Columbus, MS jobs, layoffs and employers

30 open professional jobs in Columbus. Columbus is in Lowndes County.

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Employers hiring most in Columbus

  1. Paccar15 open roles
  2. ABB3 open roles
  3. Steel Dynamics3 open roles
  4. TEKsystems3 open roles
  5. Air Education and Training Command1 open role
  6. CRH Public1 open role
  7. Dutch Lubricants1 open role
  8. EquipmentShare1 open role
  9. EquipmentShare.com1 open role
  10. ISHR1 open role

Columbus layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Columbus in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Colleges in Columbus

Colleges in Columbus
CollegeTypeStudents
Mississippi University for WomenPublic 4-year1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Columbus. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

  • Mississippi Partnership Workforce Investment Area

    Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, De Soto, Grenada, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, Winston, Yalobusha

Lowndes County economy

  • 3.6%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.3% the month before

  • 24,867

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 58,187

    people in Lowndes County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $54,460

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 32%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: WARN 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.