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Tennessee jobs and job market: layoffs, colleges and workforce help

Tennessee’s unemployment rate is 3.4%. 4,651 open professional jobs are listed here. Employers filed 57 layoff notices in the last 12 months. Choose a county or city for the same picture closer to home.

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Tennessee economy

  • 3.4%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    3.5% the month before

  • 3,490,233

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 6,986,082

    people in Tennessee

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $67,097

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 39%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Tennessee 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 2.1% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 5.6% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 3.3%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+43,236 jobs), hotels & food (+15,962 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−26,896 jobs), manufacturing (−10,127 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Tennessee. Each link goes to the publisher.

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Tennessee layoffs

  • 57

    Layoff notices, last 12 months

  • 7,378

    workers named

    A floor: states may leave out counts

  • 56

    employers

Layoff notices filed in Tennessee, newest first
Notice dateEmployerCity or countyWorkersTypeSource
Tsubaki NakashimaTakes effect Dec 17, 2027Tsubaki Nakashima73—State record
Del Mar MedicalTakes effect Dec 31, 2026Wilson County52—State record
General Jackson ShowboatTakes effect Dec 15, 2026Davidson County114—State record
Pepsi Bottling GroupTakes effect Jan 1, 2027Knox County112—State record
Akzo NobelTakes effect Dec 31, 2026Davidson County76—State record
Kilgore Flares Company, LLCTakes effect Oct 31, 2026Hardeman County127—State record
Identity GroupTakes effect Oct 20, 2026Putnam County63—State record
WiseHardin County129—State record
Resource LabelTakes effect Oct 3, 2026Williamson County68—State record
TiktokTakes effect Oct 5, 2026Davidson County250—State record

All layoff notices in the state

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Employers hiring most in Tennessee

Employers with the most open professional roles on our job board right now.

  1. Oracle213 open roles
  2. Amazon169 open roles
  3. University of Tennessee System103 open roles
  4. University of Tennessee82 open roles
  5. UT-Battelle (ORNL)67 open roles
  6. Vanderbilt University65 open roles
  7. SpaceX59 open roles
  8. Vanderbilt University Medical Center58 open roles
  9. Sargent & Lundy43 open roles
  10. LifePoint Health38 open roles
  11. BWX Technologies33 open roles
  12. Belmont University32 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in Tennessee

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Higher education in Tennessee

  • 50

    public and private non-profit colleges

    Source: IPEDS, U.S. Department of Education

  • about 363,000

    students enrolled

    Estimated from size bands

Largest colleges in Tennessee

Largest colleges in Tennessee
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Middle Tennessee State UniversityMurfreesboroPublic 4-year20,000+
The University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleKnoxvillePublic 4-year20,000+
University of MemphisMemphisPublic 4-year20,000+
Austin Peay State UniversityClarksvillePublic 4-year10,000–19,999
East Tennessee State UniversityJohnson CityPublic 4-year10,000–19,999
Tennessee Technological UniversityCookevillePublic 4-year10,000–19,999
The University of Tennessee-ChattanoogaChattanoogaPublic 4-year10,000–19,999
Vanderbilt UniversityNashvillePrivate non-profit 4-year10,000–19,999
Belmont UniversityNashvillePrivate non-profit 4-year5,000–9,999
Lincoln Memorial UniversityHarrogatePrivate non-profit 4-year5,000–9,999
Lipscomb UniversityNashvillePrivate non-profit 4-year5,000–9,999
Tennessee State UniversityNashvillePublic 4-year5,000–9,999

All 50 Tennessee colleges

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Tennessee. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in Tennessee? How to file for unemployment in Tennessee (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

65 American Job Centers in Tennessee

Job fairs and business events in Tennessee

Hiring events, career workshops, small-business counseling and startup events from chambers, job centers, workforce boards, colleges and economic-development groups in Tennessee.

Conferences in Tennessee

Industry conferences and trade shows held in Tennessee, the ones worth a trip for hiring managers and job seekers. 54 with dates announced.

Showing 24 of 65 conferences, 54 with dates announced.

All conferences

Tennessee counties

Each county page has its own unemployment, layoffs, job openings, employers, colleges and job centers.

Show all 95

Tennessee cities

Cities with open jobs, layoff notices, a job center or a college.

Show all 104

Laid off or looking for work in Tennessee?

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See your options after a layoff

Sources: Census Bureau and BLS for population, income and unemployment; layoff notices from Tennessee’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. Tennessee unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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