El Cajon, CA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in El Cajon

• Inside Sales RepresentativeITT Inc. - English US
• Associate Engineer - Control SystemsCity of San Diego
• Inside Sales Representative I Sales - Inside SalesBuilders FirstSource
• Vice President, InstructionGrossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District
• Quality Assurance/Quality Control ManagerLeidos
• General Manager of QSRGecko Hospitality
• General ManagerGecko Hospitality
• Manufacturing EngineerPrecision Metal Products
• Construction Project ManagerDN Tanks
• Inside Sales RepresentativeITT Motion Technologies

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Employers hiring most in El Cajon

1. Emcor9 open roles
2. Gecko Hospitality2 open roles
3. Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District2 open roles
4. Adecco1 open role
5. Adecco US1 open role
6. Ametek Inc/1 open role
7. Builders FirstSource1 open role
8. City of San Diego1 open role
9. Country Hills Post Acute1 open role
10. DN Tanks1 open role

El Cajon layoffs

No layoff notices naming El Cajon 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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Colleges in El Cajon

San Diego 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 0.9% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 0.6% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.7%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+37,066 jobs), hotels & food (+6,464 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−9,391 jobs), professional & technical (−8,649 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in El Cajon. Each link goes to the publisher.

• San Diego's Award-Winning Mostra Coffee Faces Eviction, Debt Lawsuits And State Wage Claims Amid Closure Questionssandiegoville · Nov 1, 2026
• ServiceNow cuts San Diego sales jobs in third round of layoffs this yearThe San Diego Union-Tribune · Oct 19, 2026
• California health care giant plans mass layoffs across the stateWhen In Your State USA on MSN · Oct 7, 2026
• Kaiser Permanente to lay off 147 employees in California, most in San DiegoFOX 5 San Diego on MSN · Oct 1, 2026

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Workforce development and job centers

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

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• San Diego Workforce Development Board

  San Diego

• East County Career Center

  El Cajon · Affiliate · 619-319-9675

  Monday - Friday 8:00am- 5:00pm

San Diego County economy

• 4.7%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.9% the month before

• 1,656,661

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 3,282,782

  people in San Diego County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $102,285

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 47%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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