Covington, LA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- AccountantOnesource Professional Search
- RETAIL DISTRICT MANAGER - UNASSIGNED in COVINGTON, LADollar General
- Legal Assistant ParalegalStrategic Recruitment Solutions
- HR GeneralistGlobalstar
- Business Development RepresentativePuroClean
- Entry-Level Staff AccountantBLC Consulting
- Weeks Dredging - Chief Engineer (Unlimited)Weeks Marine
- Director of EngineeringHow Much, A Juvo Company
- Senior Director, Animal Resources & OperationsTulane group
- Financial AnalystPoolCorp
Employers hiring most in Covington
- The Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund4 open roles
- Beacon Behavioral Partners1 open role
- BLC Consulting1 open role
- Dollar General1 open role
- Globalstar1 open role
- How Much, A Juvo Company1 open role
- Kiewit1 open role
- LCMC Health1 open role
- Onesource Professional Search1 open role
- Pool Company1 open role
Covington layoffs
No layoff notices naming Covington 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.
St. Tammany Parish 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 4.9% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 5.3% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.5 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,885 jobs), hotels & food (+793 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: retail (−759 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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- First Planning District Workforce Development Board
Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany
St. Tammany Parish economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
130,101
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
269,331
people in St. Tammany Parish
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$79,277
median household income
Source: Census ACS
44%
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 Louisiana’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. Louisiana unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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