Mississippi State, MS jobs, layoffs and employers
Mississippi State layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Mississippi State in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Colleges in Mississippi State
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Mississippi State University | Public 4-year | 20,000+ |
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Mississippi State. 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
Oktibbeha County economy
3.4%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.6% the month before
21,941
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
51,473
people in Oktibbeha County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$43,482
median household income
Source: Census ACS
40%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
More cities in Oktibbeha County
- Starkville13 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: 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.