Canton, MA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Senior Modernization Project ManagerOtis Worldwide
- Tax Senior Manager, Corporate TaxFrazier & Deeter
- Senior Tax Manager, High Net WorthFrazier & Deeter
- Tax Manager, CorporateFrazier & Deeter
- Tax Manager, High Net WorthFrazier & Deeter
- Senior Director, Employee Benefits - Small GroupCEB Cranston EB
- Loan Servicing Specialist III - ResidentialRobins Financial Credit Union
- Senior AuditorRobins Financial Credit Union
- Loan Servicing ManagerRobins Financial Credit Union
- Loan Servicing Compliance AnalystRobins Financial Credit Union
Employers hiring most in Canton
- Robins Financial Credit Union10 open roles
- Frazier & Deeter7 open roles
- Emergent BioSolutions6 open roles
- Point32Health3 open roles
- Computershare2 open roles
- Duggan Mechanical Services2 open roles
- King & Bishop2 open roles
- Wesco International2 open roles
- Amazon1 open role
- Ambient Enterprises1 open role
Canton layoffs
No layoff notices naming Canton 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.
Norfolk 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 2.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 2.2% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.9%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+3,795 jobs), admin & staffing (+2,228 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: information (−2,011 jobs), finance & insurance (−1,075 jobs)
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- 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 Canton. 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
- 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
- Metro South/West Workforce Board, Inc.
Towns: Acton, Ashland, Bedford, Bellingham, Boxborough, Brookline, Canton, Carlisle, Concord, Dedham, Dover, Foxborough, Framingham, Franklin, Holliston, Hopkinton, Hudson, Lexington, Lincoln, Littleton, Marlborough, Maynard, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Natick, Needham, Newton, Norfolk, Norwood, Plainville, Sharon, Sherborn, Southborough, Stow, Sudbury, Walpole, Waltham, Wayland, Wellesley, Weston, Westwood, Wrentham
Norfolk County economy
3.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
415,556
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
724,540
people in Norfolk County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$126,497
median household income
Source: Census ACS
59%
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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