Olney, MD jobs, layoffs and employers

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Show me jobs near meJobs in Olney
- Growth-Minded Marketing & Communications CoordinatorJustChurchJobs
- Manager Clinical LaboratoryMedstar Health
- Quality & Safety SpecialistMedstar Health
Employers hiring most in Olney
- Medstar Health2 open roles
- JustChurchJobs1 open role
Olney layoffs
No layoff notices naming Olney 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.
Montgomery 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 1.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 1.3% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.2%, down 1.0 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+9,114 jobs), arts & recreation (+1,572 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: professional & technical (−5,490 jobs), finance & insurance (−2,927 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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Laid off in Maryland? How to file for unemployment in Maryland (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
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Montgomery
Montgomery County economy
3.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.2% the month before
560,766
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
1,057,586
people in Montgomery County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$128,733
median household income
Source: Census ACS
60%
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 Maryland’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. Maryland unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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