Ithaca, NY jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Ithaca

• Director of Engineering & Transportation, Public WorksCity of Ithaca Human Resources Department
• Branch ManagerKeyBank
• Compliance Specialist, IACUCCornell University
• Group Sales Manager, The Statler HotelCornell University
• Director of Behavioral Services – Inpatient Behavioral HealthGreat Bay Staffing
• RN Director of Perioperative ServicesFood Management Search
• Director of Behavioral ServicesFood Management Search
• Territory Manager (NY, Ithaca)Charlie Health
• Director, Government & Community Relations, Cornell Tech (NYC)Cornell University
• IT Service ManagerCornell University

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Employers hiring most in Ithaca

1. Ithaca College29 open roles
2. Cornell University16 open roles
3. Tompkins Bank & Trust9 open roles
4. Top Echelon Network (recruiter member boards)3 open roles
5. Arthur J. Gallagher2 open roles
6. Brookdale Senior Living2 open roles
7. Confidential2 open roles
8. Food Management Search2 open roles
9. Gallagher2 open roles
10. Gallagher Bassett2 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in Ithaca

• Cornell University5,001–20,000 employees

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

Ithaca layoffs

No layoff notices naming Ithaca 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 Ithaca

Tompkins County outlook: Cooling

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

• Private-sector jobs up 0.1% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 1.4% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.4%, up 0.3 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (+410 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−300 jobs)

Learn and get funded in Ithaca

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

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• Tompkins County Workforce Development Board

  Tompkins

• Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center - Ithaca

  Ithaca · Comprehensive · 607-272-7570

  M-F: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Tompkins County economy

• 4.4%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.1% the month before

• 49,562

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 102,879

  people in Tompkins County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $73,012

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 59%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS