Canandaigua, NY jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Chief Nursing Officer - Thompson HealthAMN Healthcare, Executive & Physician Leadership Solutions
- Equipment Reliability Engineer (Starlink/Akoustis)SpaceX
- Process Engineer (Starlink/Akoustis) - Day ShiftSpaceX
- Process Engineer (Starlink/Akoustis) - Night ShiftSpaceX
- Software Engineer (Starlink/Akoustis)SpaceX
- RF Test Engineer (Starlink/Akoustis)SpaceX
- Claims Examiner I - NY State Statutory DBL and PFLReliance-Matrix
- Chief Nursing Officer - Thompson HealthAMN Healthcare
- Chief Nursing Officer-CNOThompson Health
- Director of OperationsCanandaigua Montessori School
Employers hiring most in Canandaigua
- SpaceX5 open roles
- AMN Healthcare1 open role
- AMN Healthcare, Executive & Physician Leadership Solutions1 open role
- Canandaigua Montessori School1 open role
- Novolex1 open role
- Novolex Corporate1 open role
- Reliance-Matrix1 open role
- The Arc Ontario1 open role
- Thompson Health1 open role
- Veterans Health Administration1 open role
Canandaigua layoffs
No layoff notices naming Canandaigua 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.
Ontario 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 5.2% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 0.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, up 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: admin & staffing (+1,359 jobs), health care (+830 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−482 jobs), retail (−326 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Canandaigua. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in New York? How to file for unemployment in New York (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Finger Lakes Workforce Investment Board, Inc.
Ontario, Seneca, Wayne, Yates
Finger Lakes Works - Ontario
Canandaigua · Affiliate · 585-396-4020
Monday - Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Ontario County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.3% the month before
56,225
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
112,405
people in Ontario County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$79,814
median household income
Source: Census ACS
44%
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 York’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 York unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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