Jacksonville, NC jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Jacksonville

• Production Planner I/II/IIIMSA Safety
• Inside Sales Representative II Sales - Inside SalesBuilders FirstSource
• Core Enterprise Account Executive South EastSamsara
• Exciting Chief Medical Officer Opening | Raleigh, NC | $425K+Jackson Physician Search
• Global Head of Procurement Technology & AIApex Group Ltd (UK Branch)
• Global Head of Procurement Technology & AIApex Group
• Senior Healthcare Facility PlannerHaskell
• Senior AccountantCareer Foundations
• SPECIAL NEEDS INCLUSION COORDINATOR (SNIC), NF-1701-04 (NF-04)U.S. Marine Corps
• Outside Sales RepresentativeCharter Communications

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Employers hiring most in Jacksonville

1. U.S. Marine Corps2 open roles
2. Apex Group1 open role
3. Apex Group Ltd (UK Branch)1 open role
4. Builders FirstSource1 open role
5. Career Foundations1 open role
6. Charter Communications1 open role
7. Haskell1 open role
8. Jackson Physician Search1 open role
9. MSA Safety1 open role
10. Samsara1 open role

Jacksonville layoffs

No layoff notices naming Jacksonville 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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Onslow 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 3.7% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 5.9% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.4%, down 0.4 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+564 jobs), hotels & food (+390 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−493 jobs), retail (−302 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

• Norfolk Southern reschedules New Bern crossing closure to 6 a.m. TuesdayWCTI on MSN · Oct 5, 2026

Learn and get funded in Jacksonville

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

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• Eastern Carolina Workforce Development Board, Inc.

  Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Pamlico, Wayne

• NCWorks Career Center- Onslow County

  Jacksonville · Comprehensive · 910-347-2121

  Monday - 8:30 am - 4:00 pm, Tuesday - Friday - 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Onslow County economy

• 3.4%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.8% the month before

• 71,803

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 208,537

  people in Onslow County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $64,568

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 34%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS