Lake City, FL jobs, layoffs and employers

6 open professional jobs in Lake City. Lake City is in Columbia County.

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Jobs in Lake City

Legal Assistant/ParalegalPrime Headhunting and Recruiting
Executive Director, Food & BeveragePier Sixty Six
Payroll/Human Resources AssistantChampion Homes
GUARDIAN AD LITEM OFFICE, 3RD CIRCUIT- SENIOR ATTORNEY - 21012801State of Florida
CRIMINAL CONFLICT AND CIVIL REGIONAL COUNSEL, 1ST REGION- FORENSIC FAMILY ADVOCATE - 21014706State of Florida
DISTRICT LOCAL PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR - 55011683State of Florida

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Employers hiring most in Lake City

State of Florida3 open roles
Champion Homes1 open role
Pier Sixty Six1 open role
Prime Headhunting and Recruiting1 open role

Lake City layoffs

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

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Columbia County outlook: Steady

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

Private-sector jobs up 2.2% from 2022 to 2025
Population up 6.2% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 5.1%, up 0.3 points from a year ago
Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+406 jobs)
Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−606 jobs), hotels & food (−343 jobs)

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CareerSource North Central Florida
Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Union

Columbia County economy

5.1%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.8% the month before
27,954
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
70,755
people in Columbia County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$55,070
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: Layoff notices from Florida’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. Florida unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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