Commerce, GA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Finance ManagerSK Battery America
- Sr. Safety and Health ManagerSK Battery America
- Electrode Process EngineerSK Battery America
- Utility Engineer (Electrical)SK Battery America
- Mechanical EngineerSK Battery America
- Safety EngineerSK Battery America
- Language Access & Workforce Development AssistantSK Battery America
Employers hiring most in Commerce
- SK Battery America7 open roles
Commerce layoffs
No layoff notices naming Commerce 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.
Jackson 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 down 6.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 29.3% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.2%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: manufacturing (+1,476 jobs), retail (+467 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−5,031 jobs), admin & staffing (−548 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Commerce. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Georgia? How to file for unemployment in Georgia (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Northeast Georgia Workforce Development Board
Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Jasper, Madison, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Walton
Jackson County economy
3.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.0% the month before
45,248
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
80,640
people in Jackson County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$85,012
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 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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