Brighton, CO jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Benefits SpecialistAdams 12 Five Star Schools
- Director of Parks, Open Space & Cultural ArtsAdams County Government
- Transportation Delivery Operations Manager, 1st ShiftStaples
- RN/LPN Wellness DirectorBrookdale Senior Living
- Business development/Sales/Marketing Associate 11ATN Healthcare
- Senior Project Manager, Special Projects - Power DistributionCrusoe
- Director, Accounting – ManufacturingCrusoe
- Senior Manager, QMS - ManufacturingCrusoe
- Senior Staff Project Manager, SparkCrusoe
- Senior Supplier Quality Engineer - ManufacturingCrusoe
Employers hiring most in Brighton
- Crusoe5 open roles
- Vestas Wind Systems A/S3 open roles
- Adams 12 Five Star Schools1 open role
- Adams County Government1 open role
- Air Squared Manufacturing1 open role
- Ascent Solar Technologies1 open role
- ATN Healthcare1 open role
- Brookdale Senior Living1 open role
- CyberCore Systems1 open role
- Davita1 open role
Brighton layoffs
No layoff notices naming Brighton 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.
Adams 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 5.2% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 6.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.6%, up 0.6 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+5,824 jobs), construction (+1,788 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−1,024 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Brighton. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Colorado? How to file for unemployment in Colorado (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
Adams County Workforce & Business Center
Brighton · Affiliate · 720-523-6900
Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 12:00pm and 1:00pm- 4:30pm
Adams County economy
4.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.0% the month before
298,768
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
524,408
people in Adams County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$91,387
median household income
Source: Census ACS
35%
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 Colorado’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. Colorado unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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