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What ProFrac layoffs have meant for employees

ProFrac's 2025 cutbacks show up in its annual reports far more than in layoff filings. The company ended that year with a net 797 fewer people after many customers pulled back from April and it trimmed labor costs and headcount, its 2025 annual report and 2024 annual report show, and a net figure also moves with people who quit, retire or are hired. The only 2025 filing tied to ProFrac in our WARN tracker, five jobs at Dickinson, North Dakota, is dated March 3, a month before that pullback began, so none of the cost cutting that followed shows up there. If your ProFrac job ended later in 2025 with no notice behind it, that fits what the company's own numbers describe.

A tally of filings can't tell a furlough from a transfer or a permanent exit, and FTS International's history before ProFrac bought it had all three. In March 2020 its chief executive said business had been growing on a full frac calendar just over two weeks before the company began furloughing crews, according to its March 2020 release, which listed furloughs and pay cuts. Shreveport saw the other two, with transfers to Longview offered in 2015, which KSLA reported, and an office closing the company called permanent in 2018, which The Advocate covered. If you left FTS International in one of those years, a filing count alone can't say whether your job paused or ended, and the same goes for U.S. Well Services' three 2021 Texas filings and Advanced Stimulation Technologies' 2015 Midland filing, each made more than a year before ProFrac owned the company.

None of the 2,280 people ProFrac employed at the end of 2025 were represented by a union or bound by a collective bargaining agreement, by the 2025 annual report's account, so as of that date no union contract set the terms of a ProFrac layoff. In our tracker, the company's own two filings since 2025 are in North Dakota and Utah, and the ten older ones tied to it are all in Texas, so if you lost a ProFrac job in one of those states, the claim rules are at Utah unemployment benefits, Texas unemployment benefits and North Dakota unemployment benefits.

Vernal turned fast. A ProFrac fleet there logged more than 1,100 pumping hours in March 2025, and the company had moved into a new Vernal building in 2024, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. On March 12, 2026, Executive Chairman Matt Wilks said momentum was building and the labor savings in ProFrac's cost plan were fully in place, in the company's 2025 full-year results, four months after he had said in its third-quarter 2025 results that onshore completions were well positioned to recover once commodity prices strengthened. The Vernal notice came two weeks later, and its letter counted a slump in the local market among the reasons. Together they show one basin's work drying up while the company described its national outlook improving.

For Vernal staff, the letter held out other ProFrac jobs, which employees could apply for, and the chance that some would be retained or recalled if ProFrac Services won new contracts or business. If you were on that list and applied for another ProFrac job, it may help to keep the letter, the date you applied and any reply in one place, in case a question about recall or rehire comes up later. If you're deciding whether to wait for a recall, it may be worth asking ProFrac how it would reach you if new work came in.