Wheatfield, IN jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Project ManagerEmcor
- Subcontract Project Manager IIZachry
- Project Controls Manager - EPCZachry
- Subcontract Administrator IIZachry
- Sr. Work Face PlannerZachry
- Project Environmental ManagerZachry
- Construction Manager IZachry
- Material Manager IIIZachry
- Schedule ManagerZachry
Employers hiring most in Wheatfield
Wheatfield layoffs
No layoff notices naming Wheatfield 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.
Jasper County outlook: Cooling
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs down 1.7% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.7%, up 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−366 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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Laid off in Indiana? How to file for unemployment in Indiana (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Northwest Indiana Workforce Board
Jasper, La Porte, Lake, Newton, Porter, Pulaski, Starke
Jasper County economy
3.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.4% the month before
17,064
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
33,198
people in Jasper County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$79,634
median household income
Source: Census ACS
31%
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 Indiana’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. Indiana unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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