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Northampton, MA jobs, layoffs and employers

30 open professional jobs in Northampton. Northampton is in Hampshire County.

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Jobs in Northampton

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Employers hiring most in Northampton

  1. L3HARRIS Technologies14 open roles
  2. Harris Health Strategic Fund5 open roles
  3. Smith College3 open roles
  4. Dhaka Technologies1 open role
  5. Flow Control Group1 open role
  6. L3HARRIS Technologies Integrated Systems L.P.1 open role
  7. Nonotuck Community School1 open role
  8. ServiceNet1 open role
  9. Software Placement Group1 open role
  10. SteerBridge1 open role

Northampton layoffs

No layoff notices naming Northampton 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.

All layoff notices in the state

Colleges in Northampton

Colleges in Northampton
CollegeTypeStudents
Smith CollegePrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999
Conway School of Landscape DesignPrivate non-profit 4-yearUnder 1,000

Hampshire 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 down 1.6% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 10.4% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 3.8%, down 0.4 points from a year ago
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: wholesale (−1,047 jobs), retail (−594 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Northampton. 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 Franklin Hampshire Workforce Board

    Towns: Amherst, Ashfield, Athol, Belchertown, Bernardston, Buckland, Charlemont, Chesterfield, Colrain, Conway, Cummington, Deerfield, Easthampton, Erving, Gill, Goshen, Granby, Greenfield, Hadley, Hatfield, Hawley, Heath, Huntington, Leverett, Leyden, Middlefield, Monroe, Montague, New Salem, Northampton, Northfield, Orange, Pelham, Petersham, Phillipston, Plainfield, Rowe, Royalston, Shelburne, Shutesbury, South Hadley, Southampton, Sunderland, Ware, Warwick, Wendell, Westhampton, Whately, Williamsburg, Worthington

Hampshire County economy

  • 3.8%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    4.2% the month before

  • 84,724

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 156,595

    people in Hampshire County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $86,391

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 50%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: 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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