Marquette, MI jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Financial Advisor - Embers Credit UnionLPL Financial
- Clinical DirectorUnitedhealth Group
- Experience ManagerUlta Beauty
- Lead Specialist - Product Owner - Veterans Evaluation ServicesMaximus
- Plant Operations DirectorLifePoint Health
- Clinical Operations Manager Professional CardiologyLifePoint Health
- Market Chief Executive Officer (CEO)LifePoint Health
- Director (RN) Emergency Department (ED)LifePoint Health
- Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)LifePoint Health
- Senior Director, Correctional Healthcare OperationsAffinity Home Health Care
Employers hiring most in Marquette
- Waldo Solutions8 open roles
- LifePoint Health5 open roles
- Maximus2 open roles
- Affinity Home Health Care1 open role
- Connexzia1 open role
- LPL Financial1 open role
- Ulta Beauty1 open role
- Unitedhealth Group1 open role
Marquette layoffs
No layoff notices naming Marquette 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 Marquette
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Michigan University | Public 4-year | 5,000–9,999 |
Mackinac 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 2.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.8% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.5%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Marquette. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Verso lays off 19 in EscanabaThe Mining Journal · Oct 1, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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Mackinac County economy
3.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.3% the month before
5,341
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
10,865
people in Mackinac County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$58,598
median household income
Source: Census ACS
39%
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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