Waynesboro, VA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Sales Account ManagerHeidelberg
- Branch ManagerMariner Finance
- Sales Representative - UniformCintas
- Sales Representative - Facility ServicesCintas
- Principal or Senior Principal Industrial EngineerNorthrop Grumman
- Test Engineer or Principal Test EngineerNorthrop Grumman
- Senior Principal Antenna Test Electronics EngineerNorthrop Grumman
- Staff CIDO IT Program ManagerNorthrop Grumman
- Senior Principal Test Design Hardware EngineerNorthrop Grumman
- Antenna Test Engineer or Principal Antenna Test EngineerNorthrop Grumman
Employers hiring most in Waynesboro
- Northrop Grumman6 open roles
- Cintas2 open roles
- Heidelberg1 open role
- Mariner Finance1 open role
Waynesboro layoffs
No layoff notices naming Waynesboro 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.
Waynesboro city 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 12.3% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 7.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.2%, up 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (+785 jobs)
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Waynesboro city economy
3.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
2.9% the month before
12,150
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
22,574
people in Waynesboro city
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$56,364
median household income
Source: Census ACS
35%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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