Wilson, NC jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Wilson
- Purchasing Assistant IIIKelly Services
- Client Service AssociateJackson Hewitt
- Senior Manager, IT Manufacturing Site LeadBrighter Signals
- Senior MSAT Manager - Biotherapeutics Drug Product (On-Site, Wilson)Johnson & Johnson
- Portfolio Manager - Wilson, NCFirst Bank & Trust Company
- Senior Process EngineerBridgestone
- Mechanical Engineer II - Detection Design (Onsite)Raytheon
- Senior Process Engineer - Large MoleculeSource One Technical Solutions
- Senior Process Engineer - Sterile InjectablesBioSpear Consulting Group
- Sr Materials & Process EngineerRaytheon
Employers hiring most in Wilson
- Philip Morris International6 open roles
- RTX4 open roles
- Source One Technical Solutions4 open roles
- LifePoint Health3 open roles
- Raytheon3 open roles
- Reckitt Benckiser Group3 open roles
- Arcadis2 open roles
- BioSpear Consulting Group2 open roles
- Commissioning Partners2 open roles
- Reckitt2 open roles
Wilson layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Wilson 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 Wilson
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Barton College | Private nonprofit 4-year | 1,000–4,999 |
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Wilson. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- Turning Point Workforce Development Board
Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton, Wilson
Wilson Workforce Center
Wilson · Affiliate · 252-246-1298
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
Wilson County economy
5.0%
unemployment, Aug 2026
5.8% the month before
33,798
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
78,648
people in Wilson County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$51,381
median household income
Source: Census ACS
37%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
Laid off or looking for work in Wilson?
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from North Carolina’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.