Pontiac, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Executive Assistant (for CEO of Skilled Nursing Facilities)Wealthy Group of Companies
- Senior Transportation Engineering Manager (Hybrid)Farnsworth Group
- Aftertreatment Manufacturing Engineer - NPICaterpillar
- Manufacturing EngineerAditi Consulting
- Recruiter, Banking and Insurance - Pontiac, IL (Remote)GPAC
- Teen DirectorBoys & Girls Clubs Of America
- Manufacturing Quality EngineerRose International
Employers hiring most in Pontiac
- Aditi Consulting1 open role
- Boys & Girls Clubs Of America1 open role
- Caterpillar1 open role
- Farnsworth Group1 open role
- GPAC1 open role
- Rose International1 open role
- Wealthy Group of Companies1 open role
Pontiac layoffs
No layoff notices naming Pontiac 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.
Livingston 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 7.9% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 2.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.2%, down 0.8 points from a year ago
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Pontiac. 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).
- Grundy Livingston Kankakee Workforce Board
Grundy, Kankakee, Livingston
Livingston Workforce Services
Pontiac · Affiliate · 309-268-8280
Monday - Thursday 8am-4:30pm
Livingston County economy
3.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.0% the month before
16,912
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
35,659
people in Livingston County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$70,796
median household income
Source: Census ACS
30%
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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