Bennington, VT jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Bennington

• RN-Director of Nursing-Assisted LivingBrookdale Senior Living
• Vice President, Ambulatory ServicesDartmouth-Hitchcock Health
• Staffed Living Program CoordinatorUnited Counseling Service of Bennington County
• Engineering ManagerMinerals Technologies
• Senior Accountant or Assistant ControllerAcctPositions
• Communications CoordinatorVermont League of Cities and Towns
• Public Communications Coordinator - Townwide OutreachVermont League of Cities & Towns
• Vice President, Ambulatory ServicesDartmouth-Hitchcock Health
• Director of Clinical EducationSouthwestern Vermont Healthcare
• VP - Associate General Counsel, Labor and EmploymentMaximus

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Employers hiring most in Bennington

1. Dartmouth Health4 open roles
2. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health2 open roles
3. Southwestern Vermont Healthcare2 open roles
4. United Counseling Service of Bennington County2 open roles
5. AcctPositions1 open role
6. Brookdale Senior Living1 open role
7. Maximus1 open role
8. Minerals Technologies1 open role
9. Northeast Grocery1 open role
10. Vermont League of Cities & Towns1 open role

Bennington layoffs

No layoff notices naming Bennington 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 Bennington

Bennington 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 0.9% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 1.8% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.1%, up 0.1 points from a year ago
• Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−386 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Bennington. Each link goes to the publisher.

• VIP layoffs raise questions about AI’s role in changing Vermont workforceWCAX on MSN · Oct 22, 2026
• A Colchester Tech Firm Has Been Leaning Into AI. It’s Laying Off 66 People.Seven Days · Oct 20, 2026
• Layoffs announced at Vermont Information Processing in ColchesterVTDigger · Oct 20, 2026
• How Vermont is leveraging AI across government, one ‘power tool’ at a timeStateScoop · Oct 2, 2026

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Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Bennington. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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• Office of Workforce Strategy & Development

  Serves all of Vermont

• Bennington Resource Center, Vermont Department of Labor

  Bennington · Affiliate · 802-442-6376

  In Person (Walk-in & By Appt): M-Thurs 9am-12pm; 1pm-4pm Virtual: Fridays 9am-12pm; 1pm-4pm and By Appt

Bennington County economy

• 3.1%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.0% the month before

• 17,277

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 37,312

  people in Bennington County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $71,494

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 45%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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