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Lancaster, NY jobs, layoffs and employers

9 open professional jobs in Lancaster. Lancaster is in Erie County.

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Jobs in Lancaster

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Employers hiring most in Lancaster

  1. Amazon3 open roles
  2. Cintas2 open roles
  3. Cascades1 open role
  4. Chipotle Mexican Grill1 open role
  5. Oetiker1 open role
  6. Tcgrecruit1 open role

Lancaster layoffs

No layoff notices naming Lancaster 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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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)

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Lancaster. 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).

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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Sources: 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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