Hempstead, NY jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Hempstead

• Compliance Coordinator Home CareFood Management Search
• Vice President OperationsMaxima Apparel
• Regional Immigration Attorney & Training LeadOffice of the Appellate Defender
• Senior Associate Dean — Engineering Leadership & StrategyInside Higher Ed
• Senior Associate Dean/Vice Dean, DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied ScienceInside Higher Ed
• Tax ManagerLanding Point
• Director of Identity and Information SecurityHofstra University
• Group Benefits SpecialistAcrisure
• Overnight Logistics CoordinatorROCS Grad Staffing
• Resident DirectorHofstra University

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Employers hiring most in Hempstead

1. Hofstra University2 open roles
2. Inside Higher Ed2 open roles
3. Acrisure1 open role
4. Food Management Search1 open role
5. Landing Point1 open role
6. Maxima Apparel1 open role
7. Office of the Appellate Defender1 open role
8. ROCS Grad Staffing1 open role

Largest employers headquartered in Hempstead

• Hofstra University1,001–5,000 employees

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Hempstead layoffs

No layoff notices naming Hempstead 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.

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Colleges in Hempstead

Nassau 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 2.8% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 0.6% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.7%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+9,168 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+3,993 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: finance & insurance (−2,623 jobs), information (−1,656 jobs)

Learn and get funded in Hempstead

• 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 Hempstead. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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• Hempstead/Long Beach Workforce Development Board

  Town: Hempstead

• Oyster Bay - North Hempstead - Glen Cove Workforce Investment Board

  Nassau

• HempsteadWorks Career Center

  Hempstead · Comprehensive · 516-485-5000

  M-F: 9:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Nassau County economy

• 3.7%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.5% the month before

• 718,633

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 1,388,138

  people in Nassau County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $143,408

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 50%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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