Paxton, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Paxton
- Inside Sales Representative - Building Materials / LumberyardCharles Kirchner And Son
Employers hiring most in Paxton
- Charles Kirchner And Son1 open role
Paxton layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Paxton 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 Paxton. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- East Central Illinois Workforce Board
Champaign, Ford, Iroquois, Piatt
Illinois workNet Center - Ford County
Paxton · Affiliate · 217-850-0801
By Appointment
Ford County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.7% the month before
6,259
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
13,396
people in Ford County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$60,782
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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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.