngineeringUniversity of California
• Autonomous Aircraft Systems Engineering ManagerJoby Aviation
• Mechanical Design EngineerJoby Aviation

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Employers hiring most in Santa Cruz

1. Joby Aviation45 open roles
2. Capstan Medical8 open roles
3. Cynch AI2 open roles
4. Memorial Hospital Logansport2 open roles
5. University of California, Santa Cruz2 open roles
6. AlphaX1 open role
7. Amazon1 open role
8. BKF Engineers1 open role
9. Builders FirstSource1 open role
10. Crosscut1 open role

Santa Cruz layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Santa Cruz in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Colleges in Santa Cruz

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Santa Cruz. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

• Santa Cruz County Workforce Development Board

  Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz County economy

• 5.3%

  unemployment, Aug 2026

  5.6% the month before

• 138,998

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 266,021

  people in Santa Cruz County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $109,266

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 48%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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