Cartersville, GA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- AVP Banking Center Manager (Branch Manager)Bank OZK
- Industrial Automation Engineer (Controls)Gerdau
- Commercial Contract SpecialistGerdau
- Industrial Health & Safety ManagerGerdau
- Environmental ManagerGerdau
- Category Manager - Indirect Materials or ServicesGerdau
- Senior Truss Designer84 Lumber
- Outside Sales Rep84 Lumber
- Components Office Coordinator84 Lumber
- ParalegalQ-Cells
Employers hiring most in Cartersville
- Gerdau6 open roles
- 84 Lumber3 open roles
- Black & Veatch2 open roles
- Chick-fil-A2 open roles
- Switch2 open roles
- Textron2 open roles
- AT&T1 open role
- Bank OZK1 open role
- Carlisle Companies1 open role
- Converge Medical Technology1 open role
Cartersville layoffs
No layoff notices naming Cartersville 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.
Bartow 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 11.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 10.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.3%, up 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: manufacturing (+1,467 jobs), construction (+643 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: retail (−366 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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Cartersville Career Center, Georgia Department of Labor
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Bartow County economy
3.3%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.2% the month before
58,476
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
111,153
people in Bartow County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$79,431
median household income
Source: Census ACS
32%
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 Georgia’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. Georgia unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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