Pennington, NJ jobs, layoffs and employers

27 open professional jobs in Pennington. Pennington is in Mercer County.

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Employers hiring most in Pennington

  1. Bank of America2 open roles
  2. HAMILTON Insurance Group2 open roles
  3. Acturhire1 open role
  4. Adecco1 open role
  5. ARC Risk and Compliance1 open role
  6. Artech1 open role
  7. Capital Health System1 open role
  8. CONTACT of Mercer County1 open role
  9. Contemporarystaffing1 open role
  10. Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates (HYA)1 open role

Pennington layoffs

No layoff notices naming Pennington 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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Mercer 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 down 1.4% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 3.3% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 4.2%, down 1.7 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+3,012 jobs), hotels & food (+709 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−2,591 jobs), finance & insurance (−1,182 jobs)

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Mercer County economy

  • 4.2%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    5.9% the month before

  • 197,461

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 383,286

    people in Mercer County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $96,333

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 49%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: Layoff notices from New Jersey’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 Jersey unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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