Traverse City, MI jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Wealth Advisor - 4Front Credit UnionMid Oregon Credit Union
- IMMULITE Sales Specialist - North CentralVarian Medical Systems
- Account Executive, Diagnostic Imaging, Detroit, MIVarian Medical Systems
- Applications Engineer - Welding AluminumIllinois Tool Works
- Account Manager - Developmental Sales RepresentativeSnap-on
- Wealth Advisor II - Private BankHuntington Bank
- Mortgage Loan OfficerHuntington Bank
- Airport Operations SupervisorNorthwest Regional Airport Authority
- Mobile EngineerSoftware Specialists
- Maintenance ManagerBay Area Transportation Authority
Employers hiring most in Traverse City
- Timken5 open roles
- Charter Communications2 open roles
- Huntington Bank2 open roles
- Sara Lee® Frozen Bakery2 open roles
- Varian Medical Systems2 open roles
- Amazon1 open role
- Bay Area Transportation Authority1 open role
- Cintas1 open role
- Hiring Solutions1 open role
- Illinois Tool Works1 open role
Traverse City layoffs
No layoff notices naming Traverse City 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.
Grand Traverse 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 4.7% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 1.4% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.2%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+941 jobs), hotels & food (+540 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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Laid off in Michigan? How to file for unemployment in Michigan (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Northwest Michigan Workforce Development Board
Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee, Missaukee, Wexford
Grand Traverse County economy
3.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.4% the month before
50,621
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
95,757
people in Grand Traverse County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$79,486
median household income
Source: Census ACS
41%
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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