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Petersburg, IL jobs, layoffs and employers

Petersburg is in Menard County.

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Petersburg layoffs

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

  • Illinois workNet - Menard County

    Petersburg · Affiliate · 217-524-6096

    Mondays, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Menard County economy

  • 3.3%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.0% the month before

  • 5,741

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 12,169

    people in Menard County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $81,334

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 41%

    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.