Powell, WY jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Facilities Director - Northwest CollegeNorthwest College
Employers hiring most in Powell
- Northwest College1 open role
Powell layoffs
No layoff notices naming Powell 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.
Park 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 0.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 5.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.6%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Powell. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
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- Wyoming Workforce Development Council
Serves all of Wyoming
Powell Workforce Center
Powell · Affiliate · 307-754-6436
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Park County economy
2.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
2.8% the month before
14,893
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
30,109
people in Park County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$70,533
median household income
Source: Census ACS
37%
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 Wyoming’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. Wyoming unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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