Kansas City, MO jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Kansas City

• Principal Roadway EngineerParsons
• Senior Structural Project EngineerThornton Tomasetti
• Managing Principal, Building StructuresHNTB
• Structural EngineerThornton Tomasetti
• Conflicts ManagerLewis Brisbois
• Benefits ManagerHNTB
• Corporate Engagement & Events CoordinatorOperation Breakthrough
• Litigation Administrative AssistantNelson Mullins
• Senior Communications SpecialistHNTB
• Industry Engagement ManagerHNTB

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Employers hiring most in Kansas City

1. JE Dunn Construction59 open roles
2. Commerce Bank25 open roles
3. UMB Financial20 open roles
4. Barkley14 open roles
5. Children's Mercy Kansas City13 open roles
6. Catalent10 open roles
7. Cboe Global Markets10 open roles
8. HNTB8 open roles
9. Tenex.ai8 open roles
10. Inceed7 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in Kansas City

• H&R Block1,001–5,000 employees

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

Kansas City layoffs

No layoff notices naming Kansas City 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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Jackson 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 1.8% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 2.1% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.3%, down 0.4 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+5,051 jobs), construction (+2,889 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−2,022 jobs), professional & technical (−2,007 jobs)

Learn and get funded in Kansas City

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

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

• Eastern Jackson County Workforce Development Board

  Jackson (East)

Jackson County economy

• 3.3%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.7% the month before

• 389,783

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 717,021

  people in Jackson County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $67,178

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 40%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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