Salem, MO jobs, layoffs and employers

3 open professional jobs in Salem. Salem is in Dunklin County.

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Jobs in Salem

HR GeneralistTimeforge
Process EngineerRoyal Oak
Process EngineerfirstPRO 360

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Employers hiring most in Salem

firstPRO 3601 open role
Royal Oak1 open role
Timeforge1 open role

Salem layoffs

No layoff notices naming Salem 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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Dunklin 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 4.7% from 2022 to 2025
Population down 4.8% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 4.9%, up 0.2 points from a year ago

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Dunklin County economy

4.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.7% the month before
11,543
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
27,795
people in Dunklin County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$47,368
median household income
Source: Census ACS
29%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: Layoff notices from Missouri’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. Missouri unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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