Rancho Santa Margarita, CA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Rancho Santa Margarita

• Chief Operating OfficerOcean Estate Law, P.C.
• Director of Human ResourcesSanta Margarita Water District
• Assistant DirectorLearning Care Group
• Culinary Director, Senior Living Dining ExperienceKisco Senior Living
• Executive Director of Human Resources | Strategic People LeaderWendi Brown Creative Partners
• Director of OperationsSanta Margarita Water District
• Executive HR Director: Strategic Partner to the General ManagerSanta Margarita Water District
• Culinary Director, Senior Living Dining ExperienceKisco Senior Living
• Director of Human ResourcesInternational Public Management Association for Human Resour...
• Data Quality AnalystAmerican Statistical Association - ASA

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Employers hiring most in Rancho Santa Margarita

1. Santa Margarita Water District3 open roles
2. Kisco Senior Living2 open roles
3. Ocean Estate Law, P.C.2 open roles
4. American Statistical Association - ASA1 open role
5. International Public Management Association for Human Resour...1 open role
6. Learning Care Group1 open role
7. Wendi Brown Creative Partners1 open role

Rancho Santa Margarita layoffs

No layoff notices naming Rancho Santa Margarita 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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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

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  City: Anaheim

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  City: Santa Ana

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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