Portsmouth, RI jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Sr. Hardware Quality EngineerRTX
- Electrical Engineer II - OnsiteRTX
- Manufacturing Engineer IIRTX
- Senior Power Design Electrical EngineerRTX
- Systems Engineer II, Onsite RIRTX
- Digital Program LeadRTX
- Sr. Manufacturing Supplier Quality EngineerRTX
- Manufacturing/Production SupervisorRTX
- Sr. Program Manager - NSSRTX
- Ship Systems Integration and Sustainment (SSIS) Engineering Design and Change Management Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL)RTX
Employers hiring most in Portsmouth
Portsmouth layoffs
No layoff notices naming Portsmouth 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.
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
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Portsmouth. 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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Laid off in Rhode Island? How to file for unemployment in Rhode Island (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Rhode Island Governor's Workforce Board
Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington
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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