Chelsea, MA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Assistant General ManagerGreen Thumb Industries
- Sr. Field Service EngineerRivian Automotive
- Senior Program Manager, Operations (Wastewater)Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
- Hybrid Multimedia Communications CoordinatorCommonwealth of Massachusetts
- Admissions Director - Compassionate Senior Care LeaderMarquis Health Consulting Services
- Director of Resource DevelopmentOpportunity Communities
- Operations Coordinator, PetroleumProfessional Service Industries
- Commercial Operations ManagerMetro Credit Union
- Senior Accountant - Month-End, Budget & SOX (Onsite Chelsea)Catalent
- Account Executive -Japanese BilingualA-Staffing
Employers hiring most in Chelsea
- Massachusetts Water Resources Authority2 open roles
- A-Staffing1 open role
- Catalent1 open role
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 open role
- Green Thumb Industries1 open role
- Marquis Health Consulting Services1 open role
- Metro Credit Union1 open role
- Opportunity Communities1 open role
- Professional Service Industries1 open role
- Rivian Automotive1 open role
Chelsea layoffs
No layoff notices naming Chelsea 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.
Suffolk 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 1.2% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 0.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.2%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: hotels & food (+7,668 jobs), management of companies (+2,744 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: professional & technical (−4,731 jobs), retail (−2,787 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Chelsea. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Iconic Cambridge dive bar not reopening after closing over severe water damageYahoo · Nov 6, 2026
- Amazon’s Tye Brady And Boston Globe’s Aaron Pressman Talk RobotsForbes · Nov 6, 2026
- ‘Kind of heartbreaking’: Mass General Brigham to close its only primary care clinic in Downtown CrossingThe Boston Globe · Nov 4, 2026
- Brigham and Women's nurses announce open-ended strikeHealthcare IT News · Nov 2, 2026
- Cambridge Common, Café Barada will closeCambridge Day · Nov 1, 2026
- Boston Layoffs NewsThe Business Journals · Oct 25, 2026
- Fired Massachusetts teacher says AI wrote the performance review that cost her her jobYahoo · Oct 23, 2026
- Are local governments, like Boston’s, using AI enough?The Boston Globe · Oct 21, 2026
Learn and get funded in Chelsea
- 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 Chelsea. 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).
- MassHire Boston Workforce Board
Town: Boston
- Metro North Regional Employment Board
Towns: Arlington, Belmont, Burlington, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Melrose, North Reading, Reading, Revere, Somerville, Stoneham, Wakefield, Watertown, Wilmington, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn
MassHire Metro North Career Center of Chelsea
Chelsea · Affiliate · 617-884-4333
Monday - Friday 8:30am-4:30pm
Suffolk County economy
4.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.5% the month before
465,838
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
782,172
people in Suffolk County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$92,859
median household income
Source: Census ACS
53%
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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