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Fort Scott, KS jobs, layoffs and employers

4 open professional jobs in Fort Scott. Fort Scott is in Bourbon County.

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Employers hiring most in Fort Scott

  1. gpac1 open role
  2. GPAC1 open role
  3. Solenis1 open role
  4. Ward Kraft1 open role

Fort Scott layoffs

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

All layoff notices in the state

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Fort Scott. 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

Bourbon County economy

  • 6.3%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    6.0% the month before

  • 5,809

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 14,384

    people in Bourbon County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $67,555

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 31%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

All of Kansas

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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.