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Groundwork research · Published October 15, 2026 · Data as of June 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Job cuts at Netflix, Inc. are in the news this week. State records for the year to October 12, 2026 hold 1 layoff notice from the company, dated August 13, 2026 and naming 59 workers. Its certified H-1B wage filings rose 18% between Jul–Sep 2024 and Jul–Sep 2025.
This article reports two public records for Netflix, Inc.: the layoff notices the company has filed with states, and the H-1B wage filings it has made with the Department of Labor. Cuts in the news appear in the notices once the company files them, so the notice record trails the news.
A layoff notice is a filing an employer makes ahead of a plant closing or a mass layoff, under the federal WARN Act and the state laws that mirror it. An H-1B wage filing, the Labor Condition Application, is the step an employer takes before it can sponsor a worker on an H-1B visa, and DOL certifies each one.
From October 13, 2025 to October 12, 2026 the WARN Notice Register lists 1 notice from Netflix, Inc.. It is dated August 13, 2026 and names 59 workers at a site in California.
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Workers named in Netflix layoff notices, by year
A notice covers the layoffs at one site that cross the WARN thresholds. Cuts spread across many offices, or below those thresholds, leave a smaller trail in the notices than the full count of jobs affected, and the worker total is a floor.
Across the months of DOL decisions we hold, Netflix, Inc. has 518 certified H-1B wage filings on record, and DOL certified 99.2% of the filings the company made.
Comparing the same months a year apart keeps the seasons even. In Jul–Sep 2024 DOL certified 79 filings for Netflix, Inc.. In Jul–Sep 2025 it certified 93, so the count rose by 18%, and the like-for-like trend in the records is growing. Those months come before the cuts in this week's news, so the filings describe the company's hiring of visa workers going into them.
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Certified H-1B wage filings, same months a year apart
Each filing names an occupation and the wage the company offers. Software Developers lead, with 320 filings and a median offered wage of $264,514 a year. Next come Data Scientists, with 62 filings at a median of $275,850, and Computer and Information Research Scientists, with 28 filings at a median of $237,786.
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An offered wage is the pay the company states on the filing for the role. The pay a worker receives can be higher.
The layoff records come from the WARN Notice Register, which gathers the notices states publish, in a snapshot through October 12, 2026. A notice records a plan an employer filed in advance, and the final number of jobs cut can differ. The H-1B figures cover certified Labor Condition Applications in the months of DOL decisions listed in the sources. A certified filing is a step toward sponsorship, and the company may fill a role it filed for in another way.
Layoff figures come from state WARN notices in the WARN Notice Register, current through October 12, 2026. A notice is the advance filing an employer with roughly 100 or more employees sends to a state agency before a layoff or closure. A notice that lists no headcount adds no workers to a total, so a worker total is a floor.
Hiring figures count certified H-1B wage filings (labor condition applications) in DOL's disclosure data, covering 15 months of DOL decisions (Jul–Sep 2024, Jul–Sep 2025, Oct 2025–Jun 2026). A filing is an employer's certified wage offer for a job, and a bigger employer files more.
The records cover cases DOL concluded and notices employers filed, and each figure describes what was recorded in them.
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Sources: WARN Notice Register; DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, LCA disclosure data.
Informational only; not legal, immigration, or financial advice.
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