Bastrop, TX jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Banking Center President (Full Time) - BastropProsperity Bancshares
- Territory Sales RepresentativeTrue North Group
- Principal Electrical Engineer, AI Satellites (Starmind)SpaceX
- Director, Starlink Production (Assembly)SpaceX
- Starlink Product Growth Director (Pricing & Monetization Strategy)SpaceX
- Sr. Manager, Product Growth Strategy (Starlink)SpaceX
- Sr. Recruiter, High Volume Manufacturing (Starlink)SpaceX
- Sr. Recruiter, Go-To-Market (Starlink)SpaceX
- Sr. IT Wireless Network EngineerSpaceX
- Sr. IT Network EngineerSpaceX
Employers hiring most in Bastrop
- SpaceX408 open roles
- Worley Group4 open roles
- Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System3 open roles
- Cen-Tex Family Services2 open roles
- Bosun USA1 open role
- Darling Ingredients1 open role
- Enhabit Home Health & Hospice1 open role
- LCRA1 open role
- Prosperity Bancshares1 open role
- Spacex1 open role
Bastrop layoffs
No layoff notices naming Bastrop 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.
Bastrop 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 10.0% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 21.3% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.7%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: construction (+534 jobs), hotels & food (+448 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: information (−569 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Bastrop. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Thursday morning fire prompts temporary closure at Wingstop in Cedar ParkKVUE on MSN · Oct 22, 2026
Learn and get funded in Bastrop
- 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 Bastrop. 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).
- Rural Capital Area Workforce Development Board, Inc.
Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Llano, Williamson
Workforce Solutions - Rural Capital Area Bastrop County
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Bastrop County economy
3.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.9% the month before
58,703
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
102,370
people in Bastrop County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$82,730
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
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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