Wake Forest, NC jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Wake Forest

• Regional Center Director (On Site)Wake County
• Data/reporting analystGlobal Channel Management
• Corporate Administrative AssistantCrossroads Automotive Group
• Dining Services ManagerBrookdale Senior Living
• Construction Project Managergpac
• Software Quality Assurance EngineerUltra Electronics Group
• Outside Sales Representative (Wake Forest)Virginia Green
• Outside Sales RepresentativeCharter Communications
• Director Member ExperienceInvited

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Employers hiring most in Wake Forest

1. Brookdale Senior Living1 open role
2. Charter Communications1 open role
3. Crossroads Automotive Group1 open role
4. Global Channel Management1 open role
5. gpac1 open role
6. Invited1 open role
7. Ultra Electronics Group1 open role
8. Virginia Green1 open role
9. Wake County1 open role

Wake Forest layoffs

No layoff notices naming Wake Forest 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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Colleges in Wake Forest

Wake 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 7.3% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 11.2% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 2.8%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+14,686 jobs), construction (+5,705 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−452 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

• Fiction Kitchen, a Beloved Vegan Outpost in Raleigh, Will Close Its DoorsINDY Week · Nov 6, 2026
• Raleigh's Bloom Collective Café Shuts Oct. 24 as Federal Hemp Crackdown LoomsHoodline · Oct 9, 2026
• Raleigh, North Carolina, reduces IT service desk costs by 66% with ServiceNow AI agentsMarketScreener · Oct 8, 2026

Learn and get funded in Wake Forest

• 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 Wake Forest. 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).

• Capital Area Workforce Development Board

  Chatham, Johnston, Lee, Orange, Wake

• NCWorks Career Center- Capital Area (Wake Forest)

  Wake Forest · Affiliate · 919-562-6379

  Mon -Thurs 8:30am -5:00pm Fri 8:30am-2:00pm

Wake County economy

• 2.8%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.1% the month before

• 698,382

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 1,151,009

  people in Wake County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $101,763

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 57%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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