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Brea, CA jobs, layoffs and employers

73 open professional jobs in Brea. Brea is in Orange County.

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Jobs in Brea

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Employers hiring most in Brea

  1. Emeraldtechnologies8 open roles
  2. Howmet Aerospace6 open roles
  3. Air Treatment5 open roles
  4. Karman Sd4 open roles
  5. Applied Composites3 open roles
  6. Crawford & Company3 open roles
  7. Hinderliter de Llamas & Associates2 open roles
  8. Kirkhill2 open roles
  9. Mercury General2 open roles
  10. SoCal Lean Network2 open roles

Brea layoffs

No layoff notices naming Brea 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.

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Where Brea ranks

Where Brea placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.

November 2026

Orange 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 up 1.1% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population down 1.2% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 4.3%, down 0.1 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+30,241 jobs), arts & recreation (+9,954 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−17,259 jobs), finance & insurance (−9,879 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Brea. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in California? How to file for unemployment in California (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

  • Orange County Workforce Solutions Center - Brea

    Brea · Comprehensive · 866-500-6587

    Monday- Friday 9am-6pm Saturday 9am-1pm - EDD Hours-Monday -Friday 8am-5pm

Orange County economy

  • 4.3%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    4.4% the month before

  • 1,615,890

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 3,164,063

    people in Orange County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $113,702

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 46%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: 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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