By the H-1B Salary Data Editorial Team · Last updated: October 2026
This index ranks employers by the number of certified Labor Condition Applications attributed to them in the U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure files for FY2024 and FY2025. Ranking by filing count is a ranking by volume, not by pay, generosity or prestige: the employers at the top are a mixture of very large technology firms filing for their own staff, healthcare systems, universities, and consulting and staffing firms filing for workers who will perform services at client sites. Each name links to a full employer page with its median offered wage, mean, middle-half range, top occupations and top worksites, all computed from the same certified filings.
Filing volume needs careful interpretation. A single LCA case is a filing, not a person: some cases cover more than one worker position, some workers appear in more than one filing over two years as roles change or amendments are filed, and a certified filing does not by itself prove that the employment began. Volume is nevertheless useful. It shows where sponsored employment is concentrated, which employers a researcher is most likely to encounter in a given occupation or city, and how much data sits behind each employer's median â a median built on thousands of filings is far more stable than one built on a handful.
Readers comparing employers should move from this ranking to the occupation pages before drawing conclusions about pay. An employer whose filings are mostly software roles will almost always show a higher overall median than an employer whose filings span many lower-paid professional occupations, even if the second employer pays more within every shared occupation. The employer pages make that decomposition explicit by listing each firm's top occupations with their shares, so a reader can see the mix behind the headline figure rather than guessing at it.
All counts on this page use only cases whose status is exactly Certified. Denied, withdrawn and certified-withdrawn cases are excluded everywhere on this site, and headline medians use only filings paid on an annual wage unit, with implausible placeholder wages removed under the outlier rule described in the methodology. The full employer table below covers the 150 employers with the most certified cases in the combined FY2024âFY2025 dataset; together they account for a large share of all certified filings nationally, while the remaining filings are spread across tens of thousands of smaller employers.
Every figure on this page was computed by our script directly from the U.S. Department of Labor OFLC LCA disclosure files for FY2024 Q4 and FY2025 Q1âQ4, retrieved in October 2026. We kept only cases whose CASE_STATUS is exactly “Certified” â denied, withdrawn and certified-withdrawn cases are excluded. Headline medians use filings whose wage unit is a year, because annual salaries compare cleanly; hourly, weekly and monthly filings are counted in case totals but are not converted into the headline median, and our methodology page explains that choice in full. Wages below $15,080 a year (the annualized federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour) or above $1,000,000 a year are excluded from medians as likely data-entry placeholders, and the number excluded is reported in the manifest that accompanies this site. Medians are shown alongside means because a handful of very large offers can drag a mean far above what a typical filing actually offered.