Kansas City, MO jobs, layoffs and employers
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Jobs in Kansas City
- Executive Director, QualityElanco
- National Design Director - Sports ArchitectureHNTB Companies
- Associate Director, Field Medical Affairs - Neurology (Mountain West)Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
- Service Manager - Kansas City Rebuild CenterFoley Equipment
- Deputy Judicial Administrative Assistant - Division 2716th Judicial Circuit of Missouri
- Associate Quality EngineerVizient
- Director of Lower SchoolThe Barstow School
- Sales Development Representative (SDR)Numa
- Salesforce Enterprise ArchitectSonsoft
- Project CoordinatorLockton
Employers hiring most in Kansas City
- JE Dunn Construction54 open roles
- Catalent Pharma Solutions32 open roles
- Commerce Bank19 open roles
- UMB Financial18 open roles
- Children's Mercy Kansas City14 open roles
- Barkley13 open roles
- GXO Logistics9 open roles
- HNTB9 open roles
- Tenex.ai9 open roles
- Cboe Global Markets7 open roles
Largest employers headquartered in Kansas City
- H&R Block1,001–5,000 employees
Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.
Kansas City layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Kansas City in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Where Kansas City ranks
Jackson County outlook: Steady
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 1.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 2.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.3%, down 0.4 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+5,051 jobs), construction (+2,889 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−2,022 jobs), professional & technical (−2,007 jobs)
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Jackson County economy
3.8%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.4% the month before
393,706
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
717,021
people in Jackson County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$67,178
median household income
Source: Census ACS
40%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
More cities in Jackson County
- Lee's Summit37 jobs
- Blue Springs15 jobs
- Grandview9 jobs
- Grain Valley4 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from Missouri’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.
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