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Columbus, MS jobs, layoffs and employers

29 open professional jobs in Columbus. Columbus is in Lowndes County.

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Employers hiring most in Columbus

  1. Paccar13 open roles
  2. Air Education and Training Command2 open roles
  3. CRH Public2 open roles
  4. Steel Dynamics2 open roles
  5. Beloit Health System1 open role
  6. Biocarbon Solutions1 open role
  7. Dutch Lubricants1 open role
  8. EquipmentShare.com1 open role
  9. Humana1 open role
  10. PACCAR Winch1 open role

Columbus layoffs

No layoff notices naming Columbus 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 Columbus

Colleges in Columbus
CollegeTypeStudents
Mississippi University for WomenPublic 4-year1,000–4,999

Lowndes 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 6.4% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population down 2.4% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: construction (+1,174 jobs), health care (+458 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−300 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Columbus. 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).

  • 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

Lowndes County economy

  • 3.6%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    3.9% the month before

  • 25,213

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 58,187

    people in Lowndes County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $54,460

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 32%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

All of Mississippi

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Sources: 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; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. Mississippi unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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