Whitesburg, KY jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Whitesburg
- Marketing SpecialistChilders Oil
Employers hiring most in Whitesburg
- Childers Oil1 open role
Whitesburg layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Whitesburg 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 Whitesburg. 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 JobSight, Whitesburg
Whitesburg · Affiliate · 606-633-3154
8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday
Letcher County economy
4.7%
unemployment, Aug 2026
5.6% the month before
7,306
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
21,146
people in Letcher County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$40,501
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
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 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.