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Compare offered wages, find employer filings, and follow links to layoff notices, people, and public contracts.
What the records contain / DOL disclosures
Annual trends: all statuses by submission year; quality-flagged rows excluded. Latest year can be incomplete.
Data current as of Nov 4, 2026
DOL OFLC · BLS · State WARN recordsSources & coverage ↗Inspect the wage comparison ↗Evidence Desk
Compare a layoff notice with the same employer’s H-1B requests. See how many positions the employer requests and which jobs appear in the filings.
We match records by employer ID. We use H-1B LCA submission dates from six calendar months before the WARN effective date through six months after it. The LCAs cover the employer across all worksites and all decision outcomes.
Positions are the sum of requested workers in those LCAs. They are not a count of approved visas or unique hires. Repeat filings can cover the same workers. A + means some filings lack a position count.
Seattle, WA
Schaumburg, IL
Berkeley Heights, NJ
Various locations in Washington, WA
Redmond, WA
City of Industry, CA
Menlo Park, CA
PA
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Largest displacement estimates
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Ranked by modeled displacement · bars compare this page
Where is filing activity concentrated?
2,989 counties with filings. Select a county to inspect employers, wages and records.
Color: logarithmic filing count; the darkest shade starts at 10,000 filings. Counts reflect source coverage.
National record / DOL OFLC
Filing volume, workers requested and agency decisions across the available years.
Y-axis zoomed to the data: DOL denies no more than 1.36% of filings in any year shown. See the enforcement page for the full breakdown.
$144.3B certified wage gap (est.): 6.0× NASA's annual budget source
Executive records / DOL × BLS × SEC
Select an executive to connect company filings, wage comparisons and reported pay. Editorial estimates carry separate labels.
Satya Nadella
CEO, Microsoft · came from India on an H-1B
Came to America on an H-1B in 1992, hired by Microsoft. He now runs the company, and its sponsorship program is one of the largest in the country. The numbers on the right are that program's public record.
Microsoft Corporation record
The DOL record
BLS comparison covers 86,470 certified wage filings and 143,087 requested workers. 11,883 eligible filings lack a benchmark.
Compensation & modeled impact
DOL-record figures come from certified filings; displacement is a modeled estimate (methodology on the employer record). Pay is the SEC-proxy total; fortune and company value are editorial estimates, not warehouse data.
Portrait: Brian Smale and Microsoft · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sector records
Inspect healthcare filings, hospital records and university hiring outside the annual H-1B cap.
DOL filings × Hospital cost reports × HRSA
Certified H-1B filings across available years. Both bars use the same records: annual wages, a filed prevailing wage of $20,000–$1,000,000, and a recorded worksite state. Records with data quality flags are excluded.
Linked hospitalsEmployer records joined to hospital cost reports285Primary care shortage areasHRSA designations7,6822,557,230 difference between the counts; employment equals 57% of the licensed count. These sources measure different populations. This is not a count of unemployed nurses. Medical LCAs cover more occupations and years.
DOL filings × IPEDS institutions
IPEDS campus records match LCA employers by tax identifier (EIN). Counts describe matched employer records. Several records can link to one campus. The wage comparison includes instructional LCAs across all visa classes and outcomes.
Certified faculty filingsCertified offers with a wage in range124,282Employer records with large campus wage differencesFiled instructional prevailing wage below 50% of campus staff average21Linked employer recordsIPEDS ↔ LCA employer · EIN match1,214These employer records link to campuses marked cap-exempt. Inspect records and coverage ↗
Filings are application records, not visa approvals or unique workers. Campus wage comparisons mix roles and years. Cap exemption and wage differences do not establish a legal violation.
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Your employer certified a wage with DOL before you signed anything. Look up what the company promised, what the market pays for the role, and what the record shows about that employer.
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Become a Sponsor8,429,818 certified H-1B labor condition applications, with 16,120,808 worker requests, across 371,173 employers in Department of Labor disclosure records. Worker requests are not unique workers or confirmed hires. Inspect the filing records and source coverage for the available history.
$144.3B in estimated wages below the BLS median across certified filings. Denied filings carry a separate $2.68B estimated gap. These comparisons use offered wages and occupational benchmarks. They do not measure verified unpaid wages or establish why DOL denied a filing.
The total is about 19,674,319 modeled worker equivalents. One worker equivalent is the model's base contribution for one position requested in a certified H-1B filing. The total is not a count of unique people or worker-years. A wage offer 20% below the BLS occupation median adds 0.2 equivalents for that position. The total adds records across the available filing history. It does not multiply positions by the length of a visa or job. Renewals, amendments, and repeated filings can represent the same person more than once. The records do not identify every worker, so the model cannot count unique people. The model also adds layoff counts from matched WARN notices. This is not a count of verified layoffs or confirmed H-1B hires. Read the displacement method for the formula and an example.
California has the largest number of worker requests in the site's certified H-1B filing aggregate. This ordering does not establish which state has the most filings or confirmed hires. Its state page shows employers, occupations, offered wages, and linked layoff notices.
Public government disclosures: DOL OFLC filing records, BLS wage benchmarks, WARN layoff notices, USAspending and state contract awards, and HRSA health-workforce files. Every number on the site traces to an archived source document with hash-verified provenance.
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