--- description: Last month saw a surge in layoffs, primarily due to large-scale employee cuts at companies like Hewlett-Packard. title: Here’s How Many Jobs U.S. Companies Cut In September image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5754f9abe4a19dbe/69886666ab6d77706b6a6776/gettyimages-475647726.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Jobs](/tag/jobs/) ## Jobs Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here’s How Many Jobs U.S. Companies Cut In September by [Laura Lorenzetti / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Laura Lorenzetti / Fortune Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 1, 2015 2:29 PM CUT  Meg Whitman, chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard. Meg Whitman, chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard.David Paul Morris—© 2015 Bloomberg Finance LP by [Laura Lorenzetti / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Laura Lorenzetti / Fortune Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 1, 2015 2:29 PM CUT Last month saw a surge in layoffs, primarily due to large-scale employee cuts at companies like Hewlett-Packard. U.S. companies laid off [58,877 workers in September](https://www.challengergray.com/press/press-releases "undefined"), according to data released Thursday by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. September layoffs are up 43% from August when about 41,000 workers were let go. In total, employers have announced 493,431 planned layoffs so far this year, a 36% jump over the same period last year and 2% more than the 2014 total. “Job cuts have already surpassed last year’s total and are on track to end the year as the highest annual total since 2009, when nearly 1.3 million layoffs were announced at the tail-end of the recession,” said John A. Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The computer industry accounted for the heaviest job cuts in September primarily driven by Hewlett-Packard, which said it would [cut 30,000 jobs](http://fortune.com/2015/09/15/hewlett-packard-job-cuts/ "undefined"). The job losses, which were announced in mid-September by CEO Meg Whitman, should save the company $2.7 billion annually and represented about 10% of the company’s workforce, HP said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4057553/layoffs-jobs-september/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4057553/layoffs-jobs-september/"},"headline":"Here’s How Many Jobs U.S. Companies Cut In September","datePublished":"2015-10-01T14:29:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:06:43.944Z","description":"The computer industry was hit hard","url":"https://time.com/4057553/layoffs-jobs-september/","keywords":["Jobs","Tech","Economy","Employment","U.S.","Data topic","Hewlett Packard","Layoffs","pubdesk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5754f9abe4a19dbe/69886666ab6d77706b6a6776/gettyimages-475647726.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Lorenzetti / Fortune"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5754f9abe4a19dbe/69886666ab6d77706b6a6776/gettyimages-475647726.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"gettyimages-475647726","caption":"Meg Whitman, chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co., speaks with the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise logo on the screen, during the HP Discover 2015 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Hewlett-Packard Co. reported fisc","creditText":"David Paul Morris—© 2015 Bloomberg Finance LP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/jobs/","name":"Jobs"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4057553/layoffs-jobs-september/","name":"Here’s How Many Jobs U.S. Companies Cut In September"}}]}] ```