Denton, TX jobs, layoffs and employers

164 open professional jobs in Denton. Denton is in Denton County.

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Employers hiring most in Denton

  1. University of North Texas System48 open roles
  2. Texas Woman's University25 open roles
  3. Paccar19 open roles
  4. Moonshot9 open roles
  5. Denton Independent School District4 open roles
  6. Southwire3 open roles
  7. Albertsons Companies2 open roles
  8. GrabJobs2 open roles
  9. Willow Bridge Property Company2 open roles
  10. 48forty Solutions1 open role

Denton layoffs

No layoff notices naming Denton 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 Denton

Colleges in Denton
CollegeTypeStudents
University of North TexasPublic 4-year20,000+
Texas Woman's UniversityPublic 4-year10,000–19,999

Where Denton ranks

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

Denton 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 9.0% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 16.9% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 3.9%, down 0.1 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+5,010 jobs), retail (+3,461 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: management of companies (−396 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Denton. 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 - Denton

    Denton · Affiliate

    Mon 7am-5pm, Tue 8am-7pm,Wed-Fri 8am-5pm

  • Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas - Denton

    Denton · Affiliate · 940-323-4391

    Monday - Friday 8am-5pm

Denton County economy

  • 3.9%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    4.0% the month before

  • 614,643

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 945,644

    people in Denton County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $108,185

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 51%

    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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