Sussex, WI jobs, layoffs and employers

43 open professional jobs in Sussex. Sussex is in Waukesha County.

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Jobs in Sussex

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Employers hiring most in Sussex

  1. Generac34 open roles
  2. Manpower2 open roles
  3. Manpower Engineering2 open roles
  4. Generac Holdings1 open role
  5. Gilbane Building Company1 open role
  6. Nature's Path1 open role
  7. Pregis1 open role
  8. Sister Bay Furniture a Prestwick Company1 open role

Sussex layoffs

No layoff notices naming Sussex 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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Waukesha 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 2.3% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 2.4% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 2.7%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,972 jobs), construction (+2,335 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: information (−1,156 jobs), management of companies (−997 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

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

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Waukesha County economy

  • 2.7%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    2.5% the month before

  • 224,760

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 409,040

    people in Waukesha County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $104,100

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 50%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: 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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