Somerville, NJ jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Associate Attorney – Real Estate & Land UseOrion Placement
- Trade Marketing Coordinator at Marcolin EyewearWayne State
- Executive DirectorCentral Jersey Housing Resource Center (CJHRC)
- Managing DirectorFinPro
- Process EngineerViscofan
- Senior Account ExecutiveRED Global
- Associate Account Executive – (Philadelphia and South Jersey) - Johnson & Johnson MedTech - SurgeryJohnson & Johnson
- Medical Director of Psychiatric Emergency Screening Services in SomervilleRWJBarnabas Health
- Executive DirectorCentral Jersey Housing Resource Center
- RecruiterGoodwinRecruiting
Employers hiring most in Somerville
- Central Jersey Housing Resource Center1 open role
- Central Jersey Housing Resource Center (CJHRC)1 open role
- FinPro1 open role
- GoodwinRecruiting1 open role
- Johnson & Johnson1 open role
- Orion Placement1 open role
- RED Global1 open role
- RWJBarnabas Health1 open role
- Virtual Company1 open role
- Viscofan1 open role
Somerville layoffs
No layoff notices naming Somerville 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.
Somerset 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 1.0% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.7%, down 1.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: professional & technical (+2,873 jobs), health care (+2,399 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−3,402 jobs), management of companies (−2,506 jobs)
Learn and get funded in Somerville
- 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 Somerville. 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).
- Greater Raritan Workforce Development Board
Hunterdon, Somerset
Greater Raritan One-Stop Career Center
Somerville · Affiliate · 908-704-3000
Monday - Friday 8:30am- 4:30pm
Somerset County economy
3.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.0% the month before
195,616
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
346,203
people in Somerset County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$135,960
median household income
Source: Census ACS
57%
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 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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