Mattoon, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Credit Analyst IIFirst Mid Bank & Trust
- Recruiter, Banking and Insurance - Mattoon, IL (Remote)GPAC
- Senior Systems EngineerRural King
- Facilities Project ManagerRural King
- Construction Project Manager - Southwest RegionRural King
- Director of Loss PreventionRural King
- Buyer, FootwearRural King
- Associate Buyer, FirearmsRural King
- Associate Buyer, FootwearRural King
- Vendor Merchandising Program Specialist - Walnut CreekRural King
Employers hiring most in Mattoon
- Rural King20 open roles
- Bimbo Bakeries USA1 open role
- First Mid Bank & Trust1 open role
- GPAC1 open role
- Vector Marketing1 open role
Mattoon layoffs
No layoff notices naming Mattoon 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.
Coles 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 1.9% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 1.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.0%, down 0.8 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,045 jobs), hotels & food (+488 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−690 jobs)
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Coles County economy
3.0%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.8% the month before
25,108
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
46,689
people in Coles County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$56,040
median household income
Source: Census ACS
35%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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