Lancaster, SC jobs, layoffs and employers
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- HR Benefits & Onboarding SpecialistLancaster County Economic Development
- Commercial Development Program AssociateNutramax Laboratories
- Vice President of Supply ChainConfidential
- Human Resources Benefits CoordinatorLancaster County, SC
- Product/Brand Marketing ManagerScientific Search
- SB Assistant Shop ManagerStrickland Brothers
Employers hiring most in Lancaster
- Confidential1 open role
- Lancaster County Economic Development1 open role
- Lancaster County, SC1 open role
- Nutramax Laboratories1 open role
- Scientific Search1 open role
- Strickland Brothers1 open role
Lancaster layoffs
No layoff notices naming Lancaster 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.
Lancaster County outlook: Building
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 6.6% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 18.3% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.0%, down 1.0 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,087 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: management of companies (−687 jobs), professional & technical (−309 jobs)
Learn and get funded in Lancaster
- Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
- 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 Lancaster. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in South Carolina? How to file for unemployment in South Carolina (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Catawba Regional Workforce Development Board
Chester, Lancaster, York
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Lancaster County economy
4.0%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.0% the month before
52,538
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
100,905
people in Lancaster County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$74,751
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 South Carolina’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. South Carolina unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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