How many US workers have been laid off?
In the last 12 months, 379,706 US workers have received official layoff notices across 4,004 WARN filings in 48 states. And because the WARN Act requires roughly 60 days' notice, we can already see what's coming: 29,567 more jobs are scheduled to end in the next 90 days.
- 379,706 jobs cut in the last 12 months across 4,004 employer filings.
- 29,567 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 (16,421 jobs across 11 states).
- The most-affected state on record is California (1,443,978 jobs).
- The hardest-hit sector is Hospitality (399,266 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 48 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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