Lee's Summit, MO jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Personal Auto UnderwriterLonestar.com
- General ManagerGecko Hospitality
- Construction Project ManagerIntrinsic Development
- Executive Administrative Assistant to CEOSaint Lukes
- System Administrator 2-IT - Storage EngineerOracle
- Vice President of Clinical Excellence & InnovationReDiscover
- Restaurant Assistant General ManagerNOODLES
- Executive Events & Communications ManagerGovernment Employees Health Association
- Financial AnalystGovernment Employees Health Association
- APS Group LeadQuest Diagnostics
Employers hiring most in Lee's Summit
- Cherokee Nation Businesses4 open roles
- Government Employees Health Association2 open roles
- Gecko Hospitality1 open role
- Intrinsic Development1 open role
- Lonestar.com1 open role
- NOODLES1 open role
- Oracle1 open role
- Quest Diagnostics1 open role
- ReDiscover1 open role
- Saint Lukes1 open role
Lee's Summit layoffs
No layoff notices naming Lee's Summit 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.
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)
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Workforce development and job centers
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- 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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