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WARN Notice & Severance Estimator

See what the WARN Act's 60-day notice period is worth in pay, and a typical severance range for your tenure, so you can sanity-check an offer after a layoff.

The WARN Act guarantees 60 days' notice, not severance, before a qualifying mass layoff

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the WARN Act guarantees 60 days' advance notice, not severance pay, before a qualifying mass layoff. PlainLayoffs has recorded 8,798 WARN notices covering 1,411,142 affected workers; this estimator translates that 60-day window into pay using your own salary and adds a typical severance range for context.

See our methodology for how these WARN Act filings are sourced and processed.

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How these numbers are estimated

The WARN Act doesn’t require severance, it requires 60 calendar days’ advance notice. During that window you either keep working at full pay or, if the employer ends your role sooner without proper notice, you may be owed back pay and benefits for the days of notice you didn’t get (up to 60). This tool values that window as roughly 60 ÷ 365 of your annual salary (about 2 months).

Severance itself is set by company policy or contract, not by the WARN Act. A common market convention is one to two weeks of pay per year of service, often with a floor of a few weeks; this tool shows that range for context only. Your actual entitlement depends on your employer’s policy, any signed agreement, and your state’s law. This is an educational estimate, not legal or financial 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. The WARN notice-value calculation follows the federal 60-day statute; severance ranges are informational market convention, not a WARN Act requirement. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of June 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.