Independence, OH jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Sr. Excess Casualty Underwriter, Account Executive OfficerTravelers Companies
- Branch ManagerKeyBank National Association
- Staff AccountantCFS
- Staff AccountantAAA - Automobile Club of Southern California
- Senior Services EngineerHoneywell International
- Vice President OperationsHR Pals
- Electrical EngineerGreat Oaks Engineered Solutions
- Senior AccountantCBIZ
- Senior AccountantAxelon
- Wealth ManagerFocus Financial Partners
Employers hiring most in Independence
- Honeywell International6 open roles
- Charter Communications5 open roles
- CBIZ3 open roles
- AAA - Automobile Club of Southern California1 open role
- Actalent1 open role
- Alzheimer's Association1 open role
- Axelon1 open role
- BrightSpring Health Services1 open role
- CFS1 open role
- ConsultNet1 open role
Independence layoffs
No layoff notices naming Independence 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.
Washington 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 2.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 2.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.8%, down 0.4 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+766 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−319 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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Laid off in Ohio? How to file for unemployment in Ohio (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- OhioMeansJobs - Area 15 Workforce Development Board
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Washington County economy
3.8%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.2% the month before
27,000
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
59,318
people in Washington County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$61,355
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 Ohio’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. Ohio unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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