An Independent Investigation

The talent shortage
is a myth.

This is labor arbitrage.

The federal dataset loaded for this investigation contains 9,472,472 Labor Condition Applications for foreign workers. The company pages below isolate the employers whose public records best expose the playbook: file at scale, pay the legal minimum, and lock workers in with green card sponsorship.

Total LCA Filings9,472,472
|
Approval Rate97-99%
|
Green Card Sponsors686,519
|
Amazon PERM Filings25,462
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Commodity IT Roles65%+
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Companies Tracked87
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Years of DataFY2020-2026
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Total LCA Filings9,472,472
|
Approval Rate97-99%
|
Green Card Sponsors686,519
|
Amazon PERM Filings25,462
|
Commodity IT Roles65%+
|
Companies Tracked87
|
Years of DataFY2020-2026
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The Numbers

What the public records show.

Every data point here comes from public federal filings - the paper trail employers created themselves.

9,472,472
Total LCA Filings
All DOL OFLC LCA disclosure rows loaded for this investigation
686,519
Green Card Sponsorships
All DOL OFLC PERM disclosure rows loaded for this investigation
65%+
Commodity IT Work
Software devs, analysts, QA - not specialized talent
97-99%
USCIS Approval Rate
Rubber stamp. Virtually zero oversight.
25,462
Amazon PERM Filings
Green card apps from one company alone - nearly 4x the next biggest sponsor
23,619
Amazon Peak H-1B Approvals
FY2022 - more than every bank in this dataset combined

The Playbook

The talent shortage is a myth.
This is labor arbitrage.

01

File at Scale

Thousands of Labor Condition Applications filed per year. Volume is the strategy.

02

Pay the Floor

Nearly a third of filings cluster right at the prevailing wage minimum. Compliance minimums, not competitive offers.

03

Route to Low-Cost Cities

Workers sent to locations where prevailing wage obligations are lowest. Geographic arbitrage baked into the system.

04

Lock Them In

Sponsor green cards. The worker can't leave, can't negotiate, can't push back. Their immigration status is the leash.

The Companies

87 companies. More than a million filings.

Search the selected high-volume company profiles and open any page for the full breakdown.

87 / 87 companies
Profile
01AmazonAMZN

The largest e-commerce and cloud computing company in the world - and the single biggest H-1B sponsor in the United States.

94,791
$155,886
98.6%
02InfosysINFY

A global IT services and consulting company with a large U.S. H-1B filing footprint.

37,520
$99,645
-
03MicrosoftMSFT

The world's second-largest company by market cap and the #2 H-1B sponsor in America - filing thousands of visa applications while laying off thousands of workers.

36,429
$171,891
98.3%
04CognizantCTSH

A global IT services and consulting firm with heavy H-1B usage and documented discrimination litigation context.

34,982
$111,630
-

A global IT services and consulting firm and one of the largest H-1B sponsors in the dataset.

34,279
$90,192
-

The world's largest social media company - and one of only a handful of H-1B Dependent employers in Big Tech.

29,915
$205,348
99.1%
07GoogleGOOGL

Alphabet's search, advertising, cloud, and AI core, with affiliated filings from Google, Waymo, YouTube, Verily, DeepMind, Wing, and other Alphabet entities.

24,104
$185,772
98.7%
08DeloittePRIVATE

A Big Four consulting and audit firm whose U.S. consulting, audit, tax, and advisory entities combine into a very large visa profile.

22,167
$130,320
97.9%
09AppleAAPL

The iPhone, Mac, services, silicon, and retail giant, with a high-volume technical H-1B profile centered on Apple employer entities.

15,509
$175,341
98.7%

The largest U.S. bank by assets and one of the biggest H-1B sponsors in financial services.

14,513
$162,581
99.5%
11HCL AmericaHCLTECH

The U.S. arm of HCLTech and a major IT services H-1B sponsor.

13,672
$112,180
-

A global IT services and consulting company with a substantial U.S. LCA footprint under Capgemini employer names.

13,066
$131,087
98.3%
13WiproWIT

A global IT services company with sustained H-1B filings for consulting and technical delivery roles.

12,069
$96,786
-
14IBMIBM

A legacy technology and consulting company whose profile includes IBM, International Business Machines, and Red Hat employer rows.

