Oswego, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Work At Home Data Entry - Remote Position- Administrative AssistantMaxion
- Public Works Director: Operations, Budget & Team LeadershipYorkville
- Fund Development Gifts ManagerGirl Scouts of Northern Illinois
- Global HR Business Partner, P&O | Strategy & EngagementMars
- User Support Manager (DAC)Community Unit School District No. 308
- Talent Acquisition SpecialistPurposeCare
Employers hiring most in Oswego
- Community Unit School District No. 3081 open role
- Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois1 open role
- Mars1 open role
- Maxion1 open role
- PurposeCare1 open role
- Yorkville1 open role
Oswego layoffs
No layoff notices naming Oswego 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.
Kendall County outlook: Building
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 3.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 9.9% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.6 points from a year ago
Learn and get funded in Oswego
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- Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Oswego. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Illinois? How to file for unemployment in Illinois (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Kane, Kendal & DeKalb County Workforce Development Board
De Kalb, Kane, Kendall
Kendall County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.2% the month before
76,044
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
135,053
people in Kendall County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$110,474
median household income
Source: Census ACS
42%
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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