Taft, CA jobs, layoffs and employers
Taft layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Taft 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 Taft. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- Kern/Inyo/Mono Workforce Development Board
Inyo, Kern, Mono
America`s Job Center of California- Taft
Taft · Affiliate · 661-763-0200
Monday-Friday 7:30am-4:30pm
Kern County economy
8.4%
unemployment, Aug 2026
8.7% the month before
414,048
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
910,433
people in Kern County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$67,660
median household income
Source: Census ACS
30%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from California’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.