Beaufort County, SC jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Beaufort County’s unemployment rate is 4.0%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 37 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Beaufort County economy

4.0%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.6% the month before
88,591
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
192,123
people in Beaufort County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$84,819
median household income
Source: Census ACS
39%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Beaufort County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Beaufort County in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

All layoff notices in the state

Employers hiring most in Beaufort County

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

Adams Outdoor Advertising2 open roles
Diamondresorts2 open roles
GPAC2 open roles
Spinnaker Resorts2 open roles
Upstream Rehabilitation2 open roles
Vaden Nissan of Hilton Head2 open roles
ABM Industries1 open role
Apex Ridge Logistics1 open role
Beaufort Memorial Hospital1 open role
Brightbee1 open role

Colleges in Beaufort County

Colleges in Beaufort County
College	City	Type	Students
University of South Carolina Beaufort	Bluffton	Public 4-year	1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Beaufort County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Low Country Workforce Board
Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper

Beaufort Comprehensive Center
Beaufort · Comprehensive · 843-524-3351
Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Cities in Beaufort County

Other South Carolina counties

All of South Carolina

Laid off or looking for work in Beaufort County?

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See your options after a layoff

Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); WARN notices from South Carolina’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.