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Murfreesboro, TN jobs, layoffs and employers

50 open professional jobs in Murfreesboro. Murfreesboro is in Rutherford County.

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Jobs in Murfreesboro

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Employers hiring most in Murfreesboro

  1. Amazon5 open roles
  2. Mahle5 open roles
  3. Veterans Health Administration4 open roles
  4. Granite Telecommunications3 open roles
  5. Oshkosh3 open roles
  6. Ascension Calumet Hospital2 open roles
  7. Clagam Global Solutions2 open roles
  8. Creative Financial Staffing2 open roles
  9. Morgan & Morgan2 open roles
  10. Wilson Bank Holding2 open roles

Murfreesboro layoffs

No layoff notices naming Murfreesboro 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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Colleges in Murfreesboro

Colleges in Murfreesboro
CollegeTypeStudents
Middle Tennessee State UniversityPublic 4-year20,000+

Rutherford 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 5.6% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 12.5% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 2.7%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+3,080 jobs), wholesale (+1,360 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−514 jobs), professional & technical (−388 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Murfreesboro. 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).

  • American Job Center of Tennessee - Murfreesboro

    Murfreesboro · Comprehensive · 615-898-8081

    8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday

Rutherford County economy

  • 2.7%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    3.0% the month before

  • 214,456

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 351,591

    people in Rutherford County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $82,588

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 39%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: 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; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. Tennessee unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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