Boston, KY jobs, layoffs and employers
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Show me jobs near meJobs in Boston
- Global Account DirectorCertara
- Senior Director, Growth MarketingCrunchTime
- Senior Director of Demand Gen & AI MarketingCrunchTime
- Enterprise Account ExecutiveOden Technologies
- Global Accounts Growth DirectorCertara
- Senior Account ExecutiveSummize
- Senior SaaS Account Executive - Enterprise GrowthSummize
- Senior Client Relationship & Operations ManagerAlter Domus
- Senior Technical Success Manager, Emerging Enterprise - EastAmplitude
- Associate Software Engineer: Back-End & AI ToolsIBM
Employers hiring most in Boston
- CrunchTime3 open roles
- Certara2 open roles
- Summize2 open roles
- Alter Domus1 open role
- Amplitude1 open role
- IBM1 open role
- Oden Technologies1 open role
Boston layoffs
No layoff notices naming Boston 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.
Nelson 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 6.0% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 4.8% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.4%, up 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: admin & staffing (+454 jobs)
Learn and get funded in Boston
- Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
- Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
- Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
- Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Boston. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Kentucky? How to file for unemployment in Kentucky (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Lincoln Trail Workforce Development Board
Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Larue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, Washington
Nelson County economy
4.4%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
23,494
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
47,102
people in Nelson County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$67,888
median household income
Source: Census ACS
32%
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 Kentucky’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. Kentucky unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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