Ellicott City, MD jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Senior/Lead Electrical EngineerMerrick Medical Center
- Senior Mechanical EngineerMerrick Medical Center
- Senior System Engineer Msp Bw3546Bowman Williams
- Senior System Engineer L3 Managed Services Bw9488Bowman Williams
- Agent Experience ManagerCompass
- It System Administrator Tier Ii Bw4006Bowman Williams
- Structural Engineer IIMerrick Medical Center
- Associate AI/ML Engineer4A-Consulting
- Office Coordinator-D82Albertsons Companies
- Customer Success ManagerCompass
Employers hiring most in Ellicott City
- Bowman Williams3 open roles
- Merrick Medical Center3 open roles
- Compass2 open roles
- 4A-Consulting1 open role
- Albertsons Companies1 open role
- DCCA1 open role
- FirstService Residential1 open role
- Five Star Bank1 open role
- Lucky Strike Entertainment1 open role
- Matlock Group1 open role
Ellicott City layoffs
No layoff notices naming Ellicott City in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Howard County outlook: Building
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 4.2% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 1.9% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.0%, down 0.9 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,694 jobs), professional & technical (+1,061 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: information (−825 jobs), manufacturing (−661 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Ellicott City. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Provider Partners Management Services To Lay Off 39 Employees in MarylandLatestLY · Oct 11, 2026
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Howard County economy
3.0%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.9% the month before
185,084
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
333,916
people in Howard County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$146,982
median household income
Source: Census ACS
66%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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