About this site

Before hiring someone on an H-1B visa, a US employer must file a Labor Condition Application (LCA) with the Department of Labor. The application states the job title, where the work is, and the salary offered. The Labor Department publishes these applications every quarter, and this site turns them into something you can search.

What's included

• Only H-1B applications the Labor Department certified. Denied and withdrawn ones are left out, as are H-1B1 and E-3 visas.
• Applications received from 2 January 2023 to 23 June 2026.
• The salary is the lower end of the offered range, turned into a yearly amount. Hourly pay counts as 2,080 hours a year, the same as the Labor Department uses.
• Salaries under $20,000 or over $1,500,000 a year are left out, because they are almost always typing errors.

How to read it

• A filing is not a hire. Employers often file before the lottery, and some filings never lead to a visa. One filing can also cover several workers.
• Salary is base pay. Bonuses and stock are not included, so total pay at big tech firms is often much higher.
• The prevailing wage is the minimum the employer must pay for that job and place. The wage level, I to IV, shows which experience band the Labor Department matched the job to.
• Employer names are grouped when they differ only in punctuation or endings such as Inc or LLC. Job titles are grouped the same way.

Source

US Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification, LCA disclosure data. Map outlines from the US Census Bureau through us-atlas. An independent site using public data. Nothing here is legal or immigration advice.