H-1B Data: Top 100 Tech Companies

2Companies filing the most LCAs (2022–2024)

Filing volume is the clearest signal of active H-1B hiring intent. The top 10 filers by LCA count across the three-year window: Amazon (312,000+ LCAs), Infosys (287,000+), Tata Consultancy Services (241,000+), Cognizant (198,000+), Google (156,000+), Microsoft (143,000+), Meta (89,000+), Apple (71,000+), Deloitte (68,000+), Wipro (61,000+).

The consulting and IT services firms (Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, Wipro) dominate by volume. They sponsor primarily for client-placement roles. For tech product companies, Amazon and Google lead by a significant margin. The gap between the product companies and everyone else is wider than most candidates assume.

3Approval rates across employer types

LCA certification rates are high across the board, above 95% for most large employers. LCA denial is rare. The more meaningful variable is post-lottery I-129 approval rate, which is harder to extract from public data. The proxy the pipeline uses is LCA-to-hire ratio: certified LCAs divided by estimated H-1B hires in the same period (sourced from Glassdoor and LinkedIn hiring data).

Product companies show ratios closer to 1:1. They file LCAs with genuine intent to hire. Consulting firms show ratios significantly above 1:1, suggesting bench filing for placement pipelines. For a candidate evaluating sponsorship reliability, the LCA-to-hire ratio matters more than raw certification rate.

The practical read for a candidate: don't be impressed by a 96% certification rate, because nearly everyone clears that bar. The certification step is a wage-and-conditions check, not a hiring decision. What separates a reliable sponsor from a volume filer is whether those certified LCAs turn into actual offers, which is exactly what the LCA-to-hire ratio captures and raw certification rate hides.

4Salary medians by employer and role

LCA filings disclose both the prevailing wage (the floor set by DOL for the role/location) and the actual wage offered. For the top 20 product-company filers, the software engineering median actual wage across 2022–2024: $175,000–$225,000. Data roles (ML, Data Science): $185,000–$235,000. Product Management: $160,000–$210,000.

The prevailing wage floor is consistently below the actual wage at top product companies, a useful check when evaluating whether a company's sponsorship history suggests fair compensation. Companies whose actual wages are consistently close to the prevailing wage floor are worth additional scrutiny.

5Trend by company: filing more or pulling back

Direction matters as much as level. A company filing more LCAs in 2024 than in 2022 is rebuilding sponsorship capacity; one pulling back is freezing or shrinking it. The year-over-year shifts below come straight from the filing counts, grouped by where each employer landed.

6What the scoring engine does with this data

The H-1B sponsors database in the pipeline pulls directly from LCA disclosures and updates quarterly. For any job posting, you can see the employer's filing history, certification rate, median wage for the specific role type, and year-over-year filing trend, without leaving the scoring view.

This matters most when evaluating whether to invest time in an application. A company with 0 LCA filings in the last 24 months almost certainly won't sponsor. A company with 500+ filings and a median wage above prevailing is a meaningfully different application than the same role at a company with an unclear history.

The practical workflow is short. Before you tailor a resume for a role that needs sponsorship, check the employer's filing history, confirm they've filed for your specific role type recently, and look at whether actual wages sit above the prevailing floor. If all three line up, the application is worth real effort. If the company has never filed, or files only for unrelated roles, the time is better spent elsewhere. The data turns a guess about sponsorship willingness into a check you can run in under a minute.