Seaside, CA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Director of Human ResourcesChartwell School
- PROGRAM ANALYST JobsClearanceJobs
Employers hiring most in Seaside
- Chartwell School1 open role
- ClearanceJobs1 open role
Largest employers headquartered in Seaside
- California State University, Monterey Bay1,001–5,000 employees
Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.
Seaside layoffs
No layoff notices naming Seaside 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.
Colleges in Seaside
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| California State University-Monterey Bay | Public 4-year | 5,000–9,999 |
Monterey County outlook: Cooling
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs down 1.7% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 1.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 5.5%, unchanged from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+3,360 jobs), construction (+970 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: agriculture (−5,991 jobs), management of companies (−999 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Seaside. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Funding cuts to medical care signal a tenuous future for local patients and hospitals.Monterey County NOW · Oct 29, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Seaside. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
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Monterey County Satellite AJCC
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Monterey County economy
5.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.5% the month before
227,565
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
435,834
people in Monterey County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$94,486
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from California’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. California unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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