Gloucester, MA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Part-Time Medical Director, Addiction Medicine & OBOTBayMark Health Services
- Chief Executive OfficerAmerican Fisheries Society (UK)
- Semiconductor Process Engineer SIMS & Metrology ExpertApplied Materials
- Management and Program AnalystUS Department of Commerce
- Process EngineerApplied Materials
- Account ExecutiveJuice Recruitment
- Digital Marketing AssociateHireClix
Employers hiring most in Gloucester
- Applied Materials2 open roles
- American Fisheries Society (UK)1 open role
- BayMark Health Services1 open role
- HireClix1 open role
- Juice Recruitment1 open role
- US Department of Commerce1 open role
Gloucester layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Gloucester 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 Gloucester. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- MassHire Merrimack Valley Workforce Board
Towns: Amesbury, Andover, Boxford, Georgetown, Groveland, Haverhill, Lawrence, Merrimac, Methuen, Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, Rowley, Salisbury, West Newbury
- MassHire-North Shore Workforce Board
Towns: Beverly, Danvers, Essex, Gloucester, Hamilton, Ipswich, Lynn, Lynnfield, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Middleton, Nahant, Peabody, Rockport, Salem, Saugus, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham
Essex County economy
4.6%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.8% the month before
442,473
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
807,258
people in Essex County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$99,431
median household income
Source: Census ACS
46%
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 Massachusetts’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.