Exeter, NH jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Associate Technical Designer - ApparelQVC Group
- Assistant Merchant - HomeQVC Group
- Merchandise Planning & Insights AnalystQVC Group
- Chief Medical Officer (CMO)Beth Israel Lahey Health
- Chief Medical Officer, Core PhysiciansBeth Israel Lahey Health
- Executive VP, Engineering Projects & Capital DeliveryPhoenix Tailings
- Quality and Compliance ManagerZeiss
Employers hiring most in Exeter
- QVC Group3 open roles
- Beth Israel Lahey Health2 open roles
- Phoenix Tailings1 open role
- Zeiss1 open role
Exeter layoffs
No layoff notices naming Exeter 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.
Rockingham 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 4.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.1%, down 1.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,467 jobs), arts & recreation (+1,017 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−541 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Exeter. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Layoffs more than doubled in 10 states in 2026. New Hampshire recorded the fastest rise.International Business Times on MSN · Oct 29, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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Rockingham County economy
2.1%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.2% the month before
187,440
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
317,163
people in Rockingham County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$113,927
median household income
Source: Census ACS
48%
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 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; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. New Hampshire unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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