Jackson, GA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- HR Generalist - DC (Jackson)Dollar General
- Development Authority: Executive DirectorButts County Georgia
- Rehab Clinic Manager / Physical TherapyEmory University
- Production ManagerLiberty Tire Recycling
- Data Center Controls Engineer, Jackson, GaAmazon
Employers hiring most in Jackson
- Amazon1 open role
- Butts County Georgia1 open role
- Dollar General1 open role
- Emory University1 open role
- Liberty Tire Recycling1 open role
Jackson layoffs
No layoff notices naming Jackson 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.
Butts 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 up 1.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 6.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, up 0.4 points from a year ago
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Workforce development and job centers
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Butts, Carroll, Coweta, Heard, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, Troup, Upson
Butts County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.2% the month before
11,551
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
26,074
people in Butts County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$59,221
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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