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Southaven, MS jobs, layoffs and employers

28 open professional jobs in Southaven. Employers filed 1 layoff notices here in the last 12 months. Southaven is in DeSoto County.

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Employers hiring most in Southaven

  1. SpaceXSI11 open roles
  2. Abacus Staffing3 open roles
  3. Agape Care1 open role
  4. ALO Yoga1 open role
  5. Barbachano International1 open role
  6. Bradfordhealth1 open role
  7. CyberCoders1 open role
  8. Distribution Center1 open role
  9. Forrest City Hospital1 open role
  10. Kontoor Brands1 open role

Southaven layoffs

  • 1

    Layoff notices, last 12 months

  • 60

    workers named

    A floor: states may leave out counts

  • 1

    employer

Layoff notices filed in Southaven, newest first
Notice dateEmployerCity or countyWorkersTypeSource
Laboratory Corporation of AmericaTakes effect Jun 9, 2026DeSoto County60Closure — WARN ± Due to Consolidation of Business.State record

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DeSoto County outlook: Building

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

  • Private-sector jobs up 4.0% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 6.3% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 3.2%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: retail (+919 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+816 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−959 jobs), admin & staffing (−789 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

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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

DeSoto County economy

  • 3.2%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    3.4% the month before

  • 97,666

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 188,598

    people in DeSoto County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $82,980

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 38%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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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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