9 Mississippi Employers That Hire Veterans
9 employers in Mississippi cleared the federal veteran-hiring benchmark in filing cycle 2025, between them hiring 1,050 protected veterans out of 3,636 new hires — 28.9% overall, against a national benchmark of 5.1%. The largest by veterans hired are Vertex Aerospace LLC, W. G. Yates and Sons Construction Company and Seemann Composites Inc..
Mississippi employers
9
met or beat the federal benchmark
Veterans hired
1,050
of 3,636 total new hires
Combined share
28.9%
against a 5.1% national benchmark
Veteran hiring in Mississippi concentrates in Transportation & Logistics (888 hires), Construction (95 hires) and Other (29 hires).
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| # | Employer | Veterans hired | Total hires | Share | State | Industry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vertex Aerospace LLC | 888 | 1,591 | 55.8% | Mississippi | Transportation & Logistics |
| 2 | W. G. Yates and Sons Construction Company | 87 | 1,358 | 6.4% | Mississippi | Construction |
| 3 | Seemann Composites Inc. | 29 | 232 | 12.5% | Mississippi | Other |
| 4 | Irby Electrical Distributor a Sonepar op co | 17 | 212 | 8.0% | Mississippi | Wholesale Trade |
| 5 | Cooperative Energy | 12 | 60 | 20.0% | Mississippi | Utilities |
| 6 | Stark Aerospace Inc | 5 | 37 | 13.5% | Mississippi | Manufacturing |
| 7 | United States Marine Inc. | 4 | 74 | 5.4% | Mississippi | Manufacturing |
| 8 | Charles N. White Construction Company | 4 | 41 | 9.8% | Mississippi | Construction |
| 9 | Jesco Inc. | 4 | 31 | 12.9% | Mississippi | Construction |
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What this list is not. It is a track record, not a job board — the data describes a past filing cycle, so an employer here may or may not be hiring today. Check their careers page. It is also not a ranking of who treats veterans best; it counts hires, which is one honest signal among several.
Self-identification is voluntary. Employees choose whether to disclose protected-veteran status, so these figures generally understate how many veterans an employer really has. That cuts one way only: everyone on this list is at least as good as the number shown.
We filtered out obvious filing errors. Some filings report a veteran hire rate wildly out of step with the same employer's overall veteran workforce — a column filled in wrong, not a recruiting record. Those are excluded rather than celebrated.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor VETS-4212 filings, cycle 2025, and the OFCCP national hiring benchmark of 5.1% effective 30 July 2025. LockLeed International is not affiliated with the Department of Labor or OFCCP.
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