Middletown, RI jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Middletown

• Client Services Associate - Middletown, RISavant
• Software Systems Engineer - Integration & Test JobsClearanceJobs
• Systems Engineer IVSeacorp
• Electrical/Electronics Engineer - Unmanned System Payload DesignSeacorp
• Combat Systems Test and Integration EngineerSeacorp
• Senior IT Project EngineerSeacorp
• Senior Network Engineer – COMSEC / Secure NetworksSeacorp
• Electrical Engineer IIISeacorp
• Software Engineer IV - AISeacorp
• Contracts ManagerSeacorp

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Employers hiring most in Middletown

1. Seacorp22 open roles
2. Arcfield11 open roles
3. American Systems9 open roles
4. RTX6 open roles
5. Sonalysts3 open roles
6. ClearanceJobs2 open roles
7. Jobot2 open roles
8. Newport Mental Health1 open role
9. Safeway1 open role
10. Savant1 open role

Middletown layoffs

No layoff notices naming Middletown 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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Newport 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 6.1% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 2.9% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 2.3%, down 0.7 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: professional & technical (+812 jobs), hotels & food (+409 jobs)

Local job-market news

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Workforce development and job centers

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Newport County economy

• 2.3%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.0% the month before

• 41,772

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 85,095

  people in Newport County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $100,859

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 48%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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