Oakbrook Terrace, IL jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Engineer-AUTODESK-INVENTORPECO Energy
- Principal Project Manager - Transmission and Substation UtilityPECO Energy
- Principal Project Manager - Transmission & SubstationPECO Energy
- Principal Project Manager - Transmission and Substation (EPC)PECO Energy
- Principal Project Manager - Transmission & Substation New BusinessPECO Energy
- Principal Project Manager (Transmission) Oakbrook Terrace, ILPECO Energy
- Sr EngineerPECO Energy
- Senior Engineer - T&S Engineering Standards (Protection & Control)PECO Energy
- Sr Engineer - Relay and Protection EngineeringPECO Energy
- Sr Engineer - T&S Relay EngineeringPECO Energy
Employers hiring most in Oakbrook Terrace
- Baltimore Gas and Electric25 open roles
- Exelon25 open roles
- PECO Energy25 open roles
- Pepco Holdings25 open roles
- McCain Foods USA10 open roles
- BCS Financial2 open roles
- confidential2 open roles
- Crowe2 open roles
- International Contractors2 open roles
- Jobot2 open roles
Oakbrook Terrace layoffs
No layoff notices naming Oakbrook Terrace 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.
Where Oakbrook Terrace ranks
Where Oakbrook Terrace placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.
November 2026
- #7Best cities for energy and utilities jobs103 openings · of 27
- #10Best cities for AI-skill jobs in the Midwest10% · of 69
- #10Best cities for AI-skill jobs in the Great Lakes10% · of 53
- #10Best cities for mid-career professionals in the Midwest60% · of 69
- #10Best cities for mid-career professionals in the Great Lakes60% · of 53
- #13Best cities for junior jobs in Illinois22% · of 17
DuPage 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 4.2% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 0.3% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.8%, up 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+23,607 jobs), manufacturing (+4,466 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−2,959 jobs), professional & technical (−2,166 jobs)
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DuPage County economy
3.8%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.5% the month before
508,755
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
927,263
people in DuPage County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$110,502
median household income
Source: Census ACS
50%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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