Newport, TN jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Newport

• Client Service Associate Flexible Schedule & GrowthJackson Hewitt Tax Service
• Manufacturing EngineerSterling Engineering
• General Manager (Site Leader)Tidal Wave
• Quality EngineerSterling Engineering
• Manufacturing EngineerSterling Engineering
• Manufacturing EngineerDavron

Search all jobs in Newport

Employers hiring most in Newport

1. Sterling Engineering3 open roles
2. Davron1 open role
3. Jackson Hewitt Tax Service1 open role
4. Tidal Wave1 open role

Newport layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Newport 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

Workforce development and job centers

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

• East Tennessee Workforce Development Board

  Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier, Union

Cocke County economy

• 4.3%

  unemployment, Aug 2026

  4.6% the month before

• 14,801

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 36,503

  people in Cocke County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $48,416

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 25%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS