# How much notice did US workers actually get? 15,688 WARN notices under 60 days

*Recomputed on every daily refresh of the 61,330-notice archive (1988 to today). As of 2026-09-17.* Interactive version with charts: [https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/notice-period.html](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/notice-period.html)

The WARN Act is a law about a number of days. Every state publishes the notices; none of them publishes the number. So this dataset computes `notice_days` = layoff (effective) date minus notice date for every notice on file, every day.

| Headline | Value |
|---|---:|
| Notices with both dates on file (measurable) | 33,699 |
| Gave under 60 days | **15,688** (46.55%) |
| Workers in those short-notice filings (where a headcount was published) | 1,550,985 |
| Same-day notices (layoff date = notice date) | 2,017 |
| Under 14 days | 4,551 |
| Median notice period | 60 days |
| Excluded: layoff date precedes notice date | 12,201 |
| Excluded: no layoff date published | 12,170 |
| Excluded: no notice date published | 3,260 |

> **Read this before you quote any number.** This is the calendar-day gap between the two dates *as published by the state*. It is not a finding that any employer broke the law and it is not legal advice. The federal WARN Act applies only to covered employers and covered events and excuses short notice in defined circumstances (faltering company, unforeseeable business circumstances, natural disaster); several states run their own notice laws with different periods; and in several states the published notice date is the day the *state received* the filing, which can trail the day workers were told. A short interval is a question worth asking, not an answer.

## By state

Share of measurable notices filed under 60 days, whole archive. States with too few measurable notices are omitted by the generator upstream.

| State | Measurable | Under 60 | Share |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Texas (TX) | 1,578 | 995 | 63.0% |
| Tennessee (TN) | 651 | 403 | 61.9% |
| California (CA) | 10,289 | 6,253 | 60.8% |
| Connecticut (CT) | 730 | 415 | 56.9% |
| Nevada (NV) | 381 | 197 | 51.7% |
| Alabama (AL) | 981 | 505 | 51.5% |
| Colorado (CO) | 479 | 245 | 51.1% |
| Florida (FL) | 2,094 | 1,044 | 49.9% |
| Washington (WA) | 1,319 | 614 | 46.5% |
| Ohio (OH) | 786 | 363 | 46.2% |
| Kentucky (KY) | 492 | 220 | 44.7% |
| Massachusetts (MA) | 250 | 99 | 39.6% |
| Maryland (MD) | 1,027 | 398 | 38.8% |
| North Carolina (NC) | 980 | 375 | 38.3% |
| Wisconsin (WI) | 463 | 177 | 38.2% |
| Oregon (OR) | 1,173 | 438 | 37.3% |
| Georgia (GA) | 261 | 96 | 36.8% |
| Virginia (VA) | 982 | 337 | 34.3% |
| Iowa (IA) | 407 | 138 | 33.9% |
| Indiana (IN) | 915 | 274 | 29.9% |
| New York (NY) | 4,175 | 1,248 | 29.9% |
| New Jersey (NJ) | 2,250 | 391 | 17.4% |

## By year of notice

Complete years only; the current year is still running and is shown for reference. Early years have very few notices with both dates and should not be read as a trend.

