Cottage Grove, WI jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Cottage Grove

• Accounts Receivable Specialist - Growth & BenefitsJohnson Health Tech North America
• General ManagerGecko Hospitality
• Senior AccountantCreative Financial Staffing
• AccountantCreative Financial Staffing
• Sr. Operations ManagerAmazon
• IT Manager , Ops Tech Solutions (OTS)Amazon
• Operations ManagerAmazon
• Area Manager IIAmazon
• Site EHS Manager IIIAmazon
• Transportation Operations ManagerAmazon

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Employers hiring most in Cottage Grove

1. Amazon8 open roles
2. Creative Financial Staffing2 open roles
3. Gecko Hospitality1 open role
4. Johnson Health Tech North America1 open role

Cottage Grove layoffs

No layoff notices naming Cottage Grove 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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Dane 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 3.6% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 4.9% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 2.5%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+4,588 jobs), hotels & food (+2,417 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−1,315 jobs), finance & insurance (−1,212 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

• More Madison area businesses are adopting AI, survey findsThe Capital Times · Oct 27, 2026
• More Madison area businesses adopt AI amid concern over value, effectsThe Capital Times · Oct 27, 2026
• Cardinal Call: UW–Madison merges botany and integrative biology departmentsThe Daily Cardinal · Oct 21, 2026
• UW-Madison biology merger raises staff concerns over layoffs, botany’s futureThe Daily Cardinal · Oct 15, 2026
• Gov. Evers, DWD Announce $6.6 Million in New Grants to Train Over 3,800 Wisconsin Workers in Advanced Manufacturing and AIWHBL · Oct 14, 2026
• Fearing AI, young workers retrain for hands-on jobsThe Hechinger Report on MSN · Sep 29, 2026

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• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
• Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

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

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Dane County economy

• 2.5%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  2.3% the month before

• 347,110

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 564,777

  people in Dane County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $88,108

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 55%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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