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New Canaan, CT jobs, layoffs and employers

4 open professional jobs in New Canaan. New Canaan is in Western Connecticut Planning Region.

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Employers hiring most in New Canaan

  1. Bankwell2 open roles
  2. MedBest Recruiting1 open role
  3. Reynolds + Rowella1 open role

New Canaan layoffs

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

  • 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

  • The WorkPlace Inc.

    Towns: Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bridgeport, Darien, Derby, Easton, Fairfield, Greenwich, Monroe, New Canaan, Norwalk, Oxford, Seymour, Shelton, Stamford, Stratford, Trumbull, Weston, Westport, Wilton

Western Connecticut Planning Region economy

  • 3.9%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    3.4% the month before

  • 333,297

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 621,232

    people in Western Connecticut Planning Region

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $124,553

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 52%

    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.