Salesforce Layoffs by State: 2,180 Workers in Two States, While Headcount Hit 83,334

Salesforce layoffs by state, as of November 5, 2026: 2,180 workers appear in WARN notices, 2,028 in California and 152 in Washington, with the latest 133 filed Aug 5, 2026 and effective Oct 5, 2026. That is a floor: 28 states could not be read. Filings show $3.04 billion in restructuring charges since fiscal 2023.

Every Salesforce WARN notice we found, by state and site

California holds 93% of the total and 17 of 19 rows. Washington’s only two rows, 152 workers listed as Seattle and Bellevue, landed on the same days as California notices: September 2, 2025 and August 5, 2026. The largest single date is still January 4, 2023, at 752 workers across four San Francisco addresses. Click a column to sort, or filter by state.

Filed is the employer’s notice date in California and the date received in Washington, which publishes no notice date. Lead days run from that date to the effective date. An effective date is the scheduled date in the filing, not proof of a completed separation. Grey italic rows are outside the total.

Lead time has shortened. Notices filed in January and February of 2023, 2024 and 2025 gave 79 to 82 days. All four Salesforce notice dates from September 2025 on gave 60 to 62 days, the minimum California asks for plus at most two days. The Informatica notice gave 47, and the state list alone does not show whether an exception applied.

Why the map looks empty, and what that does not mean

We read 22 states and DC. Outside California and Washington, the other 20 states and DC show no match. Texas (open data to June 23, 2026), Indiana, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Colorado all list no Salesforce, Tableau, Slack, MuleSoft or Informatica filer in the windows below. Georgia, Oregon, Florida and Ohio are among the 28 we could not open, so a blank there says nothing.

Two checks show how far the state files fall short. GeekWire reported that Salesforce cut about 10% of its Seattle-area staff in January 2023, and Washington’s database, which runs back to January 2004 in our copy, has no Salesforce or Tableau row before September 2025. Quartz, citing Business Insider, reported Washington workers among the June 2026 cuts, and Washington shows no June 2026 row. Federal rules generally count at least 50 workers and 33 percent of a single site, so spread-out and remote cuts can stay off the list, and cuts outside the U.S. never appear. We cannot tell from the files which explanation fits any one case.

Scale makes the same point. About 10 percent of the 79,390 staff counted in January 2023 is roughly 7,900 people (our arithmetic), and all 2023 notices cover 1,151, or 15%.

Tableau, Slack, MuleSoft and Informatica: the matching rule

Restructuring charges by fiscal year

Salesforce’s fiscal year ends January 31, so fiscal 2027 began February 1, 2026. The January 2023 8-K forecast $1.4 billion to $2.1 billion for the plan. Fiscal 2023 and 2024 charges came to $1,816 million, inside that range, though the fiscal 2024 figure also holds a later cut. From January 2023 through July 2026, total charges reached $3,037 million. The 10-Ks give $1,610 million of workforce charges for fiscal 2023 to 2025, and the fiscal 2026 10-K dropped that split table.

Fourth-quarter charges have come before February and March notices

We split the charges by quarter, taking fourth quarters as the annual figure minus the three 10-Qs. Fourth quarters have run high: $173 million, $298 million and $286 million, against a median of about $56 million for the ten other quarters from Q2 of fiscal 2024 on. In each case a California notice followed in the next first quarter: February 1, 2024 (51), February 4, 2025 (153) and March 2, 2026 (51). That is three for three, which fits Salesforce’s accounting note that severance is recognized when payment is probable and estimable, or at notification. Three cases do not prove a rule. Q3 of fiscal 2026 broke the pattern, with $260 million and 355 workers in the same quarter.

The filings keep saying the charges are nearly over. “We do not expect to incur significant additional charges” appears in 7 filings from March 2024 to August 2026. It appeared in March 2025, and $586 million followed in fiscal 2026. Expected future cash payments, mostly severance, stood at $170 million to $190 million on July 31, 2026, against $30 million to $50 million a year earlier.

Are the AI claims in the press in the filings?

The filed reasons are elsewhere. Benioff’s January 2023 letter says “we hired too many people” and cites customers buying more cautiously. Later 10-Ks cite operating margins and management structure. The 9,000 and 4,000 figures are not in any filing we read. The site files add nothing here either: the Post reported the 74 August 2026 California jobs as 37 technology and product, 34 administrative and 3 sales and distribution, which does not point to customer support, though we did not read the letter ourselves. For the wider pattern, our ledger of AI-attributed job cuts tracks what employers say across filings.

Headcount: the notices sit inside a bigger company

Function columns are headcount changes stated in each 10-K. n/d: the 10-K gives no percentage for that function that year. Fiscal 2023’s 79,390 includes people affected by the January 2023 plan, per that 10-K.

