Waupaca, WI jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Quality Assurance ManagerBernatello's Foods
- Process EngineerWaupaca Foundry
- Senior Lead Electrical EngineerFaith Technologies
- Business Data AnalystWaupaca Foundry
- Production Supervisor - Night shift weldingSteelesolutions
- Manufacturing EngineerSteelesolutions
- Safety SpecialistSteelesolutions
- Laser ProgrammerSteelesolutions
Employers hiring most in Waupaca
- Steelesolutions4 open roles
- Waupaca Foundry2 open roles
- Bernatello's Foods1 open role
- Faith Technologies1 open role
Waupaca layoffs
No layoff notices naming Waupaca 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.
Waupaca 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 down 0.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 0.7% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.6%, up 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−512 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Waupaca. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Neenah schools close $1.7M budget gap without mass layoffsNBC26 · Oct 30, 2026
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Waupaca County economy
2.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
2.5% the month before
26,740
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
51,714
people in Waupaca County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$71,189
median household income
Source: Census ACS
29%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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