Morgantown, PA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Senior Estimator / Project ManagerBerg Construction
- Vice President of Engineering ~ RETAINED SEARCHSoftware Placement Group
- Executive DirectorMeet Greater Reading
- Chief Operating OfficerMeet Greater Reading
- Senior Estimator / Project ManagerBerg Construction
- Operations Supervisor LandfillRepublic Services
Employers hiring most in Morgantown
- Berg Construction2 open roles
- Meet Greater Reading2 open roles
- Republic Services1 open role
- Software Placement Group1 open role
Morgantown layoffs
No layoff notices naming Morgantown 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.
Berks 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 3.3% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 2.7% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.4%, down 1.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,304 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+1,517 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: finance & insurance (−618 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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Laid off in Pennsylvania? How to file for unemployment in Pennsylvania (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
Berks County economy
3.4%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.6% the month before
222,340
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
429,989
people in Berks County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$77,684
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 Pennsylvania’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. Pennsylvania unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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