11,235
$130,910
98%

A global consulting and outsourcing firm with a large U.S. H-1B footprint across Accenture employer entities.

10,844
$134,790
98.3%
16IntelINTC

A major U.S. semiconductor manufacturer with high-volume technical filings during a period of restructuring and cost cuts.

10,333
$130,676
94.4%

The merged Larsen & Toubro Infotech and Mindtree outsourcing giant, an H-1B dependent employer that parks thousands of workers at U.S. client sites.

10,021
$107,975
99.1%
18Ernst & YoungPRIVATE

A Big Four audit and consulting partnership with one of the largest H-1B filing footprints in the public records.

9,980
$151,183
97.3%
19OracleORCL

A database, cloud, enterprise software, and health-tech company whose profile includes Oracle, NetSuite, and Cerner employer rows.

9,380
$147,922
99%
20WalmartWMT

The world’s largest retailer, with a large technology organization and substantial H-1B filings.

8,136
$145,052
-

An Indian IT outsourcing major whose U.S. filings run through Tech Mahindra (Americas) and cluster in commodity programmer and analyst roles.

7,725
$111,534
98.4%
22CiscoCSCO

A networking and enterprise technology company with sustained H-1B filings for engineering, cloud, security, and software roles.

7,225
$147,638
97.8%

A cloud software company whose profile includes Salesforce plus acquired platform entities such as Slack, Tableau, and MuleSoft.

7,048
$203,914
98.2%
24PwCPRIVATE

A Big Four audit, tax, and advisory firm whose filings include PricewaterhouseCoopers and PwC employer variants.

6,860
$175,127
99.3%
25QualcommQCOM

A wireless, modem, and semiconductor company whose H-1B filings concentrate in high-value engineering roles.

5,756
$142,309
96%
26CompunnelPRIVATE

A New Jersey IT staffing firm that paid a $313,420 DOJ settlement in 2026 for posting H-1B-only job ads that shut out American workers.

5,745
$112,173
96.7%

The retirement-money giant whose visa filings run through a dedicated Fidelity Technology Group entity concentrated in Durham and Westlake.

5,299
$124,397
97%
28PayPalPYPL

A payments giant planning major cost cuts while ranking as a top-50 H-1B sponsor with software-heavy filings.

4,951
$175,837
98.6%

Citigroup’s banking entity in the dataset, with H-1B filings concentrated in software and quantitative roles.

4,705
$161,673
-

A major bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, and banking, with a large tech workforce.

4,579
$145,402
99.9%

A Wall Street investment bank whose filings cluster in software, quant, finance, and platform roles.

4,479
$132,699
98.3%

The U.S. outsourcing arm of France's Atos, an H-1B dependent employer built on the old Syntel body-shop model.

4,131
$104,127
97.8%
33VirtusaPRIVATE

A Baring Private Equity-owned IT services firm and H-1B dependent employer that staffs banks and insurers from Tampa to New York.

3,999
$121,356
97%
34RandstadRAND

The world's largest staffing company, whose U.S. arms Randstad Technologies and Randstad Digital rent out thousands of sponsored engineers to client sites.

3,894
$131,607
93.7%
35TeslaTSLA

An electric vehicle, energy, robotics, and AI company with rapidly growing H-1B filings.

3,780
$153,452
-
36MphasisMPHASIS

A Blackstone-backed Indian IT services firm and H-1B dependent employer whose U.S. filings run through a single Mphasis Corporation entity.

3,765
$117,697
99.3%

The pharmacy-insurance conglomerate whose visa filings hide across Aetna, Caremark, and CVS Pharmacy entities while 2,900 corporate jobs were cut.

3,726
$144,370
99%
38NVIDIANVDA

A leading AI and accelerated-computing chip company with high-salary H-1B technical roles.

3,657
$186,719
-
39LinkedInMSFT

Microsoft's professional network, whose H-1B filings run through a single LinkedIn Corporation entity concentrated in Sunnyvale and Mountain View.

3,516
$177,711
99.6%

A global financial services corporation known for credit cards and payment processing.

3,443
$150,670
99.1%

A legacy automaker whose direct H-1B filings cluster around Michigan engineering, software, and vehicle validation roles.

