Battle Mountain, NV jobs, layoffs and employers
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Show me jobs near meJobs in Battle Mountain
- Phoenix - Process Engineer, Tailings & Heap LeachBarrick Gold
- Rangeland Management Specialist (GS-5/11)Bureau of Land Management
- FUL - Rangeland Management Specialist (GS-5/9)Bureau of Land Management
- Transportation Manager- Reno, NVUS Foods Holding
Employers hiring most in Battle Mountain
- Bureau of Land Management2 open roles
- Barrick Gold1 open role
- US Foods Holding1 open role
Battle Mountain layoffs
No layoff notices naming Battle Mountain 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.
Lander 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 6.5% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 2.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.7%, down 1.0 points from a year ago
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Battle Mountain. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Nevada unions, politicians caught between AI job creation and destructionReuters on MSN · Oct 28, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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Lander County economy
3.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.7% the month before
2,487
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
5,745
people in Lander County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$84,474
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from Nevada’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. Nevada unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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