CrankyBooks — Broken Job Market Toolkit

Layoff Risk Scorecard

Six honest questions, weighted against real 2026 layoff and sector data — not a horoscope, a probability check.

This isn't a prediction. Nobody can tell you whether your specific job survives the next quarter — not Challenger, Gray & Christmas, not the BLS, not a scorecard on a website. What this can do is tell you where you sit relative to the sectors, functions, and company patterns that are actually getting cut right now, using the same data behind the Layoff Tracker and Labor Market Pulse. Answer honestly. Nobody sees this but you — it lives in your browser, not on a server.

Question 1 of 6
What sector are you in?
Question 2 of 6
How much of your day-to-day is work a language model could plausibly approximate?
Question 3 of 6
What does your role fund, versus cost?
Question 4 of 6
How big is your company?
Question 5 of 6
Which of these has actually happened at your company in the last two quarters? Check all that apply.
Question 6 of 6
How long have you been in your current role?

What to do with this

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    What the Score Is Built On

    Methodology

    Sector weighting reflects the actual 2026 Challenger, Gray & Christmas data used in this toolkit's Layoff Tracker: technology carries the highest weight because it accounted for roughly a third of every job cut announced this year, up 83 percent over 2025. Health care and skilled trades carry the lowest weight because current data shows no elevated cut signal in either. The AI-exposure question reflects the fact that artificial intelligence has become the single leading stated reason for layoffs nationally, cited in 23 percent of all 2026 cuts and rising every month since it was first broken out as its own category in 2023. None of these weights are guesses — they're the same figures sitting in the Layoff Tracker and Labor Market Pulse reports elsewhere in this toolkit.

    This scorecard estimates relative exposure, not a probability of being laid off. Treat a high score as a reason to prepare, not a countdown clock.