Oroville, CA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Quality Assurance (QA) ManagerPacific Coast Producers
Employers hiring most in Oroville
- Pacific Coast Producers1 open role
Oroville layoffs
No layoff notices naming Oroville 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.
Butte 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 2.0% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 0.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 5.9%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,316 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: retail (−1,113 jobs), manufacturing (−709 jobs)
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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.-Oroville
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Butte County economy
5.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
6.1% the month before
90,577
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
209,470
people in Butte County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$68,574
median household income
Source: Census ACS
40%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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