Massillon, OH jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Investigator/Human Services Program Administrator 2State of Ohio
- Oil Change Shop Manager - Shop#3077 - 2455 Lincoln Way EDriven Brands Holdings
- Branch ManagerPNC Financial Services Group
- Transportation CoordinatorPepsico
- Outside Sales RepresentativeIES Holdings
- Facility ManagerDbo
- Staff Accountant (NonProfit)Creative Financial Staffing
- Project Manager / Superintendent - Special ProjectsGPAC
- Project CoordinatorArmstrong
- HR & Compliance Admin AssistantMidwest Health Services
Employers hiring most in Massillon
- Armstrong1 open role
- Creative Financial Staffing1 open role
- Dbo1 open role
- Driven Brands Holdings1 open role
- EssilorLuxottica1 open role
- Giant Eagle1 open role
- GPAC1 open role
- IES Holdings1 open role
- Kafkis1 open role
- Midwest Health Services1 open role
Massillon layoffs
No layoff notices naming Massillon 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.
Stark 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 0.2% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.7%, down 0.6 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,406 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+2,050 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: finance & insurance (−1,918 jobs), admin & staffing (−1,199 jobs)
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- Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
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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).
- Stark Tuscarawas Workforce Development Board
Stark, Tuscarawas
Stark County economy
3.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.3% the month before
178,700
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
373,764
people in Stark County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$65,740
median household income
Source: Census ACS
35%
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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