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Highland, IL jobs, layoffs and employers

4 open professional jobs in Highland. Highland is in Grundy County.

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Employers hiring most in Highland

  1. Eaton3 open roles
  2. Buzzi Unicem USA1 open role

Highland layoffs

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

Grundy County economy

  • 4.9%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.1% the month before

  • 28,533

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 52,920

    people in Grundy County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $93,060

    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: WARN notices from Illinois’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.