Gardner, KS jobs, layoffs and employers
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- General Manager - GardnerFreddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
- Operations ManagerEcowaste Solutions
- Construction Project Manager (Commercial)GPAC
Employers hiring most in Gardner
- Ecowaste Solutions1 open role
- Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers1 open role
- GPAC1 open role
Gardner layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Gardner 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 Gardner. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- Workforce Partnership Workforce Development Board
Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte
Johnson County economy
4.1%
unemployment, Aug 2026
3.9% the month before
365,032
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
614,764
people in Johnson County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$107,261
median household income
Source: Census ACS
56%
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 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.