Bentonville, AR jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Manager, Quality Assurance Laboratory TestingWalmart
- Senior Director, PeopleWalmart
- Senior Merchant - Networking and ConnectivityWalmart
- Director, Program Management (Exhibit Curation and Digital Experience– Walmart Museum)Walmart
- Distinguished, Technical Program ManagerWalmart
- Principal, Software EngineerWalmart
- Manager, Product MarketingWalmart
- Senior Manager, Automation Engineering - Real Time VisibilityWalmart
- Senior Manager, Real EstateWalmart
- Principal, Technical Program ManagerWalmart
Employers hiring most in Bentonville
- Walmart71 open roles
- Accenture7 open roles
- J M SMUCKER3 open roles
- Reckitt Benckiser Group3 open roles
- Software Technology3 open roles
- Walton Enterprises3 open roles
- Confidential2 open roles
- JRG Partners2 open roles
- Mars2 open roles
- Monster Energy Company2 open roles
Bentonville layoffs
No layoff notices naming Bentonville 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.
Benton 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 11.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 16.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.0%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,837 jobs), hotels & food (+2,472 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−943 jobs)
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- Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Bentonville. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Arkansas? How to file for unemployment in Arkansas (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Northwest Arkansas Workforce Development Board
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Benton County economy
3.0%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.3% the month before
176,262
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
294,541
people in Benton County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$89,879
median household income
Source: Census ACS
42%
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 Arkansas’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. Arkansas unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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