State WARN notices dated in the 12 months to October 20, 2026: 4,100 notices naming 359,227 workers. The 984 employers below filed notices for 100 or more workers, or three or more notices, and each has a page with its notices, the states they were filed in and the date of each. 34 listings in the year repeat an earlier one and are counted once. 28 notices the register labels as amended, rescinded or outside WARN are left out of the totals. What we count.
A notice is placed in a metro area by the city or ZIP code its state lists; 81% of the year's workers are placed this way, and the rest count in their state only.
An employer's industry is the NAICS code on its own H-1B wage filings, so these pages cover the employers that also file them: 26% of the year's workers.
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Source: the open WARN Notice Register, which consolidates the WARN listings that state workforce agencies publish. Our copy is current through October 20, 2026. The register covers 46 states and DC; Arkansas, New Hampshire, West Virginia and Wyoming sit outside it. WARN notices are the advance filings that employers with roughly 100 or more employees send to state agencies before a layoff or closure. Each entry is a filing: headcounts and dates are as the employer or state recorded them, a notice can later be revised, and the planned event can change before it happens. A notice names how many workers the employer expects to lose and says nothing about which workers, or whether they can move to another role. Employers are counted by name, with a company's spellings together, so a notice filed under a name we cannot tie to the employer is counted separately. Bigger employers file more notices, and a larger count tracks company size. How to read layoff notice data sets out what the notices can and cannot say and why some are missing. Informational only; not legal, immigration, or financial advice.
Wage data: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC LCA Disclosure Data and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS. LCA filings reflect sponsored-worker wage offers, which skew toward mid-large employers and specific occupations — treat any estimate built from a small sample cautiously. Informational only; not legal, immigration, or financial advice.