Hanover, NH jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Hanover

• Vice President and Chief Information OfficerDartmouth College
• Chief Financial and Administrative OfficerDartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering
• Executive Director, Dartmouth DialoguesDartmouth College
• The Thomas A. 1977 and Gina T. Russo 1977 Executive DirectorDartmouth Tribal Sovereignty Institute
• PresidentUpper Valley Land Trust
• Senior Vice President for Development and Alumni RelationsDartmouth College
• Sales & Event ManagerPyramid Global Hospitality
• Guest Services ManagerPyramid Global Hospitality
• Manager, Restaurant Guest ExperiencePyramid Global Hospitality
• Hybrid Benefits Specialist: Leave & Open EnrollmentDartmouth College

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Employers hiring most in Hanover

1. Dartmouth College5 open roles
2. Pyramid Global Hospitality3 open roles
3. Confidential1 open role
4. Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering1 open role
5. Dartmouth Tribal Sovereignty Institute1 open role
6. Gratz College1 open role
7. Inside Higher Ed1 open role
8. Ledyard National Bank1 open role
9. Upper Valley Land Trust1 open role

Largest employers headquartered in Hanover

• Dartmouth Collegeabout 4,400 employees (2024)

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

Hanover layoffs

No layoff notices naming Hanover 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.

Colleges in Hanover

Grafton 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 2.8% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 2.2% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 1.6%, down 1.2 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+972 jobs), arts & recreation (+338 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−407 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Hanover. 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

Learn and get funded in Hanover

• Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
• Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Hanover. 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).

• Business and Economic Affairs, Office of Workforce Opportunity

  Serves all of New Hampshire

Grafton County economy

• 1.6%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  2.8% the month before

• 49,742

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 91,759

  people in Grafton County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $84,021

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 48%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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