Amherst, NY jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Banking Services Group Leader IIIManufacturers and Traders Trust Company
- Consumer Credit Risk Analyst IIIKeyBank
- Digital Small Business Originations Product OwnerKeyBank
- Branch ManagerKeyBank National Association
- Operations Lead - PTAt Home
- General Manager, Full Time, Amherst - Pottery BarnWilliams-Sonoma
- General ManagerChipotle Mexican Grill
- Dining Services ManagerBrookdale Senior Living
- Executive Director of Finance & PlanningConfidential
- Data Manager II - Level 1Frontier Science And Technology Research Foundation
Employers hiring most in Amherst
- Frontier Science And Technology Research Foundation3 open roles
- American Red Cross1 open role
- At Home1 open role
- Brookdale Senior Living1 open role
- Chipotle Mexican Grill1 open role
- Confidential1 open role
- Frontier Science Foundation1 open role
- Key Resource Group1 open role
- KeyBank1 open role
- KeyBank1 open role
Amherst layoffs
No layoff notices naming Amherst 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.
Colleges in Amherst
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Daemen University | Private non-profit 4-year | 1,000–4,999 |
Erie 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 up 2.9% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 0.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.2%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+10,463 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+2,878 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−1,615 jobs), admin & staffing (−1,186 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Amherst. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Buffalo Public Schools superintendent says layoffs, school closures are comingspectrumlocalnews · Nov 8, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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Erie County economy
4.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.0% the month before
467,586
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
950,044
people in Erie County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$71,175
median household income
Source: Census ACS
44%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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