Summit, NJ jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Defined Contribution Research and Consulting, Vice PresidentCallan
- Chief Financial Officer, Atlantic Health Overlook Medical CenterAtlantic Health System
- Director, Medical ImagingAtlantic Health System
- Section Chief, Neuroradiology - Atlantic Health Overlook Medical CenterAtlantic Health System
- Chief Development Officer: Growth & Donor StrategyInside Philanthropy
- Senior Manager, Revenue Integrity & GTN OperationsCSL
- Legal SecretaryState Farm
- Senior Financial AnalystClark Davis Associates
- Senior UI/UX DesignerVOX Global
- Compliance & Training Data Analyst (12-Month Contract)Source One Technical Solutions
Employers hiring most in Summit
- ImmunityBio7 open roles
- Atlantic Health System3 open roles
- Callan2 open roles
- EPIC Insurance Brokers2 open roles
- Source One Technical Solutions2 open roles
- APN Consulting1 open role
- Atlantic Health1 open role
- Atlantic Health Services1 open role
- Bristol Myers Squibb1 open role
- Circana1 open role
Summit layoffs
No layoff notices naming Summit 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.
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 Summit
- 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.
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- Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Summit. 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 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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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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