Panama City, FL jobs, layoffs and employers

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Show me jobs near meJobs in Panama City
- Information Security Analyst JobsClearanceJobs
- Chief Nursing Officer/Nurse ExecutiveCor-Tec Solutions
- Cost AccountantEBSCO Information Services
- Project AnalystOceaneering International
- General Manager, OperationsOceaneering International
- Project Engineer IIOceaneering International
- Emergency and Critical Care Nurse DirectorAscension Calumet Hospital
- Inpatient Rehabilitation ManagerAscension Calumet Hospital
- Interim Emergency Room RN DirectorAscension Health Alliance
- Office Operations Assistant Primary Care FloatAscension Seton
Employers hiring most in Panama City
- Eastern Shipbuilding Group6 open roles
- Dewberry5 open roles
- State of Florida4 open roles
- Ascension Calumet Hospital3 open roles
- ATR - Arena Technical Resources3 open roles
- Oceaneering International3 open roles
- Aecom2 open roles
- Ascension Health Alliance1 open role
- Ascension Seton1 open role
- Builders FirstSource1 open role
Panama City layoffs
No layoff notices naming Panama City 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.
Bay County outlook: Building
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 7.0% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 17.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.2%, up 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: hotels & food (+1,492 jobs), health care (+858 jobs)
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Bay County economy
4.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
95,264
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
181,368
people in Bay County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$70,188
median household income
Source: Census ACS
38%
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 Florida’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. Florida unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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