Nevada Layoffs November 2026: WARN Numbers Explained
Nevada's 2026 layoff picture is small and dominated by a single employer. The state's WARN record lists 12 notices covering 1,896 workers so far this year, down from 30 notices and 5,759 workers in 2025. More than half of this year's reported workers come from one company: Spirit Airlines.
These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses. Figures come from the Layoff Atlas registry, which combines official records with labeled secondary reports; coverage varies by state.
Nevada in 2026: the headline numbers
The full Nevada archive holds 616 non-cancelled imported WARN notices reporting 182,698 workers. Most of it is old: 369 notices and 144,800 workers — about 79% of the archive total — date to 2020, the pandemic year.
- 2026: 12 notices, 1,896 workers
- 2025: 30 notices, 5,759 workers
- 2024: 44 notices, 8,546 workers
- 2023: 52 notices, 7,081 workers
- 2022: 42 notices, 2,124 workers
- 2021: 1 notice, 36 workers
- 2020: 369 notices, 144,800 workers
Filings average about 158 workers in 2026, down from roughly 192 in 2025. What stands out is how few filings there are: 12 notices in ten months, against 30 in all of 2025 and 44 in 2024. Nevada's filing count has fallen every year since 2023.
One airline dominates the year
Spirit Airlines accounts for 1,032 of Nevada's 1,896 reported workers in 2026 — about 54% — across three filings. The largest is a 999-worker closure covering Las Vegas and Reno, effective May 2, 2026, with a notice dated May 4, 2026 — two days after the effective date, the opposite of how the 60-day advance-notice rule is supposed to work. That is what the imported record shows — a reminder to check secondary records against the original filing. Spirit also filed a 32-worker layoff effective January 1, 2026 and a 1-worker layoff effective March 15, 2026.
The other large 2026 filings:
- Primadonna, 344 workers — closure in Primm, effective July 4, 2026, notice dated May 5, 2026.
- SK Food Group, 209 workers — layoff in Reno, effective April 30, 2026, notice dated February 27, 2026.
- iHerb, 113 workers — closure in Las Vegas, effective May 1, 2026, notice dated March 2, 2026.
- Saks, 70 workers — closure in Las Vegas, effective May 31, 2026. Boulder City Hospital, 70 workers — layoff in Boulder City, effective April 30, 2026.
Together, the top three filings — Spirit's 999, Primadonna's 344, and SK Food Group's 209 — account for 1,552 workers, about 82% of Nevada's 2026 total. The other nine notices are small — the largest is 79 workers — and several list a single worker.
The official-filing gap
The most important caveat: in the last 365 days, the imported archive contains zero eligible official filings for Nevada, and the newest official notice date is May 1, 2025. Of the 616 notices in the full archive, only 3 are direct government records; 613 are attributed secondary records.
That means nearly everything Nevada shows in 2026 comes from secondary sources — licensed WARN feeds and attributed reports — rather than from a state-published official feed. The filings may be accurate, but they are harder to verify against a primary source than in states with a live official feed. Six archive notices have unavailable worker counts, so totals exclude them.
One future effective date also deserves a careful read: a 61-worker FTGU filing in Las Vegas carries an effective date of August 25, 2028 — almost two years out — against a notice date of June 26, 2026. Dates that far in the future are unusual for WARN filings and may reflect a data-entry quirk in the source record.
Nevada in the national picture
Nationally, the registry's 90-day window shows 665 notices covering 63,159 workers, with 30 counts unavailable. California leads at 20,982 workers, followed by Washington at 17,411; Illinois (3,432), Maryland (2,475), and Virginia (2,473) round out the top five. Nevada's 2026 total of 1,896 workers is modest next to the big states.
The weeks ahead are heavier nationally — 9,300 workers are scheduled for the week of November 24 — but little of that weight is scheduled in Nevada.
How to read Nevada's numbers
First, small numbers swing easily. With only 12 filings in 2026, one large notice — Spirit's 999-worker closure — moves the year's total by more than half. Nevada's 2026 is a story of one airline, not a broad-based wave.
Second, the trend is down, not up. Notices have fallen from 52 in 2023 to 44 in 2024, 30 in 2025, and 12 so far in 2026. Nothing in the current record points to a pickup.
Third, verify before you rely on it. Because Nevada's recent record is almost entirely secondary-sourced, with no official filings in the last year, anyone making a decision off a specific Nevada notice should check the underlying source document linked from the registry entry — especially where dates look unusual, as with the Spirit notice dated after its effective date.
Nevada follows the federal WARN Act's 60-day advance-notice standard. Workers who receive a notice should check their rights to unemployment benefits, continued health coverage, and any severance on offer — and use the 60-day window to do it.
Data source: Layoff Atlas. State figures from the Nevada page, source check November 9, 2026; national figures from the Layoff Atlas homepage, November 10, 2026.
