Sterling, IL jobs, layoffs and employers

13 open professional jobs in Sterling. Sterling is in Whiteside County.

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Employers hiring most in Sterling

  1. Pivotal Talent Search3 open roles
  2. Castor Home Health Solutions1 open role
  3. HALO1 open role
  4. Horizon Health1 open role
  5. Leggett & Platt1 open role
  6. Leggett & Platt1 open role
  7. MacLean-Fogg1 open role
  8. Masonicare Home Health And Hospice1 open role
  9. Sauk Valley Bank1 open role
  10. Veterans Health Administration1 open role

Sterling layoffs

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

  • NCI Works

    Bureau, Carroll, Jo Daviess, La Salle, Lee, Ogle, Putnam, Whiteside

Whiteside County economy

  • 3.8%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.9% the month before

  • 26,794

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 55,192

    people in Whiteside County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $64,536

    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.