Shelby, NC jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Area Manager - Floor (Fashion, Import, Jewelry, Regional, Returns, Sam's, HMSC)Walmart
- Business Development RepresentativeC.A. Short Company
- Home Health Account ExecutiveHumana Government Business
- Accounts Payable SpecialistSafety Test & Equipment
- Structural Integrity Engineer PrincipalCurtiss Wright
- Sr. Embedded Firmware Engineer (Sign on and/or Relocation Bonus available for Select Candidates!)Curtiss Wright
- Program Manager - Electro-Mechanical ActuationCurtiss Wright
- Actuation Systems Engineer, LeadCurtiss Wright
- Software Development Engineer ArchitectCurtiss Wright
- Chief Engineer -Aerospace Actuation and Actuation SystemsCurtiss Wright
Employers hiring most in Shelby
- Curtiss Wright9 open roles
- C.A. Short Company1 open role
- Cleveland Community College1 open role
- Humana Government Business1 open role
- Safety Test & Equipment1 open role
- Strickland Brothers1 open role
- Walmart1 open role
Shelby layoffs
No layoff notices naming Shelby 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.
Cleveland 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 down 1.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.4% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.7%, down 0.6 points from a year ago
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−1,079 jobs), transportation & warehousing (−459 jobs)
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- Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Shelby. 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).
- Foothills Workforce Development Board
Cleveland, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford
NCWorks Career Center- Cleveland County
Shelby · Comprehensive · 704-480-5414
Mon-Thurs 8:30am 5:00pm; Fri 8:30am-12:00pm
Cleveland County economy
3.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.3% the month before
44,212
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
100,170
people in Cleveland County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$55,769
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from North Carolina’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. North Carolina unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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