Sawyer County, WI jobs, unemployment and layoffs
Sawyer County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Aug 2026
3.1% the month before
8,960
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
18,243
people in Sawyer County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$59,055
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
Sawyer County layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Sawyer County in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Employers hiring most in Sawyer County
Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.
- Johnson Bank3 open roles
- AMN Healthcare Leadership Solutions | B.E. Smith1 open role
- AMN Healthcare, Executive & Physician Leadership Solutions1 open role
- Arclin1 open role
- Confidential1 open role
- Tamarack Health1 open role
- Trinity Clinics AMN1 open role
Colleges in Sawyer County
| College | City | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University | Hayward | Public 4-year | Under 1,000 |
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Sawyer County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment Board
Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Iron, Price, Rusk, Sawyer, Taylor, Washburn
Cities in Sawyer County
- Hayward9 jobs
Other Wisconsin counties
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See your options after a layoffSources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); WARN notices from Wisconsin’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.