Peabody, MA jobs, layoffs and employers

27 open professional jobs in Peabody. Peabody is in Essex County.

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Employers hiring most in Peabody

  1. Ametek Inc/4 open roles
  2. Ametek SCP3 open roles
  3. Barton Associates2 open roles
  4. Casella Waste Systems2 open roles
  5. MP RPO2 open roles
  6. Rockland Trust Company2 open roles
  7. TruNorth Bank2 open roles
  8. Bridgewell1 open role
  9. CFS1 open role
  10. Erickson Senior Living1 open role

Peabody layoffs

No layoff notices naming Peabody 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.

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Essex 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 2.3% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 4.3%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+5,381 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+5,332 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−1,564 jobs), finance & insurance (−1,314 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Peabody. 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 Merrimack Valley Workforce Board

    Towns: Amesbury, Andover, Boxford, Georgetown, Groveland, Haverhill, Lawrence, Merrimac, Methuen, Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, Rowley, Salisbury, West Newbury

  • MassHire-North Shore Workforce Board

    Towns: Beverly, Danvers, Essex, Gloucester, Hamilton, Ipswich, Lynn, Lynnfield, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Middleton, Nahant, Peabody, Rockport, Salem, Saugus, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wenham

Essex County economy

  • 4.3%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    4.5% the month before

  • 439,969

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 807,258

    people in Essex County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $99,431

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 46%

    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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