Jefferson, WI jobs, layoffs and employers

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Show me jobs near meJobs in Jefferson
- Packaging & Operations Supervisor – 2nd Shift (GMP / SQF Plant)Food Management Search
- Process Engineer (Production Engineering Specialist)Nestlé
- Packaging & Operations Supervisor – 2nd Shift (GMP / SQF Plant)Human Capital Ventures
- Recruiter - Insight FS - Jefferson, WIGrowmark
- Packaging & Operations Supervisor – 2nd Shift (GMP / SQF Plant)Top Echelon Network (recruiter member boards)
Employers hiring most in Jefferson
- Food Management Search1 open role
- Growmark1 open role
- Human Capital Ventures1 open role
- Nestlé1 open role
- Top Echelon Network (recruiter member boards)1 open role
Jefferson layoffs
No layoff notices naming Jefferson 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.
Vernon 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 1.3% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 2.4% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.5%, unchanged from a year ago
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Jefferson. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
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- Western Wisconsin Workforce Development Board
Buffalo, Crawford, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse, Monroe, Trempealeau, Vernon
Workforce Development Center of Jefferson County
Jefferson · Affiliate · 920-674-7500
Monday - Friday, 7:45am - 4:30pm
Vernon County economy
2.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
2.5% the month before
15,146
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
30,915
people in Vernon County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$69,556
median household income
Source: Census ACS
35%
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 Wisconsin’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. Wisconsin unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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