Sauk County, WI jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Sauk County economy

• 2.5%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  2.3% the month before

• 36,554

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 65,759

  people in Sauk County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $77,648

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 35%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Sauk 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 5.0% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 1.3% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 2.5%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: hotels & food (+962 jobs), retail (+361 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−423 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Sauk County. 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

Learn and get funded in Sauk County

• Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
• 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.

Sauk County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Sauk County 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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Employers hiring most in Sauk County

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

1. Coating Place3 open roles
2. Foremost Farms USA2 open roles
3. MBE CPAs2 open roles
4. Sysco2 open roles
5. CliftonLarsonAllen1 open role
6. Creative Financial Staffing1 open role
7. DW Simpson1 open role
8. GPAC1 open role
9. RD Worldwide1 open role
10. Sauk Prairie Area Chamber of Commerce1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

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

• Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin, Inc.

  Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Marquette, Sauk

• Sauk County Job Center

  Baraboo · Affiliate · 608-355-4810

  Monday-Friday 8am-4pm by appointment Resource Room Monday 9:00 am-2:30 pm & Tuesdays 12:30 pm-2:30pm

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