Salem, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Salem
- Quality Engineer - IINorth American Lighting
- Executive DirectorMarion County Health Department
- Manufacturing EngineerLiberty Personnel Services
Employers hiring most in Salem
- Liberty Personnel Services1 open role
- Marion County Health Department1 open role
- North American Lighting1 open role
Salem layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Salem 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 Salem. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
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Knox County economy
4.4%
unemployment, Aug 2026
5.6% the month before
20,155
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
49,294
people in Knox County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$53,291
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.