Gainesville, VA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Sales ManagerHilton Grand Vacations
- Director, Electric System OperationsNorthern Virginia Electric Cooperative
- Residential Outside Sales RepresentativeCritter Control
- Junior Data Engineer/Scientist - Washington, D.CSerco North America
- Outside Sales RepresentativeRollins
- Litigation Associate AttorneyLiberty Personnel Services
- Damage Prevention Project ManagerSAM
- SUE Project ManagerSAM
- Merchandise ManagerUlta Beauty
- Senior Automation EngineerAmazon
Employers hiring most in Gainesville
- Dewberry7 open roles
- SAM2 open roles
- Amazon1 open role
- Critter Control1 open role
- Hilton Grand Vacations1 open role
- Liberty Personnel Services1 open role
- Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative1 open role
- Rollins1 open role
- Serco North America1 open role
- Ulta Beauty1 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.
Colleges in Gainesville
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Ascent College | Private non-profit 4-year | Under 1,000 |
Prince William 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 8.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 4.2% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.5%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+4,054 jobs), construction (+2,088 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: retail (−558 jobs)
Local job-market news
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Workforce development and job centers
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- Virginia Career Works Northern Region
Fairfax, Falls Church, Loudoun, Manassas City, Prince William
Prince William County economy
3.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.3% the month before
258,641
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
484,625
people in Prince William County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$128,873
median household income
Source: Census ACS
48%
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 Virginia’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. Virginia unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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