3,368
$142,067
98.3%
42VisaV

A payments network and fintech infrastructure company with a concentrated high-wage technical visa profile.

3,139
$144,871
99.2%
43KforceKFRC

A Tampa-based staffing firm that has filed thousands of H-1B LCAs to place developers and analysts at client sites across 45 states.

3,061
$118,893
92%

A Carlyle-owned Indian IT services firm and H-1B dependent employer whose filings track banking and insurance client sites around Washington and Chicago.

2,996
$105,381
97.1%
45eBayEBAY

The marketplace veteran that filed WARN notices for 639 U.S. workers in 2026 while applying for 429 new H-1B positions in the same fiscal year.

2,855
$189,991
99.7%
46UberUBER

A ride-hailing, delivery, logistics, and marketplace technology company with software-heavy H-1B filings.

2,805
$190,861
97.8%
47VMwareAVGO

The virtualization giant absorbed by Broadcom in 2023, where sponsored engineers learned their visas were a lever the new owner could simply decline to pull.

2,797
$192,722
98.6%
48CumminsCMI

The Indiana engine maker whose sponsored engineers carry a median salary of $80,642, among the lowest of any major manufacturer on this site.

2,665
$102,314
94%

A major U.S. bank whose H-1B filings include Bank of America and Merrill Lynch employer rows.

2,622
$157,442
99.1%

The investment bank that cut 2,500 jobs in early 2026 while its sponsored workforce filed under generic Vice President and Associate titles.

2,599
$167,182
95.1%
51BloombergPRIVATE

The financial data giant whose own newsroom documents the H-1B story while Bloomberg L.P. runs a 3,300-filing sponsored bench in New York.

2,342
$148,318
98.3%

The white-shoe consultancy whose sponsored job titles are literally its org chart, with a green-card pipeline nearly as large as its visa filings.

2,296
$177,878
97.2%
53IntuitINTU

The TurboTax and QuickBooks maker that laid off 1,800 people in 2024 while its H-1B petitions sailed through at a 99.9% approval rate.

2,225
$178,979
99.2%
54AdobeADBE

A creative, document, marketing, and AI software company with high-wage technical H-1B filings.

2,188
$186,310
93.6%

A legacy automaker whose H-1B filings concentrate around software, product engineering, mobility, and vehicle technology roles.

2,112
$132,763
98.9%

UnitedHealth's technology arm, running rolling layoff waves through 2024 and 2025 while sponsoring thousands of engineers in Minnesota.

2,088
$127,943
99.4%
57UST GlobalPRIVATE

A California-based IT services firm and H-1B dependent employer whose single biggest worksite cluster is Bentonville, Arkansas, home of Walmart.

2,031
$112,869
98.2%
58ByteDancePRIVATE

The parent company of TikTok, with a fast-growing U.S. visa profile across ByteDance and TikTok employer names.

1,980
$209,219
99.6%
59ComcastCMCSA

The cable monopoly whose sponsored engineers file under internal grade codes like Engineer 4, clustered around its Philadelphia headquarters.

1,955
$129,370
97.5%

America's fifth-largest bank, quietly running a sponsored engineering bench through Irving and Minneapolis at wages a step under the market median.

1,840
$131,629
99%

The online furniture retailer whose 2,353 LCA filings cover 4,572 positions, a Boston engineering bench built on sponsorship.

1,802
$166,049
94.2%
62RivianRIVN

The EV startup criticized in Illinois for mass foreign recruitment while collecting state incentives, now on its third layoff round in 18 months.

1,772
$168,314
99.4%
63SAPSAP

The German software giant whose U.S. filings split across SAP America and SAP Labs, with 911 WARN-notice layoffs on the books since 2001.

1,698
$158,278
100%

The carrier that tops end-client lists for H-1B contractors, meaning its true sponsored workforce is far larger than its own filings show.

1,688
$154,628
97.3%

The enterprise workflow platform that ran quiet layoff rounds through 2024 and 2025 while its H-1B pipeline kept filing at full speed.

1,682
$148,915
97.4%

The Spectrum parent with 6,225 workers cut across 51 WARN notices while its leveled engineering roles kept filing from Denver and St. Louis suburbs.

