Hood River, OR jobs, layoffs and employers

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Show me jobs near meJobs in Hood River
- CNC Machining ManagerHeico
- Composites Manufacturing EngineerHeico
- Restaurant FOH + BOH Manager Openings | Restaurant ManagementGecko Hospitality
- Regional Director of Finance to $160K +Gecko Hospitality
- Senior Software Engineer, Integration and TestNawork
- Electrical EngineerNawork
- Quality EngineerNawork
- Embedded Software Engineer - Lead [Video Systems]Nawork
- Manager Clinical PharmacySwedish Health Services
- Hazardous Waste Operations Managerwm
Employers hiring most in Hood River
- Nawork4 open roles
- Gecko Hospitality2 open roles
- Swedish Health Services2 open roles
- Heico1 open role
- Trillium Engineering1 open role
- wm1 open role
Hood River layoffs
No layoff notices naming Hood River 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.
Hood River 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 0.2% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 0.7% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.9%, down 0.9 points from a year ago
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Hood River. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
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Hood River County economy
2.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.8% the month before
15,080
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
23,958
people in Hood River County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$82,095
median household income
Source: Census ACS
42%
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 Oregon’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. Oregon unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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