Dearborn, MI jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Ford Racing Program Management AnalystFord
- Email Marketing SpecialistEnergy Innovation: Policy and Technology
- Relationship Manager I - Business BankingPNC Financial Services Group
- Senior Manager, Supply Chain Program ManagementFord Motor Company
- Senior Manager, AI Learning & DevelopmentFord
- Generative AI EngineerApex Systems
- Forward Deployed Engineer - Advanced Manufacturing, Ford EnergyFord Energy
- Graphic DesignerAkkodis
- Clinical Manager - Community Based/Non-ProfitConsulting Firm
- Supply Chain ManagerEpitec
Employers hiring most in Dearborn
- Ford Motor203 open roles
- Ford10 open roles
- Penske Truck Leasing5 open roles
- Akkodis4 open roles
- Apex Systems2 open roles
- Carhartt2 open roles
- Corewell Health2 open roles
- Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology2 open roles
- Epitec2 open roles
- Universal Health Services2 open roles
Largest employers headquartered in Dearborn
- Ford100,000+ employees
Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.
Dearborn layoffs
No layoff notices naming Dearborn 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 Dearborn
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan-Dearborn | Public 4-year | 5,000–9,999 |
Wayne 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 up 0.3% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 1.2% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 6.7%, up 0.8 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+12,505 jobs), hotels & food (+5,465 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−6,391 jobs), manufacturing (−6,179 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Dearborn. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Will AI kill jobs? One tech leader says Ben Franklin would be just as confused by podcastingYahoo · Nov 3, 2026
- Dakkota workers denounce Detroit plant closure: “They don’t care about us”World Socialist Web Site · Oct 26, 2026
- Dakota Integrated Systems WARN Act Investigationstraussborrelli.com · Oct 22, 2026
- America's largest automaker tempers its electric ambitions with plant closure in MichiganCarBuzz on MSN · Oct 22, 2026
- Dakkota to Close Detroit Plant, Cut 397 JobsPlasticsToday · Oct 20, 2026
- MDOT crews prepare to remove pavement in area of Telegraph Road sinkhole in TaylorCBS News on MSN · Oct 6, 2026
- Over 640 workers to be laid off in Wayne CountyThe Detroit News on MSN · Sep 29, 2026
Learn and get funded in Dearborn
- 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 Dearborn. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Michigan? How to file for unemployment in Michigan (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- City of Detroit Mayor’s Workforce Development Board
City: City of Detroit
- SEMCA Workforce Development Board
Monroe, Wayne
SEMCA Michigan Works! Dearborn American Job Center
Dearborn · Comprehensive · 313-203-1891
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Wayne County economy
6.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.9% the month before
819,492
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
1,773,767
people in Wayne County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$59,521
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
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 Michigan’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. Michigan unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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