Punta Gorda, FL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Inside Sales Representative I Inside SalesBuilders FirstSource
- Assistant Guest Services ManagerPyramid Global Hospitality
- Outside Sales Rep IIBuilders FirstSource
- Outside Sales Representative IIBuilders FirstSource
- Inside Sales Representative IBuilders FirstSource
- High School Student Life & Safety DeanBabcock Neighborhood School
- Senior Portfolio ManagerAutomatic Data Processing
- Civil Project EngineerSmith Seckman Reid
- Senior Living Sales ManagerBrookdale Senior Living
- Sales Representative - No Experience RequiredVioland
Employers hiring most in Punta Gorda
- Builders FirstSource4 open roles
- Pyramid Global Hospitality2 open roles
- Automatic Data Processing1 open role
- Babcock Neighborhood School1 open role
- Brookdale Senior Living1 open role
- Smith Seckman Reid1 open role
- Violand1 open role
Punta Gorda layoffs
No layoff notices naming Punta Gorda 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.
Charlotte 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 10.5% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 15.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 5.6%, up 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: hotels & food (+1,776 jobs), health care (+1,151 jobs)
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Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Lee
Charlotte County economy
5.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.5% the month before
77,807
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
195,083
people in Charlotte County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$66,154
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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