| Year | Measurable | Under 60 | Share |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 1988 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 1990 | 13 | 7 | 53.8% |
| 1991 | 24 | 10 | 41.7% |
| 1992 | 16 | 3 | 18.8% |
| 1993 | 16 | 7 | 43.8% |
| 1994 | 18 | 9 | 50.0% |
| 1995 | 16 | 10 | 62.5% |
| 1996 | 16 | 5 | 31.2% |
| 1997 | 11 | 7 | 63.6% |
| 1998 | 42 | 24 | 57.1% |
| 1999 | 79 | 45 | 57.0% |
| 2000 | 89 | 46 | 51.7% |
| 2001 | 119 | 60 | 50.4% |
| 2002 | 83 | 44 | 53.0% |
| 2003 | 94 | 44 | 46.8% |
| 2004 | 187 | 48 | 25.7% |
| 2005 | 234 | 91 | 38.9% |
| 2006 | 230 | 77 | 33.5% |
| 2007 | 211 | 70 | 33.2% |
| 2008 | 376 | 119 | 31.6% |
| 2009 | 883 | 235 | 26.6% |
| 2010 | 642 | 204 | 31.8% |
| 2011 | 687 | 268 | 39.0% |
| 2012 | 716 | 341 | 47.6% |
| 2013 | 493 | 182 | 36.9% |
| 2014 | 829 | 378 | 45.6% |
| 2015 | 1,403 | 623 | 44.4% |
| 2016 | 1,673 | 615 | 36.8% |
| 2017 | 1,729 | 567 | 32.8% |
| 2018 | 1,837 | 603 | 32.8% |
| 2019 | 2,077 | 820 | 39.5% |
| 2020 | 4,882 | 3,462 | 70.9% |
| 2021 | 1,195 | 612 | 51.2% |
| 2022 | 1,433 | 796 | 55.5% |
| 2023 | 2,673 | 1,573 | 58.8% |
| 2024 | 3,053 | 1,423 | 46.6% |
| 2025 | 3,261 | 1,320 | 40.5% |
| 2026 | 2,354 | 940 | 39.9% |

## State × year, last 6 years

Share under 60 days; a cell is blank when the state has fewer than 30 measurable notices that year (a percentage of a handful of filings is noise).

| State | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| California (CA) | 69% | 68% | 82% | 60% | 45% | 48% |
| Colorado (CO) | 49% |  | 38% | 30% | 38% | 28% |
| Connecticut (CT) |  |  |  | 61% |  |  |
| Florida (FL) | 47% | 65% | 42% | 24% | 45% | 60% |
| Georgia (GA) |  |  | 33% | 42% | 30% | 44% |
| Iowa (IA) |  |  |  |  |  | 31% |
| Indiana (IN) |  | 23% | 29% | 24% | 22% |  |
| Kentucky (KY) |  |  |  |  |  | 27% |
| Massachusetts (MA) |  |  | 45% | 33% | 42% | 37% |
| Maryland (MD) | 43% | 60% | 42% | 36% | 38% | 34% |
| North Carolina (NC) | 26% | 28% | 21% | 17% | 18% | 27% |
| New Jersey (NJ) | 36% | 21% | 17% | 16% | 22% | 20% |
| Nevada (NV) |  | 85% | 41% | 25% |  |  |
| New York (NY) | 12% | 24% | 31% | 24% | 30% | 18% |
| Ohio (OH) |  | 39% | 35% | 42% | 27% | 48% |
| Oregon (OR) |  |  | 28% | 25% | 38% | 6% |
| Tennessee (TN) |  |  | 62% |  | 50% | 67% |
| Texas (TX) | 46% | 51% | 70% | 62% | 53% | 51% |
| Virginia (VA) | 34% |  | 45% | 27% | 32% | 22% |
| Washington (WA) |  | 38% | 30% | 40% | 44% | 28% |
| Wisconsin (WI) |  | 19% | 25% | 35% | 38% | 27% |

## Get the data

- Free per-notice CSV/JSON (1988 → today, 33,699 rows with `notice_days`): [`data/warn_notices.csv`](data/warn_notices.csv) — no login, CC BY 4.0.
- Whole-archive state × year summary: [`notice_period_by_state_year.csv`](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/data/notice_period_by_state_year.csv)
- Every notice back to 1988 with `notice_days` (the 61,330-row archive): free, in [`data/notice_period.csv`](data/notice_period.csv)
- Method, exclusions and per-state caveats: [https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/notice-period.html#method](https://approjects-warn-act-notices.static.hf.space/notice-period.html#method)

Sources: official state labor department WARN listings, normalized by this pipeline. Best-effort public records — verify critical rows against the state source. Not affiliated with any state agency.