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Piscataway, NJ jobs, layoffs and employers

115 open professional jobs in Piscataway. Employers filed 1 layoff notices here in the last 12 months. Piscataway is in Middlesex County.

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Employers hiring most in Piscataway

  1. Colgate Palmolive50 open roles
  2. Amneal Pharmaceuticals18 open roles
  3. Element Solutions10 open roles
  4. Rutgers University4 open roles
  5. Humanscale3 open roles
  6. IEEE3 open roles
  7. Breakthrough T1D2 open roles
  8. Ferraro Foods2 open roles
  9. Garden State AGNC2 open roles
  10. Jacobs Management Group2 open roles

Piscataway layoffs

  • 1

    Layoff notices, last 12 months

  • 79

    workers named

    A floor: states may leave out counts

  • 1

    employer

Layoff notices filed in Piscataway, newest first
Notice dateEmployerCity or countyWorkersTypeSource
Fusion Transport LLCTakes effect Oct 1, 2026Piscataway79—State record

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Where Piscataway ranks

Where Piscataway placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.

November 2026

Middlesex 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 0.5% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 2.6% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 4.2%, down 1.6 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+9,033 jobs), finance & insurance (+1,522 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−9,708 jobs), retail (−2,376 jobs)

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Middlesex County economy

  • 4.2%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    5.8% the month before

  • 458,606

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 861,535

    people in Middlesex County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $109,028

    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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