Little River, SC jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Facility Medical Director Near North Myrtle Beach, SCTeamHealth
- General ManagerFreddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
- AccountantEncompass Health
- Director of Physician Practices - Primary Care Little River/ENTMcleod Health
- Associate Vice President of Operations - McLeod Physician Associates Coastal RegionMcleod Health
- Director of Nursing - Endoscopy Lab - McLeod Seacoast HospitalMcleod Health
Employers hiring most in Little River
- Mcleod Health3 open roles
- Encompass Health1 open role
- Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers1 open role
- TeamHealth1 open role
Little River layoffs
No layoff notices naming Little River 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.
Horry 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 4.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 20.9% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.2%, down 0.9 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,224 jobs), construction (+1,322 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Little River. 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).
- Waccanaw Workforce Development Board
Georgetown, Horry, Williamsburg
Horry County economy
4.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.1% the month before
185,328
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
368,937
people in Horry County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$64,623
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
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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