Northfield, MN jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Northfield

• Grant Strategy Director for Community ImpactHci Mn
• Engineering ManagerAurora Pharmaceutical
• Brand & Social Content Manager - Short-Form Video ProCarleton College
• Accounting ManagerSheldahl Flexible Technologies
• Electrical Project ManagerGPAC
• Banking RecruiterGPAC
• Social Media & Digital Content ManagerCarleton College
• Employee Experience ManagerCarleton College

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Employers hiring most in Northfield

1. Carleton College3 open roles
2. GPAC2 open roles
3. Aurora Pharmaceutical1 open role
4. Hci Mn1 open role
5. Sheldahl Flexible Technologies1 open role

Largest employers headquartered in Northfield

• Carleton College1,001–5,000 employees

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Northfield layoffs

No layoff notices naming Northfield 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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Colleges in Northfield

Rice 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 5.5% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 4.2% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.3%, up 1.1 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: manufacturing (+428 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Northfield. Each link goes to the publisher.

• A number of Goodyear employees to be laid offAudacy on MSN · Oct 29, 2026

Learn and get funded in Northfield

• 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 Northfield. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in Minnesota? How to file for unemployment in Minnesota (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

• Workforce Development Board of Southeast Minnesota

  Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Rice, Steele, Wabasha

Rice County economy

• 4.3%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.2% the month before

• 36,273

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 67,389

  people in Rice County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $82,792

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 35%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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