Alturas, CA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- FUL - Rangeland Management Specialist (GS-7/9)Bureau of Land Management
- Rangeland Management Specialist (GS-7/11)Bureau of Land Management
- Director of Nursing - Full-TimeThe Staff Pad
Employers hiring most in Alturas
- Bureau of Land Management2 open roles
- The Staff Pad1 open role
Alturas layoffs
No layoff notices naming Alturas 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.
Modoc County outlook: Cooling
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs down 1.3% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 2.9% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 6.1%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Alturas. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Road closures in Chico after crash knocks down power linesKRCR News Channel 7 on MSN · Oct 7, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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- Northern Rural Training Employment Workforce Development Board
Butte, Del Norte, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, Trinity
Alliance For Workforce Development, Inc. Modoc
Alturas · Comprehensive
Monday-Thursday 9am-4pm Closed 12 noon - 1pm
Modoc County economy
6.1%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.9% the month before
3,091
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
8,646
people in Modoc County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$56,648
median household income
Source: Census ACS
46%
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 California’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. California unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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