AI's impact on US labor — state by state

AI-attributed layoffs and AI hiring activity for every US state, over the trailing 90 days. Click a state to drill into its recent events, national rank, and methodology footnotes.

3 of 50 states have recorded AI-attributed layoff events in the current window. The remainder reflects either zero AI-attributed events on file or, for states without a public WARN portal (Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Dakota, New Mexico, West Virginia, Wyoming), no WARN-derived data at all.

All 50 US states ranked by AI layoff volume

AI-attributed layoff and hiring stats for every US state, ranked by 90-day AI-attributed workers affected (then by event count as a tiebreaker). Column headers are sortable -- press Enter or Space on any header to sort ascending; press again to sort descending. 3 states have recorded events in the current window.
#1 Washington (WA) 605 1 2,346 2026-07-06
#2 California (CA) 391 6 11,791 2026-07-28
#3 Delaware (DE) 0 1 0 2026-05-26
Arizona (AZ) 0 0 89
Colorado (CO) 0 0 431
Connecticut (CT) 0 0 1
Florida (FL) 0 0 19
Georgia (GA) 0 0 210
Hawaii (HI) 0 0 8
Illinois (IL) 0 0 169
Indiana (IN) 0 0 3
Kentucky (KY) 0 0 1
Louisiana (LA) 0 0 69
Massachusetts (MA) 0 0 640
Maryland (MD) 0 0 35
Michigan (MI) 0 0 8
Minnesota (MN) 0 0 10
Missouri (MO) 0 0 28
North Carolina (NC) 0 0 63
Nebraska (NE) 0 0 2
New Hampshire (NH) 0 0 39
New Jersey (NJ) 0 0 32
Nevada (NV) 0 0 8
New York (NY) 0 0 1,670
Ohio (OH) 0 0 205
Oklahoma (OK) 0 0 3
Oregon (OR) 0 0 56
Pennsylvania (PA) 0 0 32
Rhode Island (RI) 0 0 57
South Carolina (SC) 0 0 3
Tennessee (TN) 0 0 124
Texas (TX) 0 0 1,274
Utah (UT) 0 0 42
Virginia (VA) 0 0 306
Wisconsin (WI) 0 0 8

These states either have no WARN portal we can scrape, or had zero AI-attributed events and zero open AI roles in the visible 90-day window.

AI Layoffs and Events columns reflect AI-attributed events in the trailing 90 days. AI Roles Open is the current count of AI-tagged open roles in the state. See methodology →

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