Brockton, MA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Associate Consultant, Strategic TransformationChartis
- Executive AssistantAxelon Services
- Outside Sales RepresentativeFlow Control Group
- Manager of PayrollCreative Financial Staffing
- Payroll ManagerCreative Financial Staffing
- Marketing CoordinatorSonepar USA
- Chief Nursing OfficerIronside Human Resources
- SVP, Sr. Wealth & Trust Management OfficerBluestone Bank
- Senior Lead Technical Marketing Manager, CybersecurityLumen
- Junior Data AnalystW.B. Mason
Employers hiring most in Brockton
- Veterans Health Administration3 open roles
- Creative Financial Staffing2 open roles
- Crown Uniform and Linen Service2 open roles
- Advance Auto Parts1 open role
- Albertsons Companies1 open role
- Axelon Services1 open role
- Bluestone Bank1 open role
- Bmc Health System1 open role
- Chartis1 open role
- Eversource1 open role
Brockton layoffs
No layoff notices naming Brockton 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.
Plymouth County 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 2.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.2%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+3,945 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+1,275 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: retail (−1,019 jobs), manufacturing (−754 jobs)
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- 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 Brockton. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Massachusetts? How to file for unemployment in Massachusetts (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Brockton Area Workforce Investment Board DBA MassHire Greater Brockton Workforce Board
Towns: Abington, Avon, Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Easton, Hanson, Stoughton, West Bridgewater, Whitman
- Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board, Inc., dba MassHire Greater New Bedford Workforce Board
Towns: Acushnet, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Freetown, Lakeville, Marion, Mattapoisett, New Bedford, Rochester, Wareham
- MassHire SouthShore Workforce Board
Towns: Braintree, Carver, Cohasset, Duxbury, Halifax, Hanover, Hingham, Holbrook, Hull, Kingston, Marshfield, Middleborough, Milton, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Quincy, Randolph, Rockland, Scituate, Weymouth
MassHire Greater Brockton Career Center
Brockton · Comprehensive · 508-513-3400
Monday-Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Plymouth County economy
4.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.4% the month before
292,998
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
531,889
people in Plymouth County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$109,698
median household income
Source: Census ACS
45%
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 Massachusetts’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. Massachusetts unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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