Amherst, NY jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Amherst
- Industrial Business Development ManagerTrane Technologies
- MTA USA Business Development ManagerTrane Technologies
- Consumer Credit Risk Analyst IIIKeyBank National Association
- Assistant Vice President, InfrastructureUniversity at Buffalo
- Quality Assurance ManagerFrontier Science & Technology Research
- Facilities Operations Manager - Regulated Biomed LabsAmerican Red Cross
- Experienced Accountant - Senior / SupervisorSbfrpartners
- Sales Representative I - Aggregates, Asphalt, Ready-MixAmrize
- General ManagerChipotle Mexican Grill
- Clinical ManagerUnitedhealth Group
Employers hiring most in Amherst
- KeyBank4 open roles
- Frontier Science And Technology Research Foundation3 open roles
- Sbfrpartners2 open roles
- Trane Technologies2 open roles
- American Red Cross1 open role
- Amrize1 open role
- At Home1 open role
- Brookdale Senior Living1 open role
- Chipotle Mexican Grill1 open role
- CVS HEALTH1 open role
Amherst layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Amherst 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 Amherst
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Daemen University | Private nonprofit 4-year | 1,000–4,999 |
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Amherst. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Erie County economy
4.4%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.3% the month before
469,976
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
950,044
people in Erie County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$71,175
median household income
Source: Census ACS
44%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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- Grand Island13 jobs
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- Tonawanda8 jobs
- Depew8 jobs
- Hamburg5 jobs
- Elma5 jobs
- Alden4 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from New York’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.