Poughkeepsie, NY jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Poughkeepsie

• VP of Industrial ManufacturingBrainWorks
• Manager - Data GovernanceCentral Hudson
• Financial analystMichael Page
• Senior Civil Engineer/Project ManagerC.T. Male Associates
• Lead Data EngineerBridgeview
• Senior Financial AnalystCreative Financial Staffing
• Multi-Media Account ExecutiveTownsquare Media
• Senior System Administrator & Provisioning EngineerTekwissen
• System Administrator - Engineering and ProvisioningTekWissen
• General Manager II- Store 4513 Poughkeepsie, NYAdvance Auto Parts

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Employers hiring most in Poughkeepsie

1. Hudson Valley Credit Union6 open roles
2. Vassar College3 open roles
3. Advance Auto Parts1 open role
4. Arthur J. Gallagher1 open role
5. BrainWorks1 open role
6. Bridgeview1 open role
7. C.T. Male Associates1 open role
8. CCS Medical1 open role
9. Central Hudson1 open role
10. Creative Financial Staffing1 open role

Poughkeepsie layoffs

No layoff notices naming Poughkeepsie 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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Dutchess 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 8.6% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 1.5% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.7%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (+3,075 jobs), health care (+2,517 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−429 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Poughkeepsie. Each link goes to the publisher.

• Children's Home of Poughkeepsie to lay off 39, close unaccompanied migrant children programYahoo · Oct 7, 2026
• Children's Home of Poughkeepsie to lay off 39 unaccompanied migrant childrenTimes Union on MSN · Oct 7, 2026

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Poughkeepsie. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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• Dutchess County Workforce Investment Board

  Dutchess

• DC WORKS

  Poughkeepsie · Comprehensive · 845-473-9000

  M-F: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Dutchess County economy

• 3.7%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.5% the month before

• 155,583

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 297,144

  people in Dutchess County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $97,273

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 46%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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