Cedar City, UT jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Cedar City

• Civil Project EngineerJones & DeMille Engineering
• Senior Design EngineerProfessional Recruiters
• Design EngineerProfessional Recruiters
• Assistant Community Manager- KensingtonPeak Living
• Senior Manufacturing EngineerKarman Sd
• Design Engineer IIIKarman Sd
• Operations ManagerKarman Sd
• Quality ManagerKarman Sd
• Development Engineer IIIKarman Sd
• General Manager in Training - RetailLove's Travel Stops

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Employers hiring most in Cedar City

1. Karman Sd5 open roles
2. Professional Recruiters2 open roles
3. Jones & DeMille Engineering1 open role
4. Love's Travel Stops1 open role
5. Peak Living1 open role

Cedar City layoffs

No layoff notices naming Cedar 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.

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Iron County outlook: Building

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

• Private-sector jobs up 12.4% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 16.4% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 2.9%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: construction (+988 jobs), manufacturing (+402 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Cedar City. Each link goes to the publisher.

• Helicopter wildlife sweep disrupts 3 Utah national parksTravelHost on MSN · Nov 8, 2026
• Utah County nonprofit to close Heber City food pantry; announces layoffsKSL · Oct 26, 2026
• ‘We need help’: Homeless cleanup nonprofit furloughs employees, faces full shutdownYahoo · Oct 23, 2026
• The Gambling Wire: Utah Sues Kalshi as Flutter Plans 1,400 Job CutsGambling Insider · Oct 21, 2026
• Are you giving taxpayers shares? — Tucker Carlson grills Kevin O'Leary over $15 billion Utah data center asking taxpayers to payBenzinga on MSN · Oct 20, 2026
• He lost his ghost-writing job. She was let go as an app designer. Here’s how they think Utah should protect workers and rein in AI.The Salt Lake Tribune on MSN · Oct 19, 2026
• As AI races forward, Utah researchers work to keep humans in controlKUTV on MSN · Oct 8, 2026

Learn and get funded in Cedar City

• Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
• Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

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

Laid off in Utah? How to file for unemployment in Utah (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

• Utah Workforce Development Board

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Iron County economy

• 2.9%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.1% the month before

• 33,738

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 60,201

  people in Iron County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $65,527

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 34%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS