Interactive tool
WARN Notice & Severance Estimator
Estimate the potential value of a 60-day WARN notice period for a qualifying covered event, plus a typical severance range for your tenure.
A qualifying WARN-covered event can require 60 days' notice; it does not guarantee severance
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, federal WARN generally requires 60 days' advance written notice for covered employers and covered events, subject to threshold rules and exceptions; it does not require severance pay. PlainLayoffs has recorded 9,006 WARN notices covering 1,433,550 affected workers; this estimator translates a 60-day notice 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.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, WARN Act Federal WARN Act thresholds and state workforce agency filings compiled by PlainLayoffs · September 2026 Educational tool only, not legal or financial advice. State mini-WARN laws can be stricter than the federal floor.
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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 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.