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West Virginia jobs and job market: layoffs, colleges and workforce help

West Virginia’s unemployment rate is 4.0%. 724 open professional jobs are listed here. Employers filed 10 layoff notices in the last 12 months. Choose a county or city for the same picture closer to home.

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West Virginia economy

  • 4.0%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    4.5% the month before

  • 772,078

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 1,784,462

    people in West Virginia

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $57,917

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 36%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

West Virginia 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 5.7% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population down 1.4% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 3.5%, down 0.6 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+10,657 jobs), professional & technical (+3,043 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−875 jobs), management of companies (−537 jobs)

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West Virginia layoffs

  • 10

    Layoff notices, last 12 months

  • 568

    workers named

    A floor: states may leave out counts

  • 9

    employers

Layoff notices filed in West Virginia, newest first
Notice dateEmployerCity or countyWorkersTypeSource
ECM Energy ServicesBridgeport200—State record
Eagle Horizon ResourcesAshford71—State record
Felman ProductionsLetart98—State record
ConduentConduent——State record
JeniusBankJeniusBank——State record
Greenbrier MineralsLorado——State record
MettikiDavis199—State record
Mettiki 04 1 2026———State record
Greenbrier MineralsGreenbrier Minerals——State record
Mettitki CoalMettitki Coal——State record

All layoff notices in the state

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Employers hiring most in West Virginia

Employers with the most open professional roles on our job board right now.

  1. Form Energy73 open roles
  2. Formenergy27 open roles
  3. Veterans Health Administration12 open roles
  4. Constellium11 open roles
  5. Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company10 open roles
  6. Shimmick10 open roles
  7. CVS Health9 open roles
  8. EY8 open roles
  9. Northrop Grumman8 open roles
  10. Parsons8 open roles
  11. WVU Medicine8 open roles
  12. Army National Guard Units6 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in West Virginia

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Higher education in West Virginia

  • 21

    public and private non-profit colleges

    Source: IPEDS, U.S. Department of Education

  • about 137,000

    students enrolled

    Estimated from size bands

Largest colleges in West Virginia

Largest colleges in West Virginia
CollegeCityTypeStudents
West Virginia UniversityMorgantownPublic 4-year20,000+
Marshall UniversityHuntingtonPublic 4-year10,000–19,999
Bluefield State UniversityBluefieldPublic 4-year1,000–4,999
Concord UniversityAthensPublic 4-year1,000–4,999
Fairmont State UniversityFairmontPublic 4-year1,000–4,999
Glenville State UniversityGlenvillePublic 4-year1,000–4,999
Potomac State College of West Virginia UniversityKeyserPublic 4-year1,000–4,999
Shepherd UniversityShepherdstownPublic 4-year1,000–4,999
University of CharlestonCharlestonPrivate non-profit 4-year1,000–4,999
West Liberty UniversityWest LibertyPublic 4-year1,000–4,999
West Virginia State UniversityInstitutePublic 4-year1,000–4,999
West Virginia University at ParkersburgParkersburgPublic 4-year1,000–4,999

All 21 West Virginia colleges

Workforce development and job centers

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

Laid off in West Virginia? How to file for unemployment in West Virginia (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

18 American Job Centers in West Virginia

Job fairs and business events in West Virginia

Hiring events, career workshops, small-business counseling and startup events from chambers, job centers, workforce boards, colleges and economic-development groups in West Virginia.

Conferences in West Virginia

Industry conferences and trade shows held in West Virginia, the ones worth a trip for hiring managers and job seekers. 2 with dates announced.

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West Virginia counties

Each county page has its own unemployment, layoffs, job openings, employers, colleges and job centers.

Show all 55

West Virginia cities

Cities with open jobs, layoff notices, a job center or a college.

Show all 44

Laid off or looking for work in West Virginia?

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See your options after a layoff

Sources: Census Bureau and BLS for population, income and unemployment; layoff notices from West 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. West Virginia unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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