Employer · WARN Act history · Retail Trade
Macy's
1,505 workers across 14 WARN notices, primarily in WA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 1,505
- Workers cut
- 14
- WARN notices
- 5
- States
- 108
- Avg / notice
Macy's has 14 recorded WARN filings affecting 1,505 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Macy's has 14 recorded filings covering 1,505 workers across 5 states, primarily WA, the 98th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Macy's accounts for 1.1% of Retail Trade's 135,000 WARN-laid-off workers across 330 tracked employers in the dataset — #15 in Retail Trade by workers affected.
How 1,505 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
Macy's WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Macy's WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 5 states by total workers affected.
| Year | WA | MD | VA | OR | CA | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | – | – | – | – | 77 | 77 |
| 2023 | – | 111 | – | – | – | 111 |
| 2021 | – | 81 | – | – | – | 81 |
| 2020 | 114 | 183 | – | 83 | – | 380 |
| 2019 | 370 | – | 43 | – | – | 413 |
| 2017 | 135 | – | 119 | – | – | 254 |
| 2016 | 94 | – | 95 | – | – | 189 |
Macy's city concentration · dispersed multi-city
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
Macy's's WARN footprint is spread across 13 named cities; Seattle still leads at 24.6% (370 workers).
Lead city Seattle · 24.6% · 13 named cities · top-3 share 41.5%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer MACY-S · Macy's 1,505 workers · 14 filings
NOTC-MID · WORK-HEAVY · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-OVER · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-MID 14 filings
- WORK-HEAVY #98
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-OVER 62d
- STAT-MULTI 5 states
- BOOK-MULTI 5 agencies
- TYPE-MIX 11C/3L
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Macy's WARN filings · notice runway
Top 5 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Seattle, WA · Closure · Retail Trade 236 workers · filed Dec 17, 2019 · 61d runway
- Everett, WA · Closure · Retail Trade 135 workers · filed Jan 5, 2017 · 60d runway
- Seattle, WA · Closure · Retail Trade 134 workers · filed May 28, 2019 · 56d runway
- Alexandria, VA · Closure · Retail Trade 119 workers · filed Mar 6, 2017 · 14d runway
- Burlington, WA · Closure · Retail Trade 114 workers · filed Jan 6, 2020 · 71d runway
Median forward runway across 14 dated filings: 62 days (4 under 60d · 10 at/above 60d · 1 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - Macy's WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2020 → 2021: WARN workers affected for Macy's fell from 380 in 2020 to 81 in 2021; notice count fell from 4 to 1.
- 2017 → 2019: WARN workers affected for Macy's rose from 254 in 2017 to 413 in 2019; notice count rose from 2 to 3.
- 2016 → 2017: WARN workers affected for Macy's rose from 189 in 2016 to 254 in 2017; notice count held from 2 to 2.
- 2019 → 2020: WARN workers affected for Macy's fell from 413 in 2019 to 380 in 2020; notice count rose from 3 to 4.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2026.
Where Macy's Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Macy's is in the 1.5k-5k bucket (#98 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- WA
- Primary Industry
- Retail Trade
- First Notice
- Jan 6, 2016
- Latest Notice
- Jan 9, 2026
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Jan 2026.
WARN Notice History
2026
Grossmont Center Drive La Mesa, CA · Retail Trade
Effective: Jan 9, 2026
77
workers
Filed Jan 9, 2026
2023
Montgomery Co., MD · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 18, 2023
111
workers
Filed Jan 5, 2023
2021
8, MD · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 14, 2021
81
workers
Filed Jan 6, 2021
2020
Portland, OR · Retail Trade
Effective: Jan 18, 2021
83
workers
Filed Nov 16, 2020
1, MD · Retail Trade
Effective: Jun 30, 2020
103
workers
Filed Jun 26, 2020
5, MD · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 30, 2020
80
workers
Filed Jan 10, 2020
Burlington, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 17, 2020
114
workers
Filed Jan 6, 2020
2019
Seattle, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Feb 16, 2020
236
workers
Filed Dec 17, 2019
Seattle, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Jul 23, 2019
134
workers
Filed May 28, 2019
McLean, VA · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 20, 2019
43
workers
Filed Jan 18, 2019
2017
Alexandria, VA · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 20, 2017
119
workers
Filed Mar 6, 2017
Everett, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 6, 2017
135
workers
Filed Jan 5, 2017
2016
Spokane, WA · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 14, 2016
94
workers
Filed Jan 7, 2016
Norfolk, VA · Retail Trade
Effective: Mar 14, 2016
95
workers
Filed Jan 6, 2016
Questions about this Macy's record
What is the largest Macy's WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the facility closure filed for Seattle, WA on Dec 17, 2019, covering 236 workers in Retail Trade.
Where were Macy's's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Grossmont Center Drive La Mesa, Montgomery Co., and 8, among 13 named cities; together they form 11 facility closures and 3 mass-layoff filings sourced from California EDD and Maryland DLLR and Oregon WorkSource and Washington ESD and Virginia Works. States represented in this record: CA, MD, OR, VA, WA.
Where is Macy's's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Macy's's WARN footprint is spread across 13 named cities; Seattle still leads at 24.6% (370 workers).
Does Macy's's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2016 through 2026 across 7 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Macy's's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway clears the federal 60-day baseline; use the dated filing history to see which location and event produced it. Of 14 filings on record, 1 without a published effective date is excluded from that figure.
See also: WA WARN filings · Retail Trade industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Macy's notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.