Porterville, CA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Project EngineerTutor Perini
- FAMILY PRACTICE MEDICAL DIRECTORTule River Indian Health Center
- Payroll Specialist IEagle Mountain Casino
- Senior Staff AccountantCreative Financial Staffing
- ControllerCreative Financial Staffing
- Director of Financial Planning & AnalysisCreative Financial Staffing
- Senior AccountantCreative Financial Staffing
- *$ CLINICAL NUTRITION MANAGER - Dietary - Full Time - DaysSierra View Medical Center
- Outside Sales Representative (Bilingual Spanish)Charter Communications
Employers hiring most in Porterville
- Creative Financial Staffing4 open roles
- Charter Communications1 open role
- Eagle Mountain Casino1 open role
- Sierra View Medical Center1 open role
- Tule River Indian Health Center1 open role
- Tutor Perini1 open role
Porterville layoffs
No layoff notices naming Porterville 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.
Tulare 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 1.6% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 2.4% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 9.8%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+3,945 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: agriculture (−4,392 jobs), manufacturing (−1,129 jobs)
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Tulare County Employment Connection - Porterville
Porterville · Comprehensive · 559-788-1400
Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm
Tulare County economy
9.8%
unemployment, Sep 2026
10.0% the month before
217,383
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
475,774
people in Tulare County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$69,489
median household income
Source: Census ACS
27%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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