Venice, FL jobs, layoffs and employers

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Show me jobs near meJobs in Venice
- Director, Patient Care Services - Emergency Care ServicesSarasota Memorial Health Care System
- Hybrid B2B Wireless Sales Account Manager (Remote/Field)Wireless Zone
- Executive DirectorGreenbrier Senior Living
- Pharmacy Operations ManagerWalgreens
- Probate Paralegal 1Ledbetter Law Group
- Outside Sales RepresentativeRollins
- Account ExecutiveSkilled home healthcare services provider
- Probate Paralegal I Meaningful Legal ImpactLedbetter Law Group
- Inside Sales RepresentativeLKQ
- Tax Senior Manager/DirectorInnovative CPA Group
Employers hiring most in Venice
- Ledbetter Law Group3 open roles
- Diocese of Venice1 open role
- Greenbrier Senior Living1 open role
- Innovative CPA Group1 open role
- Ledbetter Cowan Law Group1 open role
- LKQ1 open role
- Rollins1 open role
- Sarasota Memorial Health Care System1 open role
- Skilled home healthcare services provider1 open role
- Violand1 open role
Venice layoffs
No layoff notices naming Venice 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.
Sarasota 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 7.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 10.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.7%, unchanged from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+4,613 jobs), retail (+2,974 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−857 jobs), admin & staffing (−556 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Venice. Each link goes to the publisher.
- How a 50-year Sarasota pet store ended up nearly emptySixers Wire · Oct 29, 2026
- Manatee steel plant to close, 55 job cuts plannedBusiness Observer · Oct 19, 2026
- Nebraska steel manufacturer to close Sarasota facility, lay off employeesThe Business Journals · Oct 19, 2026
- Sarasota recycling facility introduces AI sorting machineBay News 9 · Oct 13, 2026
- Downtown Sarasota restaurant fire prompts earlier-than-planned closingBusiness Observer · Oct 7, 2026
Learn and get funded in Venice
- Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
- Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
- Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
- Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Venice. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Florida? How to file for unemployment in Florida (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- CareerSource Suncoast
Manatee, Sarasota
Sarasota County economy
4.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.7% the month before
201,260
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
449,011
people in Sarasota County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$80,633
median household income
Source: Census ACS
40%
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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