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Canaan, CT jobs, layoffs and employers

4 open professional jobs in Canaan. Canaan is in Northwest Hills Planning Region.

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Employers hiring most in Canaan

  1. BD1 open role
  2. BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)1 open role
  3. CRH Public1 open role
  4. Insight Global1 open role

Canaan layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Canaan 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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Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Capital Workforce Partners Development Board

    Towns: Andover, Avon, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bolton, Bristol, Burlington, Canton, East Granby, East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartford, Hebron, Manchester, Marlborough, New Britain, Newington, Plainville, Plymouth, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, Somers, South Windsor, Southington, Stafford, Suffield, Tolland, Vernon, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor, Windsor Locks

  • Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board

    Towns: Barkhamsted, Bethel, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Canaan, Cheshire, Colebrook, Cornwall, Danbury, Groshen, Hartland, Harwinton, Kent, Litchfield, Middlebury, Morris, Naugatuck, New Fairfield, New Hartford, New Milford, Newtown, Norfolk, North Canaan, Prospect, Redding, Ridgefield, Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon, Sherman, Southbury, Thomaston, Torrington, Warren, Washington, Waterbury, Watertown, Winchester, Wolcott, Woodbury

Northwest Hills Planning Region economy

  • 3.9%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    3.6% the month before

  • 59,053

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 112,848

    people in Northwest Hills Planning Region

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $91,035

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 46%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: WARN notices from Connecticut’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.