Bloomington, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Manager - Mental Health ServicesCarle West Physician Group
- Lead Software EngineerState Farm
- Mid-Level/Lead Software Engineer (ServiceNow Developer)-HYBRIDState Farm
- Senior P&C Actuarial Analyst – Sharing EconomyState Farm
- Fullstack Engineer (AWS)State Farm
- REMOTE - Lead MLOps Engineer (Databricks)State Farm
- Lead Software Engineer: ServiceNow & GenAI–Now Assist (HYBRID)State Farm
- Claim Team Manager - Auto/Fire - HybridState Farm
- In-House Technology CounselState Farm
- In-House Life Insurance and Life Claims Regulatory CounselState Farm
Employers hiring most in Bloomington
- State Farm27 open roles
- Growmark9 open roles
- Country Financial5 open roles
- Rollins3 open roles
- Acturhire2 open roles
- Commerce Bank2 open roles
- Holder Construction2 open roles
- Human Capital Ventures2 open roles
- Albertsons Companies1 open role
- Auto People1 open role
Bloomington layoffs
No layoff notices naming Bloomington 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.
Colleges in Bloomington
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Illinois Wesleyan University | Private non-profit 4-year | 1,000–4,999 |
McLean 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 2.6% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 0.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.3%, down 0.6 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,805 jobs), hotels & food (+517 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−840 jobs), real estate (−363 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Bloomington. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
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McLean County economy
3.3%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.9% the month before
92,333
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
170,882
people in McLean County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$78,329
median household income
Source: Census ACS
47%
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 Illinois’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. Illinois unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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