Paragould, AR jobs, layoffs and employers
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Show me jobs near meJobs in Paragould
- Director of Rehabilitation - Inpatient Leadership & GrowthLifePoint Health
- Inside Sales Specialist – AutomotivePrysmian S.p.A.
- Sr. AccountantThe Greenbrier Companies
Employers hiring most in Paragould
- LifePoint Health1 open role
- Prysmian S.p.A.1 open role
- The Greenbrier Companies1 open role
Paragould layoffs
No layoff notices naming Paragould 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.
Colleges in Paragould
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Crowley's Ridge College | Private non-profit 4-year | Under 1,000 |
Greene 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 1.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.4% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.9%, down 0.6 points from a year ago
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−572 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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- Northeast Arkansas Workforce Development Board
Clay, Craighead, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Poinsett, Randolph
Arkansas Workforce Center at Paragould
Paragould · Affiliate · 870-236-8512
Monday - Friday, 8:00 A,M, to 4:30 P.M.
Greene County economy
3.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.5% the month before
19,610
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
46,182
people in Greene County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$56,793
median household income
Source: Census ACS
32%
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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