Athens, TX jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Athens
- Lean Process EngineerSchneider Electric
- Staff AccountantArgon Medical Devices
Employers hiring most in Athens
- Argon Medical Devices1 open role
- Schneider Electric1 open role
Athens layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Athens in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Athens. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- East Texas Workforce Development Board
Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Marion, Panola, Rains, Rusk, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood
Workforce Solutions East Texas - Athens
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Henderson County economy
4.9%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.9% the month before
37,890
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
83,658
people in Henderson County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$63,955
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from Texas’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.