Employer · WARN Act history · Other Services
Nordstrom
1,999 workers across 11 WARN notices, primarily in WA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 1,999
- Workers cut
- 11
- WARN notices
- 7
- States
- 182
- Avg / notice
Nordstrom has 11 recorded WARN filings affecting 1,999 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Nordstrom has 11 recorded filings covering 1,999 workers across 7 states, primarily WA, the 66th-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.
Nordstrom is a minor share of Other Services WARN activity — 0.4% of the sector's 460,348 workers across 3,497 employers, ranking #15 in Other Services.
How 1,999 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.
Nordstrom 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.
Nordstrom WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 6 states by total workers affected.
| Year | WA | VA | MD | WI | IN | CO | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| 2020 | 521 | 189 | 237 | 218 | – | 167 | 1,332 |
| 2019 | 167 | – | – | – | – | – | 167 |
| 2017 | – | 153 | – | – | – | – | 153 |
| 2014 | 142 | – | – | – | – | – | 142 |
| 2011 | – | – | – | – | 203 | – | 203 |
Nordstrom city concentration · lead-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.
Seattle leads at 37.6% of named-city WARN workers across 9 cities (1,832 workers with a city on the filing).
Lead city Seattle · 37.6% · 9 named cities · top-3 share 62.4%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer NORDSTROM · Nordstrom 1,999 workers · 11 filings
NOTC-MID · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-OVER · STAT-NATIONAL · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-MID 11 filings
- WORK-TOP #66
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-OVER 60d
- STAT-NATIONAL 7 states
- BOOK-MULTI 7 agencies
- TYPE-MIX 6C/5L
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 Nordstrom 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 · Layoff · Other Services 521 workers · filed Jul 17, 2020 · retroactive dates
- 1, MD · Layoff · Retail Trade 237 workers · filed May 12, 2020 · 20d runway
- Madison, Wauwatosa, WI · Layoff · Retail Trade 218 workers · filed Apr 14, 2020 · retroactive dates
- Indianapolis, IN · Closure · Retail Trade 203 workers · filed May 27, 2011 · 65d runway
- Richmond, VA · Closure · Other Services 189 workers · filed May 12, 2020 · 2d runway
Median forward runway across 11 dated filings: 60 days (5 under 60d · 6 at/above 60d · 3 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - Nordstrom WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2020 → 2025: WARN workers affected for Nordstrom fell from 1,332 in 2020 to 2 in 2025; notice count fell from 5 to 2.
- 2019 → 2020: WARN workers affected for Nordstrom rose from 167 in 2019 to 1,332 in 2020; notice count rose from 1 to 5.
- 2011 → 2014: WARN workers affected for Nordstrom fell from 203 in 2011 to 142 in 2014; notice count held from 1 to 1.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2025.
Where Nordstrom 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. Nordstrom is in the 1.5k-5k bucket (#66 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- WA
- Primary Industry
- Other Services
- First Notice
- May 27, 2011
- Latest Notice
- Nov 19, 2025
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Nov 2025.
WARN Notice History
2025
N/A, WI · Finance & Insurance
Effective: Mar 1, 2026
1
workers
Filed Nov 19, 2025
Clearwater, FL · Finance & Insurance
Effective: Mar 1, 2026
1
workers
Filed Nov 19, 2025
2020
Seattle, WA · Other Services
Effective: May 8, 2020
521
workers
Filed Jul 17, 2020
Richmond, VA · Other Services
Effective: May 14, 2020
189
workers
Filed May 12, 2020
1, MD · Retail Trade
Effective: Jun 1, 2020
237
workers
Filed May 12, 2020
CO · Retail Trade
Effective: May 11, 2020
167
workers
Filed May 11, 2020
Madison, Wauwatosa, WI · Retail Trade
Effective: Apr 5, 2020
218
workers
Filed Apr 14, 2020
2019
Seattle, WA · Other Services
Effective: Aug 9, 2019
167
workers
Filed Jun 10, 2019
2017
Dulles, VA · Other Services
Effective: Sep 8, 2017
153
workers
Filed Jun 30, 2017
2014
Vancouver, WA · Other Services
Effective: Jan 10, 2015
142
workers
Filed Oct 31, 2014
2011
Indianapolis, IN · Retail Trade
Effective: Jul 31, 2011
203
workers
Filed May 27, 2011
Questions about this Nordstrom record
What is the largest Nordstrom WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Seattle, WA on Jul 17, 2020, covering 521 workers in Other Services.
Where were Nordstrom's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name N/A, Clearwater, and Seattle, among 9 named cities; together they form 6 facility closures and 5 mass-layoff filings sourced from Wisconsin DWD and Florida Commerce and Washington ESD and Virginia Works and Maryland DLLR and Colorado CDLE and Indiana DWD. States represented in this record: CO, FL, IN, MD, VA, WA, WI.
Where is Nordstrom's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Seattle leads at 37.6% of named-city WARN workers across 9 cities (1,832 workers with a city on the filing).
Does Nordstrom's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2011 through 2025 across 6 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Nordstrom'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 11 filings on record, 2 dated effective before the notice itself and 1 without a published effective date are excluded from that figure.
See also: WA WARN filings · Other Services industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Nordstrom 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.