Cranston, RI jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Clinical Service Director.RIElwyn Of Pennsylvania And Delaware
- Benefits Case ManagerElwyn California
- Environmental SpecialistTriumvirate Environmental
- Clinical Education & Practice Program ManagerBrown Medicine
- Lean Portfolio ManagerLumen
- Accounting ManagerAmazing Intimate Essentials
- Marketing Manager - Hunting & ShootingSwarovski Optik North America
- Local Account ExecutiveXPO
- Field Service Project Manager - HAZMAT Emergency ResponseQualSpec
- Insurance Defense AttorneyElgen Staffing
Employers hiring most in Cranston
- CTS2 open roles
- HouseWorks2 open roles
- Penske Truck Leasing2 open roles
- Peraton2 open roles
- Albertsons Companies1 open role
- Amazing Intimate Essentials1 open role
- Brown Medicine1 open role
- Elgen Staffing1 open role
- Elwyn California1 open role
- Elwyn Of Pennsylvania And Delaware1 open role
Cranston layoffs
No layoff notices naming Cranston 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.
Providence 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 3.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 2.8% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.3%, down 0.9 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+5,389 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+3,780 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−2,424 jobs), admin & staffing (−1,718 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Cranston. Each link goes to the publisher.
- I-95 will close overnight in Cranston this weekend. Here's how to avoid it.The Draft Wire · Oct 14, 2026
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- Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
- Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
- Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Cranston. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Rhode Island? How to file for unemployment in Rhode Island (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Providence/Cranston Workforce Development Board
Cities: Cranston, Providence
- Rhode Island Governor's Workforce Board
Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington
Providence County economy
3.3%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.2% the month before
350,743
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
658,977
people in Providence County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$78,204
median household income
Source: Census ACS
41%
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 Rhode Island’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. Rhode Island unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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