McAllen, TX jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Territory Manager-McAllenTom Trese Networking
- Territory Manager-McAllenKB Search Team
- Vice President, OperationsSteel Partners Holdings
- Staff AccountantExpress Employment Professionals
- Regional Manager, Affordable HousingAsset Living
- Senior Safety Engineer IMortenson
- MEP Project Manager I & IIMortenson
- Quality Manager - ScrewwormMortenson
- Bilingual Strategic Cuisines Account Executive (Spanish) - McAllen TXToast
- Territory Manager-McAllenFood Management Search
Employers hiring most in McAllen
- Mortenson5 open roles
- Universal Hospital Services5 open roles
- Consor3 open roles
- GPAC2 open roles
- LMI2 open roles
- PlainsCapital Bank2 open roles
- U.S. Renal Care2 open roles
- 1st Fire Protection Services1 open role
- Asset Living1 open role
- Barbachano International1 open role
McAllen layoffs
No layoff notices naming McAllen 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.
Hidalgo 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 6.9% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 5.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 5.6%, down 0.8 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+9,623 jobs), hotels & food (+3,267 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: private education (−1,455 jobs), admin & staffing (−779 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving McAllen. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
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- Lower Rio Grande Valley Workforce Development Board
Hidalgo, Starr, Willacy
Workforce Solutions Loweer Rio Grande Valley -South McAllen
Mcallen · Affiliate · 956-302-0800
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
Hidalgo County economy
5.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
6.4% the month before
407,230
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
880,921
people in Hidalgo County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$52,281
median household income
Source: Census ACS
28%
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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