Elizabeth, NJ jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Elizabeth

• Project EngineerPost Holdings
• Training CoordinatorPost Consumer Brands
• Senior Technical Program Manager, FragranceOsmo
• Bilingual Strategic Cuisines Account Executive (Spanish) - Elizabeth, NJToast
• Credit AnalystIllinois Tool Works
• Airfreight Logistics CoordinatorMainfreight Americas
• Quality Assurance Supplier Compliance AuditorWakefern Food
• Staff AccountantLHH
• Sales Representative - ElizabethLemaitre Vascular
• Inside Sales Representative I Sales - Inside SalesBuilders FirstSource

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Employers hiring most in Elizabeth

1. Maersk Company2 open roles
2. ScaleForward2 open roles
3. ArtPride New Jersey1 open role
4. Builders FirstSource1 open role
5. Business Excellence Group1 open role
6. Gellert Global Group1 open role
7. Illinois Tool Works1 open role
8. Immigration and Customs Enforcement1 open role
9. Law Office of Lawrence M. Centanni, P.C.1 open role
10. Lemaitre Vascular1 open role

Elizabeth layoffs

No layoff notices naming Elizabeth 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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Colleges in Elizabeth

Union 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 1.8% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 4.9% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.4%, down 1.7 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+3,499 jobs), manufacturing (+3,415 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: professional & technical (−2,627 jobs), retail (−1,321 jobs)

Learn and get funded in Elizabeth

• 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 Elizabeth. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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

• Union County Workforce Development Board

  Union

• Union County One Stop Career Center - Elizabeth

  Elizabeth · Comprehensive

  Temporarily Closed

Union County economy

• 4.4%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  6.1% the month before

• 306,181

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 572,549

  people in Union County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $100,117

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 41%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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