How many US workers have been laid off?
In the last 12 months, 323,941 US workers have received official layoff notices across 3,204 WARN filings in 34 states. And because the WARN Act requires roughly 60 days' notice, we can already see what's coming: 20,219 more jobs are scheduled to end in the next 90 days.
- 323,941 jobs cut in the last 12 months across 3,204 employer filings.
- 20,219 jobs are already scheduled to end in the next 90 days — layoffs the public hasn't heard about yet.
- The biggest employer cutting jobs is Amazon (15,897 jobs across 10 states).
- The most-affected state on record is Illinois (433,388 jobs).
- The hardest-hit sector is Healthcare (151,490 jobs).
Biggest employers cutting jobs
By jobs cut in the last 12 months. We stitch each company's filings across every state into one total, so a national employer shows as one line instead of scattered rows.
Where layoffs are accelerating
Filings in the last 90 days versus the 90 before — the momentum read that holds up as our state coverage grows.
The layoffs nobody has reported yet
Because WARN filings are made about 60 days ahead, these job losses are already on the public record but haven't happened. Soonest first.
How this is compiled
Every figure comes from official Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act filings, the notices US employers must file with state governments before a mass layoff or plant closure. CanaryWhistle aggregates these public records across 34 states, resolves each employer's filings into a single company, and updates continuously. Figures are tracked WARN filings, not every US layoff, and reflect what employers themselves reported. See our sources for every state feed.
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