Employees fell 6,708 in fiscal 2024, then rose 10,652 in two years to 83,334. The fiscal 2026 jump of 6,881 includes Informatica, which last reported “over 5,200” staff at December 31, 2024, so roughly 1,681 may be other growth (our estimate; that count predates the close by 11 months). The fiscal 2025 10-K says growth in cost of revenues, R&D and sales headcount was “primarily in lower cost regions.” The U.S. share slid from 58% in fiscal 2021 to 51% in fiscal 2024, and the last two 10-Ks stop giving it. The fiscal 2026 10-K also drops the function-level headcount lines. U.S. WARN notices measure only one side of that shift.

The same state files give far larger counts for other vendors. Since August 2025, Salesforce and Informatica notices total 660 workers, against 3,392 on our Oracle state page, and 18,584 since October 2025 on our Amazon state page. Our tech layoffs tracker shows the sector count from California, Washington and New York.

Severance and press numbers: what is confirmed

What this means for MSPs

If you resell or administer Salesforce, Tableau, Slack or MuleSoft, a California notice will not tell you whether your product team was hit, because 2,145 of 2,180 workers sit under the parent name. Ask your account team in writing who owns your escalations, and recheck after each February and March, when four of the last four years brought notices. Support is the function to test: if the 9,000 to 5,000 remark holds, measure your own ticket response times against your contract’s terms rather than relying on the headline.

For hiring, the dates are usable. The two most recent notices took effect on October 5, 2026, and they cover San Francisco, Seattle and Bellevue, so recruiting aimed at former Salesforce administrators and engineers can start with those three cities. Check California‘s sheet, which is updated often, and search Washington‘s list for the parent name, not the product. The next data point is the third-quarter 10-Q, expected around early December.

Frequently asked questions

How many Salesforce layoffs are there by state?

As of November 5, 2026, we found 2,180 workers in WARN notices: 2,028 in California and 152 in Washington. 21 other jurisdictions we read show none, and 28 states could not be read, so this total is a floor.

Why is Salesforce laying off so many people?

The only reasons in SEC text are operating costs, margins and, in Marc Benioff’s January 2023 letter, having hired too many people. None of the 15 10-K and 10-Q filings since March 2023 ties a restructuring charge to AI. Benioff’s AI remark about 9,000 to 5,000 support staff came in a podcast interview, not a filing.

What is the severance package for Salesforce in 2026?

Salesforce’s only filed statement is from January 2023: a minimum of nearly five months of pay for affected U.S. employees. A 2026 formula of 9 or 13 weeks plus 3 weeks per year of service, capped at 26 or 30 weeks, comes from Business Insider via Quartz and is unconfirmed.

How many layoffs has Salesforce had?

Filings name one plan, about 10 percent of staff in January 2023, plus a cut of less than 1 percent in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024 and later targeted reductions with no stated size. State files show 12 separate notice dates since 2020. Restructuring charges total $3.04 billion from fiscal 2023 to July 2026.

Is Salesforce struggling right now?

Not on revenue or headcount. Revenue was $41.5 billion in fiscal 2026, up 9.6%, and $11.3 billion in the quarter ended July 31, 2026, with fiscal 2026 operating income of $8.3 billion. Employees reached 83,334 on January 31, 2026, the highest in the 10-Ks we read, helped by the Informatica deal.

Does Salesforce have to file a WARN notice for every layoff?

No. Federal rules count employment loss at a single site, generally at least 50 workers and 33 percent of the site, or 500 workers. California’s trigger is 50 or more in 30 days at employers with 75 or more staff. Dispersed and remote cuts can fall outside those tests, and cuts outside the U.S. never appear.

Methodology

References

1. California EDD, WARN reports and live spreadsheet. Accessed November 2026.
2. Washington ESD, WARN database (copy dated November 2). Accessed November 2026.
3. Salesforce 8-K, Item 2.05, January 4, 2023. Accessed November 2026.
4. Salesforce 8-K Exhibit 99.1, Benioff letter to employees. Accessed November 2026.
5. Salesforce 10-K, fiscal 2023. Accessed November 2026.
6. Salesforce 10-K, fiscal 2024. Accessed November 2026.
7. Salesforce 10-K, fiscal 2025. Accessed November 2026.
8. Salesforce 10-K, fiscal 2026. Accessed November 2026.
9. Salesforce 10-Q, quarter ended July 31, 2026. Accessed November 2026.
10. Informatica Inc. 10-K, fiscal 2024. Accessed November 2026.
11. 20 CFR 639.3, WARN definitions. Accessed November 2026.
12. CNBC, Benioff interview report, September 2, 2025 (press). Accessed November 2026.
13. GeekWire, September 3, 2025 (press). Accessed November 2026.
14. Quartz, June 2026 (press). Accessed November 2026.
15. New York Post, August 7, 2026 (press). Accessed November 2026.
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18. Reuters via Yahoo Finance, February 4, 2025 (press). Accessed November 2026.
19. Careery, Salesforce layoffs (secondary summary). Accessed November 2026.