Kankakee, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Kankakee
- Accounts Receivable Specialist - Medicaid & ReportingGardant
- Executive DirectorMoments Hospice
- Founding Executive Director Senior Living Lease-UpHeritage Woods of Des Plaines
- ADMIN DIRECTOR HOUSE SPVRRiverside Health Care System
- ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE SPECIALIST (REMOTE)Riverside Health Care System
- TEAM LEADER- REHAB UNIT (FT 9a-9:30p)Riverside Health Care System
- Accounts Payable SpecialistIntePros
- Accounts Payable SpecialistRussell Tobin
- Accounts Payable SpecialistAston Carter
- Branch ManagerPNC Financial Services Group
Employers hiring most in Kankakee
- Riverside Health Care System4 open roles
- Central Valley Medical Center2 open roles
- Gardant2 open roles
- Aston Carter1 open role
- Central Valley Medical Center1 open role
- CSL Behring1 open role
- DEL Monte1 open role
- Heritage Woods of Des Plaines1 open role
- IntePros1 open role
- Moments Hospice1 open role
Kankakee layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Kankakee in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Kankakee. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- Grundy Livingston Kankakee Workforce Board
Grundy, Kankakee, Livingston
Kankakee County economy
4.3%
unemployment, Aug 2026
5.6% the month before
49,283
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
106,833
people in Kankakee County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$68,325
median household income
Source: Census ACS
31%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
More cities in Kankakee County
- Manteno52 jobs
- Momence
- Bourbonnais5 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: 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.