Burlington, NC jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Burlington

• Behavioral Health Program ManagerRha Health Services
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker / LCSW / Child and Family / Team Lead / IIH / $2,000 Sign On BonusRha Health Services
• Behavioral Health Team LeaderRha Health Services
• BHUC Team LeaderRha Health Services
• Behavioral Health Mobile Crisis Team LeadRha Health Services
• Additive Manufacturing Process Qualification & Supplier Development Lead EngineerAmerican Honda Motor
• Practice Leader II - ClinicalCone Health
• Medical Director – Burlington, NCi4 Search Group
• Account Executive HospiceUnitedhealth Group
• Senior Director, Payroll Projects & Payroll TimeLabcorp

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Employers hiring most in Burlington

1. Labcorp Holdings13 open roles
2. Labcorp6 open roles
3. Rha Health Services5 open roles
4. Alamance County Sheriff1 open role
5. Amedisys Home Health Care1 open role
6. American Honda Motor1 open role
7. Cone Health1 open role
8. D.R. Horton1 open role
9. Davita1 open role
10. Fidelity Building Services Group1 open role

Burlington layoffs

No layoff notices naming Burlington 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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Alamance County outlook: Building

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 8.5% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.2%, down 0.6 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (+2,255 jobs), health care (+794 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−1,188 jobs), admin & staffing (−645 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

• Pride of the Morning adds 10 employees after landing Foster's former clientsThe Business Journals · Nov 9, 2026
• NC-based produce distributor to close; 169 layoffs in Forsyth CountyWFMY-TV Greensboro on MSN · Oct 26, 2026
• Foster USA plants to permanently close multiple locations including Forsyth County, WARN saysWFMY News 2 on MSN · Oct 26, 2026

Learn and get funded in Burlington

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

Laid off in North Carolina? How to file for unemployment in North Carolina (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

• Piedmont Triad Regional Workforce Development Board

  Alamance, Caswell, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin

• NCWorks Career Center- Alamance County

  Burlington · Comprehensive · 336-570-6800

  Monday-Friday 8:30am 5:00pm Closed for Lunch 11:45am-1:15pm

Alamance County economy

• 3.2%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.8% the month before

• 83,676

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 174,286

  people in Alamance County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $64,445

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 36%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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