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New Hampshire jobs and job market: layoffs, colleges and workforce help

New Hampshire’s unemployment rate is 2.6%. 1,340 open professional jobs are listed here. Employers filed 0 layoff notices in the last 12 months. Choose a county or city for the same picture closer to home.

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New Hampshire economy

  • 2.6%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    3.2% the month before

  • 773,878

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 1,387,834

    people in New Hampshire

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $95,628

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 45%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

New Hampshire 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 1.1% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 2.7% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 1.9%, down 1.2 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+7,599 jobs), arts & recreation (+3,561 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: finance & insurance (−3,111 jobs), manufacturing (−2,483 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

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New Hampshire layoffs

No layoff notices naming New Hampshire 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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Employers hiring most in New Hampshire

Employers with the most open professional roles on our job board right now.

  1. BAE Systems410 open roles
  2. Dartmouth Health39 open roles
  3. Celestica26 open roles
  4. PC Connection24 open roles
  5. Albany International21 open roles
  6. Solutionhealth17 open roles
  7. L3HARRIS Technologies16 open roles
  8. Albertsons Companies14 open roles
  9. University of New Hampshire / USNH14 open roles
  10. Safeway13 open roles
  11. Hubbell12 open roles
  12. Eversource Energy10 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in New Hampshire

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

Higher education in New Hampshire

  • 15

    public and private non-profit colleges

    Source: IPEDS, U.S. Department of Education

  • about 88,500

    students enrolled

    Estimated from size bands

Largest colleges in New Hampshire

Largest colleges in New Hampshire
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Southern New Hampshire UniversityManchesterPrivate non-profit 4-year20,000+
University of New Hampshire-Main CampusDurhamPublic 4-year10,000–19,999
Dartmouth CollegeHanoverPrivate non-profit 4-year5,000–9,999
Franklin Pierce UniversityRindgePrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999
Keene State CollegeKeenePublic 4-year1,000–4,999
New England CollegeHennikerPrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999
Plymouth State UniversityPlymouthPublic 4-year1,000–4,999
Rivier UniversityNashuaPrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999
Saint Anselm CollegeManchesterPrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999
University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies OnlineManchesterPublic 4-year1,000–4,999
Antioch University-New EnglandKeenePrivate non-profit 4-yearUnder 1,000
Colby-Sawyer CollegeNew LondonPrivate non-profit 4-yearUnder 1,000

All 15 New Hampshire colleges

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving New Hampshire. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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

12 American Job Centers in New Hampshire

Conferences in New Hampshire

Industry conferences and trade shows held in New Hampshire, the ones worth a trip for hiring managers and job seekers. 2 with dates announced.

All conferences

New Hampshire counties

Each county page has its own unemployment, layoffs, job openings, employers, colleges and job centers.

New Hampshire cities

Cities with open jobs, layoff notices, a job center or a college.

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Laid off or looking for work in New Hampshire?

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See your options after a layoff

Sources: Census Bureau and BLS for population, income and unemployment; layoff notices from New Hampshire’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. New Hampshire unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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