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Great Bend, KS jobs, layoffs and employers

4 open professional jobs in Great Bend. Great Bend is in Barton County.

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Employers hiring most in Great Bend

  1. GPAC2 open roles
  2. KanEquip2 open roles
  3. Nex-Tech Classifieds1 open role

Great Bend layoffs

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

  • Kansas Local Area I Workforce Development Board

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  • KANSASWORKS Great Bend

    Great Bend · Comprehensive · 620-793-5445

    8:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m.

Barton County economy

  • 4.4%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.1% the month before

  • 12,258

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 25,275

    people in Barton County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $56,733

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 34%

    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.