Gainesville, TX jobs, layoffs and employers
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- In-Person Sales Development RepresentativeExcel Gens
- Production SupervisorSnelling
- Outside Sales Representative - Denison/West Gainesville, TXUniFirst
- Fleet Safety & Compliance AnalystSelect Water Solutions
- Front End Entry LevelAlbertsons Companies
- Financial AnalystBSC Administration
- Reliability Engineer IGAF
- Market President - Gainesville TexasThinking Ahead
- General ManagerFreddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
Employers hiring most in Gainesville
- Albertsons Companies1 open role
- BSC Administration1 open role
- Excel Gens1 open role
- Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers1 open role
- GAF1 open role
- Select Water Solutions1 open role
- Snelling1 open role
- Thinking Ahead1 open role
- UniFirst1 open role
Gainesville layoffs
No layoff notices naming Gainesville 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.
Cooke 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 12.3% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 6.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.4%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: mining & energy (+1,013 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Gainesville. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Denison announces update on Waterloo Pool closure, including plans to remove old infrastructureKXII on MSN · Oct 6, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Gainesville. 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).
- Texoma Workforce Development Board/Dba Workforce Solutions Texoma
Cooke, Fannin, Grayson
Workforce Solutions Texoma
Gainesville · Affiliate · 940-665-1121
Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm
Cooke County economy
3.4%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.6% the month before
22,800
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
42,473
people in Cooke County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$72,472
median household income
Source: Census ACS
32%
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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