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Chester, CT jobs, layoffs and employers

3 open professional jobs in Chester. Chester is in Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region.

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Employers hiring most in Chester

  1. Aston Carter1 open role
  2. Kineticengines1 open role
  3. Region 4 Education Service Center1 open role

Chester layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Chester 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 Chester. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

  • Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board, Inc.

    Towns: Ashford, Bozrah, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Colchester, Columbia, Coventry, East Lyme, Eastford, Franklin, Griswold, Groton, Hampton, Killingly, Lebanon, Ledyard, Lisbon, Lyme, Mansfield, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Old Lyme, Plainsfield, Pomfret, Preston, Putnam, Salem, Scotland, Sprague, Sterling, Stonington, Thompson, Union, Voluntown, Waterford, Willington, Windham, Woodstock

  • Workforce Alliance

    Towns: Bethany, Branford, Chester, Clinton, Cromwell, Deep River, Durham, East Haddam, East Hampton, East Haven, Essex, Guilford, Haddam, Hamden, Killingworth, Madison, Meriden, Middlefield, Middletown, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Old Saybrook, Orange, Portland, Wallingford, West Haven, Westbrook, Woodbridge

Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region economy

  • 3.8%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    3.4% the month before

  • 93,118

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 174,983

    people in Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $101,117

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 49%

    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.