Gig Harbor, WA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Gig Harbor

• Hospital PresidentMemorial Hospital Logansport
• Inside Sales RepresentativeTruckee Tahoe Lumber
• Hospital President & Regional Health Operations LeaderCommonSpirit Health
• Director, Transportation Alternative DeliveryHDR
• Manager Clinical Services PerioperativeMemorial Hospital Logansport
• Assistant General Manager - Lumber YardBuilders FirstSource
• Inside Sales RepresentativeBuilders FirstSource
• Senior Preconstruction Manager | Estimating & StrategyThe Weitz Company
• Senior Construction Project ManagerThe Weitz Company
• Preschool DirectorCadence Education

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Employers hiring most in Gig Harbor

1. Builders FirstSource2 open roles
2. Memorial Hospital Logansport2 open roles
3. The Weitz Company2 open roles
4. Cadence Education1 open role
5. CommonSpirit Health1 open role
6. HDR1 open role
7. Peak Credit Union1 open role
8. Truckee Tahoe Lumber1 open role

Gig Harbor layoffs

No layoff notices naming Gig Harbor 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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Pierce 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 3.3% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 2.5% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 5.1%, unchanged from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+5,878 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+2,531 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: construction (−1,395 jobs), retail (−1,155 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

• Tacoma Youth Psychiatric Unit Closing Nov. 21, Cutting Quarter of State's BedsHoodline · Oct 27, 2026
• Starbucks Layoffs: WARN Notice Reveals 135 Job Cuts Across Seattle and SEA AirportLatestLY · Oct 26, 2026
• Starbucks in SEA Airport’s Terminal A to close, affecting 13 employeesKIRO 7 News Seattle on MSN · Oct 24, 2026
• Heading to Gig Harbor westbound on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge? Pack a snackGig Harbor Now · Oct 22, 2026
• In an age of news deserts and ghost papers, what’s next for McClatchy?KUOW · Oct 15, 2026

Learn and get funded in Gig Harbor

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• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
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• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

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

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• Pierce County Workforce Development Area

  Pierce

Pierce County economy

• 5.1%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  5.1% the month before

• 499,802

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 924,106

  people in Pierce County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $96,632

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 38%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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