Arkansas City, KS jobs, layoffs and employers

4 open professional jobs in Arkansas City. Arkansas City is in Cowley County.

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Jobs in Arkansas City

Licensed Client Services AssociateThrivent Financial
Military DoD SkillBridge Program - Production SupervisorGeneral Electric
Human Resources Business PartnerGeneral Electric
Senior LTC Actuary: Governance & Controls LeadGenworth

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Employers hiring most in Arkansas City

General Electric2 open roles
Genworth1 open role
Thrivent Financial1 open role

Arkansas City layoffs

No layoff notices naming Arkansas City in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Cowley County outlook: Steady

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

Private-sector jobs down 4.8% from 2022 to 2025
Population down 0.4% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 4.1%, up 0.1 points from a year ago
Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−334 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Arkansas City. Each link goes to the publisher.

Boeing to cut 5% of workforce in commercial airplane division through layoffs, attritionThe Business Journals · Nov 9, 2026
Wichita workers included in Bell Textron layoffsksn.com · Oct 1, 2026

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Arkansas City. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in Kansas? How to file for unemployment in Kansas (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

Workforce Alliance Local Workforce Development Board
Butler, Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner

Cowley County economy

4.1%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.0% the month before
14,937
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
34,487
people in Cowley County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$58,263
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: Layoff notices from Kansas’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. Kansas unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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