Colby, KS jobs, layoffs and employers

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Colby layoffs

No layoff notices naming Colby 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.

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Thomas 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 3.3% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 2.5% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 2.7%, unchanged from a year ago

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Workforce development and job centers

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Thomas County economy

• 2.7%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  2.7% the month before

• 4,556

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 7,913

  people in Thomas County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $73,575

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 38%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS