Hershey, PA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Hershey

• Division Chief, Pediatric Gastroenterology - Leadership & GrowthOregon GUT Club
• Sr Product Mgr End User TechnologiesHershey
• Production SupervisorHershey
• Health Information Management Data Integrity Analyst - Health Information ManagementPenn State Health
• Division Chief of Infectious DiseasesConfidential
• Director, Animal Resource Program; Chief, Division of Comparative MedicinePenn State University
• Procurement ManagerRobert Half
• Sr Brand Manager Reese'sHershey's
• Accounting ManagerMilton Hershey School
• Strategic Global Trade Compliance ManagerPRI Global

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Employers hiring most in Hershey

1. Hershey41 open roles
2. Hershey6 open roles
3. Penn State Health5 open roles
4. Milton Hershey School4 open roles
5. Penn State Milton Hershey Medical Center3 open roles
6. Confidential1 open role
7. Hershey's1 open role
8. Oregon GUT Club1 open role
9. Penn State University1 open role
10. PRI Global1 open role

Largest employers headquartered in Hershey

• Hershey5,001–20,000 employees

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Hershey layoffs

No layoff notices naming Hershey 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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Dauphin 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 3.9% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 2.3% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.2%, down 1.4 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+5,766 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+1,655 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−1,933 jobs), admin & staffing (−1,425 jobs)

Learn and get funded in Hershey

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• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Hershey. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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• South Central Workforce Development Board

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Dauphin County economy

• 3.2%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  4.6% the month before

• 150,236

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 287,484

  people in Dauphin County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $74,159

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 42%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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