Giving Notice in Utah

This is a model, not a count. No survey asks Utah workers whether they gave notice. These numbers combine national surveys that did ask with Utah's monthly quit rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The shaded bands show how far off it could be. How it's built

All Utah quitters

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Salaried or under contract

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Hourly, no contract

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Share of Utah quitters who gave notice

Each month, 3-month average. Any advance notice counts, not only two weeks.

What surveys have actually found

Every survey that asked people whether they gave notice is national, and none splits the answer by hourly versus salaried. They also ask different questions: no notice at all, less than two weeks, ever versus last time. That's why they disagree.

Survey	Who	Found	Used here
Clever Real Estate, early 2022	About 1,000 U.S. adults who quit a job in the past year	13% ghosted and 10% left right after resigning, so 23% gave no notice. 22% gave the standard two weeks; nearly half gave a week or less.	Calibration target (range 15–30%)
Harris Poll for Express Employment Professionals, April 2022	2,061 U.S. adults	At their last resignation, 55% gave two weeks' notice and 18% did not. Gen Z 23%, millennials 22%.	As a ceiling: no-notice can't exceed "not two weeks"
iHire, March 2025	1,645 U.S. workers	22% have quit a job without notice at least once.	Context (counts a lifetime, not a quit)
iHire Talent Retention Report, Oct. 2025	1,185 job seekers on iHire	2.6% quit a job without two weeks' notice in the past year.	Low end of the range
Blind, Oct. 2021	5,000 tech workers	"Only a small percentage" have ever left without notice.	Salaried workers skip notice far less
Monster, 2025	About 3,600 U.S. workers	Nearly half said they had "revenge quit," walking out without warning.	Set aside (far out of line with the others)
Pew Research, 2021	U.S. adults	24% of lower-income adults quit a job in 2021, against 11% of upper-income adults.	Hourly workers quit more often

How the estimate is built

Two groups. Salaried workers and anyone under a contract (a union contract, a teaching contract) versus hourly workers with no contract. In Utah, 57% of wage and salary workers are paid by the hour (895,000 of about 1.56 million) and 7.8% are covered by a union contract, so about 53% are hourly with no contract (BLS, 2024–25).
Hourly workers with no contract skip notice about 4 times as often as salaried or contract workers (range 2.5–6), and quit about 2.3 times as often (range 1.8–3). No survey splits notice-giving by pay, so the first number is a judgment: tech workers almost never skip notice, and restaurants and retail lose 3–4 times as many workers a month as finance or government do.
More walk out when jobs are easy to find. Each month, each group's no-notice share rises and falls with its quit rate compared with its 2001–2025 average. Hourly jobs use the quit rates in retail and in restaurants and hotels. Salaried and contract jobs use finance and insurance, information, and public schools and colleges.
Utah's own job market. Each month is scaled by how far Utah's quit rate is above or below its own average, compared with the nation's. BLS releases Utah's figures less often than the national ones. For months it hasn't released yet, the model uses the national trend and Utah's average gap over its last 12 published months. Those months are dashed on the chart.
Tuned to the surveys. A national run of the same model is set so that, for quits from March 2021 through February 2022, 23% gave no notice, matching the Clever survey.
The band is every combination of the low, middle, and high assumptions below (81 runs), from the lowest result to the highest in each month.

no-notice share N = b × T^β T = group quit rate ÷ its 2001–2025 average (× Utah's gap) gave notice = 1 − N hourly, no contract b_H = r × b_S all Utah quitters weighted by each group's share of quits (about 70–76% hourly)

Assumption	Middle	Range	Basis
No-notice share of quits, U.S., Mar 2021–Feb 2022	23%	15–30%	Clever (23%); Harris puts "not two weeks" at 18–25%; iHire finds less
Hourly ÷ salaried, skipping notice (r)	4×	2.5–6×	Judgment; Blind, plus quit rates by industry
Hourly ÷ salaried, quitting (k)	2.3×	1.8–3×	Pew by income; JOLTS by industry
How closely no-notice follows the job market (β)	1	0.5–1.5	Judgment; "ghosting" reports peaked in the tight markets of 2018–19 and 2021–22

What it leaves out

Anything particular to Utah beyond its job market, such as a stronger habit of giving notice. Nothing measures that.
Differences inside each group: teenagers' first jobs, part-time work, and gig work.
How much notice. The lines count any advance notice. A full two weeks is rarer: 55% of adults gave it at their last resignation (Harris), but only 22% of people who quit in the year to early 2022 did (Clever).

What Utah law says

No notice is required. Utah is an at-will state: a worker can quit on the spot and an employer can let a worker go on the spot. Two weeks is a custom, not a law.
Unless there's a contract. A signed agreement or a union contract that requires notice is enforceable on its own terms.
Final pay is owed either way. Someone who quits is paid by the next regular payday; someone let go, within 24 hours (Utah Code 34-28-5). An employer can't keep earned wages because no notice was given.
Unused vacation is owed only if the employer's policy promises it (Utah Admin. Code R610-3-4). That policy and "not eligible for rehire" are the usual ways an employer encourages notice.

The numbers

Yearly averages of the monthly estimates, % who gave notice. The download has every month with its range.

Data and updates

Quit rates are from the BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey: seasonally adjusted quits as a share of all jobs, each month. This page checks for new figures every morning. BLS publishes national figures about five weeks after a month ends, and state figures less often.