Athens, TX jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Pharmacy Operations ManagerWalgreens
- Facilities ManagerExpress Employment Professionals Defunct
Employers hiring most in Athens
- Express Employment Professionals Defunct1 open role
- Walgreens1 open role
Athens layoffs
No layoff notices naming Athens 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.
Henderson 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 7.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 7.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.6%, down 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: hotels & food (+513 jobs), wholesale (+400 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Athens. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Texas? How to file for unemployment in Texas (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- East Texas Workforce Development Board
Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Marion, Panola, Rains, Rusk, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood
Workforce Solutions East Texas - Athens
Athens · Comprehensive · 903-677-3521
Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm
Henderson County economy
4.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.7% the month before
37,898
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
83,658
people in Henderson County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$63,955
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 Texas’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. Texas unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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