North Adams, MA jobs, layoffs and employers
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Show me jobs near meNorth Adams layoffs
No layoff notices naming North Adams 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.
Colleges in North Adams
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts | Public 4-year | Under 1,000 |
Berkshire County outlook: Cooling
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs down 0.9% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 1.2% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.9%, down 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+615 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: professional & technical (−410 jobs), retail (−393 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving North Adams. 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 Berkshire Workforce Board
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Berkshire County economy
3.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.0% the month before
64,387
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
128,047
people in Berkshire County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$72,565
median household income
Source: Census ACS
46%
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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