Brandon, MS jobs, layoffs and employers
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Show me jobs near meJobs in Brandon
- Outside Sales RepresentativeUS LBM
- Relationship Banker - Team Lead - Crossgates BranchRegions Financial
- Cafeteria Manager (26-27 SY)Rankin County School District
Employers hiring most in Brandon
- Rankin County School District1 open role
- Regions Financial1 open role
- US LBM1 open role
Brandon layoffs
No layoff notices naming Brandon 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.
Rankin 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 5.7% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.2% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.5%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,329 jobs), hotels & food (+819 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−761 jobs), admin & staffing (−314 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Brandon. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
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Rankin County economy
2.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
2.7% the month before
80,125
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
158,218
people in Rankin County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$77,454
median household income
Source: Census ACS
43%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from Mississippi’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. Mississippi unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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