Tupelo, MS jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Tupelo

• Quality Engineer Laser Tracker - Quality Engineer IIIGeneral Atomics
• Quality Engineer Mechanical - Quality Engineer IIIGeneral Atomics
• Quality Engineer Electrical - Quality Engineer IIIGeneral Atomics
• Weld and Fabrication Manufacturing EngineerGeneral Atomics
• Lithium Processing Chief EngineerGeneral Atomics
• Project Manager, NNSA ProgramsGeneral Atomics
• Manufacturing Chemical EngineerGeneral Atomics
• CNC Applications Specialist IVGeneral Atomics
• Store Softlines Manager #241 - Tupelo, MSAcademy Of Excellence
• Sales RepresentativeLeggett & Platt

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Employers hiring most in Tupelo

1. General Atomics9 open roles
2. Culmen International2 open roles
3. Academy Of Excellence1 open role
4. Ashley Furniture1 open role
5. Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology1 open role
6. Grammer1 open role
7. Guaranty Bank and Trust Company1 open role
8. Heitmeyer Consulting1 open role
9. Leggett & Platt1 open role
10. North Mississippi Health Services1 open role

Tupelo layoffs

No layoff notices naming Tupelo 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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Lee 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 down 4.6% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 0.5% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.0%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+986 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−2,440 jobs), admin & staffing (−832 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

• Pontotoc Farmer’s Market scales back time to 8 a.m. startdjournal · Sep 30, 2026

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Workforce development and job centers

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• 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

Lee County economy

• 3.0%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.3% the month before

• 37,354

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 83,138

  people in Lee County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $67,144

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 36%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS