Ponca City, OK jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Specialist III, Electrical, Ponca City RefineryPhillips 66
- Chief Nursing OfficerConfidential
- Plant Manager - Ponca City, OKAir Distribution
- Plant ManagerActalent
- Process EngineerContinental Carbon
- Account Executive, Home HealthUnitedhealth Group
- DLO Hospital Lab ManagerQuest Diagnostics
Employers hiring most in Ponca City
- Actalent1 open role
- Air Distribution1 open role
- Confidential1 open role
- Continental Carbon1 open role
- Phillips 661 open role
- Quest Diagnostics1 open role
- Unitedhealth Group1 open role
Ponca City layoffs
No layoff notices naming Ponca City in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Kay 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 0.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 0.3% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.8%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Ponca City. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Thunder starters Jalen Williams, Cason Wallace set for extended injury layoffsGeo Super · Oct 27, 2026
- Crumbl locations have continued to close, but not in Oklahoma CityThe Oklahoman on MSN · Oct 19, 2026
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- Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
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Workforce development and job centers
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Laid off in Oklahoma? How to file for unemployment in Oklahoma (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Oklahoma’s Workforce Board
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Kay County economy
3.8%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.6% the month before
19,692
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
43,731
people in Kay County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$56,673
median household income
Source: Census ACS
28%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from Oklahoma’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. Oklahoma unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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