Oakdale, CA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Digital Marketing ManagerSconza Candy
- Director of Marketing & Brand StrategyTalent Group
- Finance Director – Oakdale, CARalph Andersen & Associates
- Agriculture Commercial Loan UnderwriterOak Valley Community Bank
- Environmental, Health and Safety Manager (Food Manufacturing)Conagra Brands
- Production Supervisor - 3rd ShiftConagra Brands
- Project EngineerConagra Brands
- Environmental, Health and Safety Manager (Food Manufacturing)Rivalia Chemical
- Office ManagerBbsi
Employers hiring most in Oakdale
- Conagra Brands3 open roles
- Bbsi1 open role
- Oak Valley Community Bank1 open role
- Ralph Andersen & Associates1 open role
- Rivalia Chemical1 open role
- Sconza Candy1 open role
- Talent Group1 open role
Oakdale layoffs
No layoff notices naming Oakdale 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.
Stanislaus 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 0.3% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 0.7% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 6.6%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+3,916 jobs), professional & technical (+341 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: hotels & food (−1,109 jobs), admin & staffing (−1,077 jobs)
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Stanislaus County economy
6.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
6.8% the month before
255,342
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
552,250
people in Stanislaus County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$79,661
median household income
Source: Census ACS
30%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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