Wakefield, MA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Primary Care Regional Medical DirectorTufts Medicine Care AT Home
- Attorney/LawyerRobert Half
- Privacy DirectorVeracross
- Senior Director, Global Sales DevelopmentVeracross
- Growth Account Executive, Business OfficeVeracross
- Account ExecutiveVeracross
- Sales Development RepresentativeVeracross
- Director, Analytic ConsultingEpsilon
- Construction Project ManagerDN.com
- Project EngineerDN Tanks
Employers hiring most in Wakefield
- Veracross5 open roles
- Odyssey Systems Consulting3 open roles
- Sentinel Group3 open roles
- TÜV SÜD3 open roles
- Curaleaf Holdings2 open roles
- Venturefizz Product Management Community2 open roles
- Bridgewell1 open role
- CyberCoders1 open role
- Cyfle1 open role
- DN Tanks1 open role
Wakefield layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Wakefield 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 Wakefield. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- MassHire Greater Lowell Workforce Board
Towns: Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Lowell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford
- MassHire North Central Workforce Board
Towns: Ashburnham, Ashby, Ayer, Barre, Berlin, Bolton, Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Groton, Harvard, Hubbardston, Lancaster, Leominster, Lunenburg, Pepperell, Princeton, Shirley, Sterling, Templeton, Townsend, Westminster, Winchendon
- Metro North Regional Employment Board
Towns: Arlington, Belmont, Burlington, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Melrose, North Reading, Reading, Revere, Somerville, Stoneham, Wakefield, Watertown, Wilmington, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn
- Metro South/West Workforce Board, Inc.
Towns: Acton, Ashland, Bedford, Bellingham, Boxborough, Brookline, Canton, Carlisle, Concord, Dedham, Dover, Foxborough, Framingham, Franklin, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Marlborough, Maynard, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Natick, Needham, Newton, Norfolk, Norwood, Plainville, Sharon, Sherborn, Southborough, Stow, Sudbury, Walpole, Waltham, Wayland, Wellesley, Weston, Westwood, Wrentham
Middlesex County economy
4.0%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.3% the month before
937,295
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
1,622,896
people in Middlesex County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$126,779
median household income
Source: Census ACS
61%
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.