Shawnee, KS jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Operations SpecialistZane State College
- Construction Project Manager (Commercial)GPAC
- QA EngineerArgenta
- Assistant General ManagerGecko Hospitality
- Wellness DirectorBrookdale Senior Living
- Field Sales RepresentativeAston Carter
- Project EngineerGPAC
- Senior Maintenance SpecialistJohnson County Government
- Operations SupervisorSoftbank Investment Advisers
- Credit Analyst IIIEnterprise Bank & Trust
Employers hiring most in Shawnee
- Amazon2 open roles
- GPAC2 open roles
- Argenta1 open role
- Aston Carter1 open role
- Brookdale Senior Living1 open role
- Enterprise Bank & Trust1 open role
- Gecko Hospitality1 open role
- Johnson County Government1 open role
- Softbank Investment Advisers1 open role
- Zane State College1 open role
Shawnee layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Shawnee 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 Shawnee. 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.