Mount Vernon, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Chief Clinical OfficerHuman Development Services of Westchester
- Executive DirectorNapco USA
- Executive DirectorThe Winter Sanctuary
- Executive Director of Human ResourcesMount Vernon City School District
- Senior Research AnalystBellingham Technical College
- Credit Analystgpac
- Head ManagerSnipes
- Executive DirectorThe Chasteen Group
- Chief Administrative Officer Illinois Medical Center CrossroadsDeaconess
- Administrative AssistantExcel Dairy Service
Employers hiring most in Mount Vernon
- Atlantis-Management-Group-LL1 open role
- Bellingham Technical College1 open role
- Dayton Freight Lines1 open role
- Deaconess1 open role
- Excel Dairy Service1 open role
- gpac1 open role
- Human Development Services of Westchester1 open role
- Knox County Ohio1 open role
- Love's Travel Stops1 open role
- Mount Vernon City School District1 open role
Mount Vernon layoffs
No layoff notices naming Mount Vernon 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.
Jefferson 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 0.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 2.3% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.4%, down 0.5 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+757 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−409 jobs)
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Laid off in Illinois? How to file for unemployment in Illinois (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Southern Illinois Workforce Development Board
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Jefferson County economy
4.4%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.9% the month before
15,366
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
36,808
people in Jefferson County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$61,102
median household income
Source: Census ACS
29%
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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