Fort Walton Beach, FL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Operations ManagerUlta Beauty
- Assistant Site ManagerCaliber Car Wash
- Software QA Analyst II - Hybrid & Impactful TestingAutomatic Data Processing
- Territory Sales RepresentativeHerc Rentals
- Field Sales RepresentativeAT&T
- Principal Technical Program ManagerClarity Innovations
- Principal Solutions ArchitectureClarity Innovations
- Regional Sales ManagerBarksdale Resources
- Executive Director, Emergency Medicine ResidencyThe Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Lead CFD Engineer - Weapon PerformanceZone 5 Technologies
Employers hiring most in Fort Walton Beach
- BAE Systems9 open roles
- Zone 5 Technologies9 open roles
- Applied Intuition5 open roles
- Crane3 open roles
- Barksdale Resources2 open roles
- Clarity Innovations2 open roles
- SURVICE Engineering2 open roles
- 2 Circle1 open role
- AT&T1 open role
- Automatic Data Processing1 open role
Fort Walton Beach layoffs
1
Layoff notices, last 12 months
53
workers named
A floor: states may leave out counts
1
employer
| Notice date | Employer | City or county | Workers | Type | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MV Transportation, Inc. | FORT WALTON BEACH | 53 | — | State record |
Okaloosa 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 0.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 4.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.1%, unchanged from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+809 jobs), professional & technical (+433 jobs)
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Okaloosa County economy
4.1%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
100,773
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
214,281
people in Okaloosa County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$79,097
median household income
Source: Census ACS
41%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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