Pontoon Beach, IL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Collection ManagerRevity Credit Union
- Senior MEP Project Manager- Data CenterMastec
- Sr Safety Manager/ Safety ManagerMastec
- Project Field Engineer- CivilMastec
- AdministratIve Assistant - ServiceCummins
- Senior Electrical Project Manager- Data CenterAmerican Civil Constructors
- Senior MEP Project Manager- Data CenterAmerican Civil Constructors
Employers hiring most in Pontoon Beach
- Mastec3 open roles
- American Civil Constructors2 open roles
- Cummins1 open role
- Revity Credit Union1 open role
Pontoon Beach layoffs
No layoff notices naming Pontoon Beach 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.
Madison 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 5.9% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 1.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.4%, down 0.7 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,713 jobs), construction (+937 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−1,319 jobs)
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Madison County economy
3.4%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
132,941
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
264,631
people in Madison County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$74,800
median household income
Source: Census ACS
40%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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