1,668
$124,964
100%
67KPMGPRIVATE

The fourth Big Four firm on this site, cutting about 400 U.S. advisory jobs in early 2025 while its LCA pipeline cleared with zero denials.

1,659
$159,848
96.3%

The payments network announcing AI-driven cuts of 4% of its white-collar staff while its O'Fallon, Missouri tech hub keeps filing.

1,651
$131,417
99.3%
69AMDAMD

The chip designer whose sponsored silicon engineers cluster in Austin and Santa Clara, and which quietly stopped sponsoring new H-1B hires in 2026.

1,630
$155,977
99.4%
70T-MobileTMUS

The un-carrier that drew 2025 backlash over U.S. layoffs beside a new India tech hub and a reported $81.5 million in H-1B salary commitments.

1,622
$150,806
98.6%

The Seattle travel giant on a rolling layoff cadence, 1,427 WARN-notice cuts and counting, while its sponsored engineering bench holds steady.

1,561
$149,667
97.5%

The world's largest asset manager, running its third layoff round in 18 months while holding a sponsored bench of engineers filed under rank titles.

1,512
$144,324
99.2%

The scandal-hardened bank whose 2026 layoffs reignited the H-1B debate while laid-off visa workers took it to court.

1,493
$147,021
98.7%

The memory-chip maker that settled with the DOJ after passing over a U.S. citizen for a job it gave to a temporary visa worker.

1,490
$136,032
100%

The strategy consultancy with a 100% LCA approval record, sponsoring its own career ladder from Consultant to Project Leader.

1,372
$178,695
98.2%
76FiservFI

Wisconsin's largest H-1B employer, a payments conglomerate whose offshore-heavy delivery model shows up in its own filing entities.

1,241
$140,178
97.1%

The enterprise half of the old Hewlett-Packard, running a steady sponsored engineering base from San Jose to its Spring, Texas headquarters.

1,231
$140,225
97.1%
78WorkdayWDAY

The HR software company whose platform administers other firms' layoffs, quietly running its own sponsored engineering bench in Pleasanton.

1,221
$156,863
99%
79DoorDashDASH

The delivery platform whose 2022 layoffs left sponsored engineers racing a visa clock, and whose filing pipeline has only grown since.

1,210
$173,255
96.7%

The network-gear maker, an H-1B dependent employer that cut 440 jobs in early 2024 before being absorbed into HPE.

1,143
$151,983
100%

The engineering-outsourcing firm whose green-card filings now outnumber its visa filings, the lock-in pipeline running at full ratio.

1,128
$118,777
96.8%
82SnapSNAP

The Snapchat maker whose early-2025 cut of 16% of staff swept up its own sponsored machine-learning engineers.

1,025
$169,753
94.4%
83AT&TT

The telecom giant reported to have taken a $146 million federal contract, laid off American workers, and kept hiring sponsored labor in Dallas.

949
$168,612
93.5%
84FISFIS

The Jacksonville payments processor whose sponsored engineers file under internal grade codes across Southern banking hubs.

766
$139,671
98.8%

The Saudi-backed EV maker cutting 18% of its U.S. workforce at the same plants where its sponsored manufacturing engineers file.

736
$152,168
96.4%
86NetflixNFLX

The streaming giant that pays sponsored engineers $225,000 on average, and whose co-founder publicly backed the $100,000 H-1B fee.

730
$225,858
98.8%

The storage maker with 2,308 workers cut across 27 WARN notices while its LCA filings cleared at a 99% approval rate.

697
$135,661
94.9%

Methodology

All sourced. All public.

This entire investigation runs on public federal data - filings these companies submitted to the Department of Labor, USCIS, the SEC, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

They created the paper trail. We read it.

DOL
Dept. of Labor OFLC
Every LCA filing, prevailing wage determination, and worksite location.
USCIS
USCIS Employer Data Hub
H-1B petition approvals, denials, and outcomes by employer and fiscal year.
SEC
SEC 10-K Filings
Annual workforce headcounts - the denominator for calculating H-1B penetration.
BLS
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational wage data to benchmark what the market actually pays.

Note: LCA filings are not the same as H-1B petitions. One worker can have multiple LCAs across different years or locations. The data shows filing volume and patterns - which is exactly the point. The pattern is the story.

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