Manchester, KY jobs, layoffs and employers

Manchester is in Clay County.

Manchester layoffs

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

Eastern Kentucky Workforce Development Board
Bell, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Magoffin, Martin, Menifee, Morgan, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Wolfe

Kentucky Career Center - Manchester
Manchester · Affiliate · 606-598-5127
Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Clay County economy

5.6%
unemployment, Aug 2026
6.1% the month before
5,962
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
20,105
people in Clay County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$39,607
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: WARN notices from Kentucky’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.