Kapolei, HI jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Kapolei

• Territory Sales - Field Sales Account Executive - SeniorCummins
• Graphic DesignerThe Art Source
• Project CoordinatorAir Treatment
• Junior Project Engineer Heavy Civil ConstructionGoodfellow Bros
• Front End ManagerAlbertsons Companies
• Outside Sales RepresentativeRollins
• Construction ManagerMastec
• Family/Juvenile Law Attorney II Research & CounselHawaii DOT
• Project Engineer - Hawaii Heavy Civil ConstructionGoodfellow Bros
• Project EngineerOceanic Companies

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Employers hiring most in Kapolei

1. BerryDunn4 open roles
2. Commercial Metals2 open roles
3. Goodfellow Bros2 open roles
4. Honsador Holdings2 open roles
5. Air Treatment1 open role
6. Albertsons Companies1 open role
7. American Civil Constructors1 open role
8. Confidential1 open role
9. Cummins1 open role
10. Hawaii DOT1 open role

Kapolei layoffs

No layoff notices naming Kapolei 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.

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Colleges in Kapolei

Honolulu County outlook: Cooling

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

• Private-sector jobs up 3.5% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 2.3% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.0%, up 0.8 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: hotels & food (+5,298 jobs), health care (+3,009 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: finance & insurance (−749 jobs), management of companies (−649 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Kapolei. Each link goes to the publisher.

• Honolulu summit focuses on building AI-ready workforce for HawaiʻiMaui Now · Nov 7, 2026
• 13 Honolulu Star-Advertiser staff affected in recent round of layoffsKHON2 · Nov 3, 2026
• Off the news: Alaska Air layoffs hit dozens in HawaiiHonolulu Star-Advertiser · Nov 3, 2026

Learn and get funded in Kapolei

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• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
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• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Kapolei. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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• Oahu Workforce Development Board

  Honolulu

Honolulu County economy

• 3.0%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  2.2% the month before

• 484,553

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 1,003,666

  people in Honolulu County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $104,264

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 41%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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