Valdese, NC jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Manufacturing Engineer IM Force Recruiting
- Manufacturing and Maintenance ManagerM Force Staffing
- Manufacturing ManagerM Force Staffing
Employers hiring most in Valdese
- M Force Staffing2 open roles
- M Force Recruiting1 open role
Valdese layoffs
No layoff notices naming Valdese 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.
Burke 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 2.6% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 1.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.9%, down 0.8 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+343 jobs), hotels & food (+337 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−636 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Valdese. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Hickory's US Conec Pours $150M Into Expansion, Adding 224 Jobs for AI BoomHoodline · Oct 22, 2026
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Laid off in North Carolina? How to file for unemployment in North Carolina (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Western Piedmont Workforce Development Board
Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba
Burke County economy
2.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.7% the month before
38,209
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
87,863
people in Burke County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$55,684
median household income
Source: Census ACS
30%
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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