Paducah, KY jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Assistant General ManagerChipotle Mexican Grill
- Outside Sales Representative - Paducah, KYUnifirst
- Director of Operations, Medical GroupBon Secours Mercy Health
- Lab Manager - Lourdes HospitalBon Secours Mercy Health
- Plant ManagerGeneral Matter
- IT ManagerGeneral Matter
- Project Estimator / Project Controls ManagerGeneral Matter
- Civil Engineer PE - PaducahGeneral Matter
- Mechanical Engineer (PE) - PaducahGeneral Matter
- Procurement SpecialistGeneral Matter
Employers hiring most in Paducah
- General Matter12 open roles
- Bon Secours Mercy Health2 open roles
- Healthworks Medical2 open roles
- Mercy Hospital Springfield2 open roles
- Amazon1 open role
- Baptist Health1 open role
- Chipotle Mexican Grill1 open role
- Community Hospital1 open role
- Granite Construction1 open role
- Hutco1 open role
Paducah layoffs
No layoff notices naming Paducah 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.
McCracken 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 0.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.3%, unchanged from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+493 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+404 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Paducah. 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).
- West Kentucky Workforce Development Board
Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg
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McCracken County economy
4.3%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.3% the month before
31,667
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
67,584
people in McCracken County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$62,385
median household income
Source: Census ACS
38%
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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