Joliet, IL jobs, layoffs and employers

61 open professional jobs in Joliet. Joliet is in Will County.

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Jobs in Joliet

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Employers hiring most in Joliet

  1. Amazon7 open roles
  2. Ecolab USA3 open roles
  3. Love's Travel Stops3 open roles
  4. Bradbury Miller Associates2 open roles
  5. Coosa Valley Medical Center2 open roles
  6. Joliet Junior College2 open roles
  7. Baltimore Gas and Electric1 open role
  8. Black Caucus of the American Library Association1 open role
  9. Butler Recruitment Group1 open role
  10. Caesars Entertainment1 open role

Joliet layoffs

No layoff notices naming Joliet 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 Joliet

Colleges in Joliet
CollegeTypeStudents
University of St FrancisPrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999

Will 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 4.5% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 2.2% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 4.2%, up 0.3 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (+4,163 jobs), health care (+2,663 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−2,325 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

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

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  • IDES North Chicago Street

    Joliet · Affiliate · 815-740-5100

    Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. We are open to the public

  • Workforce Center of Will County

    Joliet · Comprehensive · 815-727-4444

    Monday 08:30-16:30, Tuesday 08:30-16:30, Wednesday 08:30-16:30, Thursday 08:30-16:30, Friday 08:30-16:30,

Will County economy

  • 4.2%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    3.9% the month before

  • 380,503

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 698,450

    people in Will County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $107,799

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 40%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: 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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