Shaker Heights, OH jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Senior Engineering ManagerEnercon
- Engineering Project Manager - Mid, Senior or PrincipalEnercon
- Procurement SpecialistBLDC Design
- Tax DirectorLanding Point
- Chief Operating OfficerHathaway Brown School
- Associate Head of SchoolHathaway Brown School
Employers hiring most in Shaker Heights
- Enercon2 open roles
- Hathaway Brown School2 open roles
- BLDC Design1 open role
- Landing Point1 open role
Shaker Heights layoffs
No layoff notices naming Shaker Heights 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.
Cuyahoga 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 2.5% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 2.4% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.0%, down 1.4 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: arts & recreation (+2,061 jobs), hotels & food (+2,029 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: finance & insurance (−9,065 jobs), admin & staffing (−6,756 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Shaker Heights. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Layoffs hit News 5 Cleveland as parent company Scripps cuts 431 jobscleveland.com · Oct 29, 2026
- Cleveland’s big lesson for Seattle: A city’s job is to attract peopleGeekwire on MSN · Oct 20, 2026
- More Ohio Starbucks locations added to list of closing storesThe Columbus Dispatch · Sep 30, 2026
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- Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
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Laid off in Ohio? How to file for unemployment in Ohio (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
Cuyahoga County economy
2.0%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.4% the month before
629,048
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
1,249,418
people in Cuyahoga County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$62,823
median household income
Source: Census ACS
44%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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