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Brownsville, TX jobs, layoffs and employers

132 open professional jobs in Brownsville. Employers filed 3 layoff notices here in the last 12 months. Brownsville is in Cameron County.

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Jobs in Brownsville

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Employers hiring most in Brownsville

  1. SpaceX59 open roles
  2. Worley Group14 open roles
  3. Saronic Technologies10 open roles
  4. Bechtel9 open roles
  5. Saronic7 open roles
  6. Bechtel3 open roles
  7. GrabJobs2 open roles
  8. Saronic Technologies2 open roles
  9. Tenet Healthcare2 open roles
  10. 103 - Premier High School of Brownsville, TX1 open role

Brownsville layoffs

  • 3

    Layoff notices, last 12 months

  • 571

    workers named

    A floor: states may leave out counts

  • 1

    employer

Layoff notices filed in Brownsville, newest first
Notice dateEmployerCity or countyWorkersTypeSource
First Brands Group, LLC(Billy Mitchell)Takes effect Apr 30, 2026Cameron County345—State record
First Brands Group, LLC. (Titan Dist. Center)Takes effect Apr 30, 2026Cameron County183—State record
First Brands Group LLC.Takes effect Apr 30, 2026Cameron County43—State record

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Where Brownsville ranks

Where Brownsville placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.

November 2026

Cameron County outlook: Steady

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

  • Private-sector jobs up 3.4% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 3.0% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 5.9%, down 1.6 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: professional & technical (+2,319 jobs), hotels & food (+1,583 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−1,449 jobs), manufacturing (−689 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

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

  • WorkForce Solutions Cameron

    Brownsville · Comprehensive · 956-546-3141

    M-F 8AM-5PM

Cameron County economy

  • 5.9%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    7.5% the month before

  • 188,588

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 423,192

    people in Cameron County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $51,334

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 30%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: 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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