Farmington, MN jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Telecommunications EngineerLeidos
- Airway Transportation Systems Specialist ((SOC NAS)) (FV-I)Federal Aviation Administration
- Airway Transportation Systems Specialist (Service Delivery Specialist (SDS)) (FV-J)Federal Aviation Administration
- HR GeneralistValmont
Employers hiring most in Farmington
- Federal Aviation Administration2 open roles
- Leidos1 open role
- Valmont1 open role
Farmington layoffs
No layoff notices naming Farmington 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.
Olmsted 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 4.6% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 2.3% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.7%, up 0.8 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+3,676 jobs), construction (+451 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−559 jobs), information (−492 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Farmington. Each link goes to the publisher.
- A number of Goodyear employees to be laid offAudacy on MSN · Oct 29, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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- Workforce Development Board of Southeast Minnesota
Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Rice, Steele, Wabasha
Olmsted County economy
3.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
2.9% the month before
91,173
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
163,425
people in Olmsted County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$93,494
median household income
Source: Census ACS
55%
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 Minnesota’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. Minnesota unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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