How many PAGA notices are filed in California each year?

This site's count averages 843 PAGA notices filed with the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency a month, over the 7 complete months, January 2026 to July 2026. The site holds no complete count for any earlier year.

Last updated 29 September 2026. The numbers are rebuilt every Monday.

What the count covers

This dataset holds PAGA notices filed with the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency. Coverage starts on 1 January 2026. That is where the query window of the one historical load this dataset has had begins, and nothing earlier than it was ever loaded on purpose. Since 4 September 2026 a pull has run every day, querying that day and the three days before it, so a notice the agency posts late is picked up over the days that follow. The agency's own search filters on the date a notice was posted rather than the date it was filed, so a small number of notices carry a filing date from before 2026. Those are notices reposted inside the 2026 window, and they are not historical coverage. The agency publishes no completeness guarantee and its search gives no way to confirm that it returned every matching record, so any count built from this dataset is what was collected rather than a certified count of what exists.

The months after July 2026 are still filling, because PAGA notices are posted late, so the average leaves them out. The months one by one, the total and the counts by county are on PAGA notice counts by month and county.

Counting on the state's search

The PAGA case search is free, and its results page gives a Total No. of Results Found for the submission type and date range you search. Its dates are submission dates, so its total for a period is not this count, which goes by filing date.

For new notices as they arrive, see the file of new notices. It is a different set from these counts, cut by the day each notice reaches this dataset rather than by its filing date. It carries only the notices that name an employer with a California address, and leaves out any whose employer name reads as a person's name.