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Mississippi jobs and job market: layoffs, colleges and workforce help

Mississippi’s unemployment rate is 3.3%. 831 open professional jobs are listed here. Employers filed 3 layoff notices in the last 12 months. Choose a county or city for the same picture closer to home.

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Mississippi economy

  • 3.3%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    3.7% the month before

  • 1,270,538

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 2,951,438

    people in Mississippi

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $54,915

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 35%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Mississippi 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 1.3% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population down 0.1% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 3.3%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+7,487 jobs), construction (+4,363 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−9,860 jobs), admin & staffing (−5,218 jobs)

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Mississippi layoffs

  • 3

    Layoff notices, last 12 months

  • 926

    workers named

    A floor: states may leave out counts

  • 3

    employers

Layoff notices filed in Mississippi, newest first
Notice dateEmployerCity or countyWorkersTypeSource
Greenwood Leflore HospitalTakes effect Jun 15, 2026Leflore County425Closure — WARN- Due to Financial Challenges.State record
Laboratory Corporation of AmericaTakes effect Jun 9, 2026DeSoto County60Closure — WARN ± Due to Consolidation of Business.State record
Stanley Black & DeckerLee County441Closure — WARN- Due to production of certain items.State record

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Employers hiring most in Mississippi

Employers with the most open professional roles on our job board right now.

  1. Mississippi State University60 open roles
  2. Amazon39 open roles
  3. Anduril Industries28 open roles
  4. Entergy19 open roles
  5. University of Southern Mississippi17 open roles
  6. Paccar13 open roles
  7. Air Education and Training Command12 open roles
  8. Relativity Space12 open roles
  9. General Atomics11 open roles
  10. University of Mississippi Medical Center11 open roles
  11. Northrop Grumman10 open roles
  12. RTX10 open roles

Higher education in Mississippi

  • 17

    public and private non-profit colleges

    Source: IPEDS, U.S. Department of Education

  • about 171,000

    students enrolled

    Estimated from size bands

Largest colleges in Mississippi

Largest colleges in Mississippi
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Mississippi State UniversityMississippi StatePublic 4-year20,000+
University of MississippiUniversityPublic 4-year20,000+
University of Southern MississippiHattiesburgPublic 4-year10,000–19,999
Jackson State UniversityJacksonPublic 4-year5,000–9,999
William Carey UniversityHattiesburgPrivate non-profit 4-year5,000–9,999
Alcorn State UniversityAlcorn StatePublic 4-year1,000–4,999
Belhaven UniversityJacksonPrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999
Delta State UniversityClevelandPublic 4-year1,000–4,999
Mississippi CollegeClintonPrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999
Mississippi University for WomenColumbusPublic 4-year1,000–4,999
Mississippi Valley State UniversityItta BenaPublic 4-year1,000–4,999
Tougaloo CollegeTougalooPrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999

All 17 Mississippi colleges

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Mississippi. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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

  • Delta Workforce Development Area

    Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Panola, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tunica, Washington

  • Mississippi Partnership Workforce Investment Area

    Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, De Soto, Grenada, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, Winston, Yalobusha

  • Southcentral Mississippi Works Workforce Development Board

    Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lincoln, Madison, Pike, Rankin, Simpson, Walthall, Warren, Wilkinson, Yazoo

  • Twin Districts Workforce Development Area

    Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Kemper, Lamar, Lauderdale, Leake, Marion, Neshoba, Newton, Pearl River, Perry, Scott, Smith, Stone, Wayne

29 American Job Centers in Mississippi

Job fairs and business events in Mississippi

Hiring events, career workshops, small-business counseling and startup events from chambers, job centers, workforce boards, colleges and economic-development groups in Mississippi.

Conferences in Mississippi

Industry conferences and trade shows held in Mississippi, the ones worth a trip for hiring managers and job seekers. 4 with dates announced.

All conferences

Mississippi counties

Each county page has its own unemployment, layoffs, job openings, employers, colleges and job centers.

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Mississippi cities

Cities with open jobs, layoff notices, a job center or a college.

Show all 52

Laid off or looking for work in Mississippi?

See what to do first, what Mississippi unemployment benefits pay, and the jobs open near you.

See your options after a layoff

Sources: Census Bureau and BLS for population, income and unemployment; layoff notices from Mississippi’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. Mississippi unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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