If you need US layoff-notice (WARN Act) data, these are your options as of 2026-09-02. Every claim below comes from each provider's public pages; our own numbers are generated live by the pipeline that builds this site, so this comparison updates daily instead of rotting.
| Source | What you get | Freshness | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State labor department portals | The official source: each state publishes its own WARN notice list (HTML tables, PDFs, Excel files — every state a different format) | Varies by state | Free | Authoritative, but ~50 separate sites with no shared schema, no combined download, and patchy history. |
| US Department of Labor | WARN Act guidance and links to state rapid-response contacts | — | Free | The federal DOL does not publish a consolidated national WARN notice database; data lives with the states. |
| WARN Feed — free tier (this site, GitHub) | 8,112 notices · 39 states (2024–present), one normalized CSV/JSON schema, per-state / weekly / monthly / yearly / per-employer pages, RSS | Committed daily, 48h delay | Free — no login, CC BY 4.0 | The delay is the honest catch: rows younger than 48h are held for the paid tier. |
| WARN Feed — paid (real-time · archive) | Real-time feed (no delay, same schema) · full historical archive: 45,755 notices back to 1988 | Refreshed multiple times daily | $49/mo feed · $199 one-time archive | Delivered as private GitHub repo access, automatically. |
| WARNTracker | Commercial WARN dashboard with alerts and historical data | Live subscription | Per its public pricing page (as of 2026-09-02): $250/mo subscription; $2,000 one-time historical CSV | Polished UI and alerting; the incumbent for teams that want a hosted dashboard. |
| Intellizence | Enterprise layoff & downsizing signals API (WARN filings plus news sources), also sold via data marketplaces | Near real-time | Enterprise — pricing on request | Broadest signal coverage (beyond WARN filings); built for enterprise data teams. |
| warn-scraper / layoffdata.com (Big Local News, Stanford) | Open-source Python CLI that scrapes state WARN sites; hosted downloads on layoffdata.com require a free Big Local News account | When you run it | Free (DIY / login for downloads) | Excellent journalism tooling and the inspiration for much of this space; you operate the scraper and normalization yourself. |
| Layoffs.fyi | Curated tracker of tech-industry layoffs compiled from news reports and submissions | As news breaks | Free | Tech sector only, and tracks reported layoffs rather than official WARN filings — a complement, not a WARN database. |
Journalists / researchers: the free tier here covers most needs (2024–present, normalized, citable, CC BY); for deeper custom scraping, Big Local News' warn-scraper is the gold-standard DIY tool. Recruiters and sales-intelligence teams using notices as triggers are the ones the 48h delay actually costs — that's who the $49/mo real-time feed exists for. Analysts who need decades of history: the full 1988–present archive (45,755 notices) is $199 one-time.
Yes. The WARN Feed free tier is a normalized, no-login dataset of 8,112 WARN notices across 39 states (2024–present), published as CSV and JSON on GitHub with daily commits, under CC BY 4.0. It runs 48 hours behind the official state postings.
No. The WARN Act is administered state-by-state: each state labor department publishes its own notice list in its own format, and the US DOL links out to those state pages rather than hosting a consolidated database.
As of 2026-09-02, WARNTracker's public pricing lists a $250/month subscription and a $2,000 one-time historical CSV; Intellizence sells an enterprise layoff-signals API with pricing on request. WARN Feed's real-time tier is $49/month and its full 1988–present archive (45,755 notices) is $199 one-time.
States post notices on their own schedules — some daily, some weekly. This pipeline re-scrapes every state source multiple times a day; the free tier publishes rows once they are 48 hours old, and the paid feed publishes them immediately.