South Carolina Layoffs 2026: WARN Numbers Explained

South Carolina's 2026 WARN record is a steady year with one enormous outlier: 43 filings covering 5,233 reported workers, with nearly a quarter of that total coming from a single employer. Layoff Atlas holds 604 non-cancelled imported WARN notices for the state, reporting 81,650 workers affected across the archive, and five notices still carry future effective dates.

The file carries an asterisk worth understanding up front: South Carolina has zero official notices in this archive. All 604 records are attributed secondary reports — no direct government filings — and every 2026 row lists its notice date as unavailable. Eight of the archived notices carry no worker count. That makes South Carolina a study in what WARN data looks like when the state's own listing isn't in the record: a useful floor, not a complete count. These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses — a filed notice can be amended or withdrawn.

The headline numbers

The 2026 file — 43 notices, 5,233 workers — is essentially flat against 2025 (40 notices, 5,175 workers). For context, the national 90-day window currently holds 711 notices covering 65,795 reported workers, led by Washington (16,722) and California (15,138). South Carolina doesn't rank among the top states nationally, but its archive runs deep, back to 2013: 2020 is the standout year (145 notices, 21,517 workers), followed by 2017 (26 notices, 8,005 workers).

The biggest filings of 2026

The year's largest filing belongs to Electrolux Consumer Products in Anderson — 1,245 workers, effective July 18, 2026 — roughly 24 percent of South Carolina's entire 2026 worker total. The second-largest, Republic National Distributing in Lexington (451 workers, effective June 7), is about a third of that size.

The next tier is a logistics-and-manufacturing mix: Healthcare SC in Fairfield (254 workers, effective August 28), DP World in Spartanburg (205, effective October 31), Smith Drug in Spartanburg (195, effective September 30), and a matched pair in Charleston — DLH Solutions and WeDriveU, 194 workers each, both effective February 28.

Geography clusters tightly. Spartanburg shows up repeatedly (DP World, Smith Drug, Saddle Creek Logistics, Univar Solutions, thyssenkrupp), as does Charleston (DLH, WeDriveU, eREV Supply Chain, ABM, Parsec). Electrolux also filed a second, much smaller Anderson notice — 10 workers, effective December 22, 2026.

What's coming: five dates on the calendar

Five filings carry future effective dates, totaling 480 workers:

• PepsiCo Beverages Sales, Richland — 105 workers, effective October 18, 2026
• DP World, Spartanburg — 205 workers, effective October 31, 2026
• KPR US, Kershaw — 3 workers, effective November 1, 2026
• The Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa, Beaufort — 157 workers, effective November 3, 2026
• Electrolux Consumer Products, Anderson — 10 workers, effective December 22, 2026

The DP World and Westin filings are the two meaningful upcoming events, and both land in the nationally heavy late-October window — the week of October 29 carries 8,646 scheduled workers nationwide, the heaviest upcoming week in the country.

2025 vs 2026: flat on paper, concentrated in practice

The two years look nearly identical in the aggregate — 43 notices and 5,233 workers against 40 and 5,175 — but both are shaped by single large filings. Strip out the Electrolux notice and 2026's remaining 3,988 workers would sit much closer to the archive's quieter years (2022: 3,667; 2014: 2,227). That's the hazard of reading a mid-size state's WARN data: one employer's decision moves the whole year's total.

Reading South Carolina's numbers honestly

The honest way to read this file is as a partial floor. With no official state listing feeding it and no notice dates on the 2026 rows, every number arrived through secondary channels, and filings that never reach an aggregator may never enter the record. These figures describe notices, not unique people or completed layoffs. These are reported plans, not confirmed job losses: treat the 5,233 figure as the number of workers employers said were affected in the filings that surfaced, not a census of South Carolina layoffs.

Data source: Layoff Atlas