Emporia, KS jobs, layoffs and employers

7 open professional jobs in Emporia. Emporia is in Lyon County.

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Employers hiring most in Emporia

  1. GPAC3 open roles
  2. Colgate Palmolive1 open role
  3. Davron1 open role
  4. Lyon County, Kansas1 open role
  5. Pilot Company1 open role

Emporia layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Emporia 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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Colleges in Emporia

Colleges in Emporia
CollegeTypeStudents
Emporia State UniversityPublic 4-year1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Kansas WorkforceONE

    Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Linn, Lyon, Miami, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson

  • KANSASWORKS Southeast - Emporia

    Emporia · Affiliate · 620-342-3355

    M, T, W, Th 8:00am -1:00pm and 2:00pm-5:00pm, and F 8:00am -1:00pm

Lyon County economy

  • 5.2%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    5.6% the month before

  • 16,567

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 32,145

    people in Lyon County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $59,078

    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 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.