Wellton, AZ jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Ops Manager LandfillRepublic Services
Employers hiring most in Wellton
- Republic Services1 open role
Wellton layoffs
No layoff notices naming Wellton 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.
Yuma County outlook: Steady
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs down 0.7% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 9.2% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 14.5%, down 2.0 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+950 jobs), wholesale (+492 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−1,467 jobs), manufacturing (−542 jobs)
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Yuma County economy
14.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
16.5% the month before
101,479
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
207,685
people in Yuma County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$60,417
median household income
Source: Census ACS
28%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from Arizona’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. Arizona unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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