$LAYOFFS
US initial jobless claims
Closes00:00 UTC
week to Oct 17
157,824 to beat
Claims in the week to Sep 26.
$LAYOFFS
US initial jobless claims, not seasonally adjusted, week to Sep 26: 157,824
157,824claims3.9% downon the week before
Week to Sep 26Bitcoin timestamp, block 969,734#969,734
Quiet. 157,824 claims in the week to Sep 26, down 3.9% on the week before.
160,000180,000200,000220,000240,000
From Apr 4 to Sep 26.
Call it
All of the ArenaHow it is counted
Normal173,384 to 207,099
Highest245,434Week to Jul 11
Unusual weeks1
- Counts
- People filing a first claim for unemployment insurance in the week, added across the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Not seasonally adjusted. The week ends Saturday.
- Terms
- US government work, public domain.
- Cadence
- Weekly. The states' file lands about ten days after the week ends. Newest complete week to Sep 26. Read Oct 3, 06:40 UTC.
- Baseline
- The prior 26 weeks, 14 needed. Claims rise every January and July; those weeks read against the weeks before them.
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$LAYOFFS (US initial jobless claims, not seasonally adjusted, weekly) prints above {strike} for the week ending Saturday 2026-10-17.
Strikes: 170,000 / 180,000 / 190,000 / 200,000 / 220,000 claims
Settles: on the published number (column settlement_value). Weekly. The states' file lands about ten days after the week ends. A later revision never changes it.
Tie: A print equal to the strike resolves No.
Source: https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/claims.asp
Settlement file: https://tickerz.com/api/indices/layoffs/history.csv
Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04. Grade: reference.
Strikes from the last 30 published numbers.
PeriodWeek to Oct 17Sunday Oct 11 to Saturday Oct 17, the next week to begin.
SettlesNo fixed timeWeekly. The states' file lands about ten days after the week ends. The number is recorded with the next daily proof.
Resolution
- Index
- $LAYOFFS US initial jobless claims. Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04.
- Prints
- Weekly. The states' file lands about ten days after the week ends. The newest complete week is on the record after the daily proof at about 12:00 UTC.
- As first published
157,824 claimsfor the week ending 2026-09-26, recorded 2026-10-03 in digest 2d4f359fc8cf89e2, Bitcoin block 969,734. Proof
The number as first published is final for settlement. A revision by the source is shown beside it and never replaces it.
- Fallback
- The states' file lands about ten days after the week ends. Until all 53 jurisdictions are in it, the week stays open. A week that never lands is void.
- Precision
- Whole claims, not seasonally adjusted, summed across 53 jurisdictions. The week ends Saturday. No rounding.
- Cost to move
- Not practical. Moving a week means filing unemployment claims with state agencies, by the thousand.
- Grade
- reference. A government series. A venue can read the Department of Labor file directly and settle on it. Tickerz adds the score and the record, not the number.
- For a rulebook
- Settle on the number Tickerz first recorded for $LAYOFFS for the week ending the Saturday named in the contract, published at tickerz.com/x/layoffs and in GET /api/indices/layoffs, timestamped daily in Bitcoin with OpenTimestamps.
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- Arena
- $LAYOFFS for the week to Oct 17. Forecast the number. Against the week to Sep 26, the newest on file: 157,824 claims. The question, the rules.
- Proof
- Last proof Oct 6, digest 7f0338a4fc80a5fb, Bitcoin block 970,174. Proof On Solana: the print for 2026-09-26, Solana record. Signed numbers $LAYOFFS feed Methodology