Santa Monica, CA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Santa Monica

• Quality Assurance Specialist IIIGilead Sciences
• Classified IT Network Engineer (SM)Rand
• Executive Director, Security & Classified Operations and Chief Security OfficerRAND
• Alternate Facility Security Officer (FSO)Rand
• Director of Nursing - Cath LabProvidence
• Creative Director, Filmmaker for Brand StorytellingRoku
• Director of Product Management, SearchRoku
• Senior Data ScientistRoku
• Sr. Commerce Platform ManagerRoku
• Senior Product Manager, Brand Outcomes, Video and Native AdvertisingRoku

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Employers hiring most in Santa Monica

1. Amazon41 open roles
2. Gilead Sciences15 open roles
3. Snap14 open roles
4. FIGS13 open roles
5. ZipRecruiter13 open roles
6. Activision Blizzard11 open roles
7. Roku11 open roles
8. Tapcart Com10 open roles
9. Ziprecruiter10 open roles
10. Axle Health8 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in Santa Monica

• Snap5,001–20,000 employees

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Santa Monica layoffs

No layoff notices naming Santa Monica 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 Santa Monica

Conferences in Santa Monica

Industry conferences and trade shows held in Santa Monica. 1 with dates announced.

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Los Angeles 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 0.2% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 3.0% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.5%, down 1.4 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+108,368 jobs), private education (+15,141 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: information (−61,254 jobs), manufacturing (−19,163 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

• Ellison-Backed Medical Institute in LA Plans LayoffsMyNewsLA.com · Nov 12, 2026
• Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison’s medical institute set for mass layoffs in Los AngelesNew York Post on MSN · Nov 12, 2026
• Cancer institute backed by Larry Ellison plans major layoffs in Los AngelesLos Angeles Times on MSN · Nov 12, 2026
• Overturned big rig spills bales of hay all over 605 Freeway in Cerritos, causing hourslong closureABC7 KABC on MSN · Nov 6, 2026
• As Disney Preps Massive Layoffs, Former CEO Bob Iger Tries to Get Richer from LA LakersThat Park Place · Nov 4, 2026
• Disney Just Axed Hundreds of the Creative Masterminds Behind its Theme ParksYahoo Finance · Oct 31, 2026
• 159 layoffs are from Walt Disney Imagineering in CaliforniaPirates & Princesses on MSN · Oct 30, 2026
• State Filing Reveals Disney Cutting Walt Disney Imagineering Department, Hitting Heart of the ParksInside the Magic · Oct 30, 2026

Learn and get funded in Santa Monica

• Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
• Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

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

Laid off in California? How to file for unemployment in California (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

• City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board

  City: Los Angeles

• Foothill Workforce Development Board

  Cities: Arcadia, Duarte, Monrovia, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, South Pasadena

• Innovation Network

  Cities: Long Beach, Signal Hill

• Los Angeles County Workforce Development Board

  Los Angeles

• SELACO WDB Southeast Los Angeles County Workforce Development Board

  Cities: Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Downey, Lakewood, Norwalk

• South Bay Workforce Development Board

  Cities: Alondra Park, Carson, Del Aire, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, Lomita, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance

• Verdugo Workforce Development Board

  Cities: Burbank, Glendale, La Canada Flintridge

Los Angeles County economy

• 4.5%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  5.9% the month before

• 5,031,013

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 9,848,406

  people in Los Angeles County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $87,760

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 41%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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