Charleston, TN jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Area Manager IIAmazon
- Sr. Operations ManagerAmazon
- General Manager in Training - RetailLove's Travel Stops
Employers hiring most in Charleston
- Amazon2 open roles
- Love's Travel Stops1 open role
Charleston layoffs
No layoff notices naming Charleston 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.
Bradley 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 down 7.2% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 6.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−1,643 jobs), manufacturing (−1,281 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Charleston. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Tennessee? How to file for unemployment in Tennessee (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Southeast Tennessee Workforce Development Board
Bledsoe, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Polk, Rhea, Sequatchie
Bradley County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.9% the month before
49,222
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
109,743
people in Bradley County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$63,789
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
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 Tennessee’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. Tennessee unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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