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DeForest, WI jobs, layoffs and employers

5 open professional jobs in DeForest. DeForest is in Dane County.

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Employers hiring most in DeForest

  1. Menasha2 open roles
  2. Fleet Farm1 open role
  3. Sonoco Products1 open role
  4. Thinking Ahead1 open role

DeForest layoffs

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

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Workforce development and job centers

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

Dane County economy

  • 2.9%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    2.6% the month before

  • 343,872

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 564,777

    people in Dane County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $88,108

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 55%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: WARN notices from Wisconsin’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.