Insights · H-1B
Groundwork research · Published October 5, 2026 · Data as of June 30, 2026 · 4 min read
Employers received 115,695 certified H-1B wage disclosures in Jul–Sep 2025, 2.3% fewer than the same months of the year before (118,475). Under that total, 81 of the 300 largest sponsors filed at least 15% less, and 57 filed at least 15% more.
-2.3% year over year
We ranked sponsors by their filings across all the data and compared each one's filings in the same three months of the two years. A change of 15% or more counts as growing or shrinking; 83 of the 300 filed fewer than 50 in the earlier quarter, which is too few for a trend read.
Sponsors by change in filings, Jul–Sep 2024 to Jul–Sep 2025
Largest drops in filings (among the 300 biggest)
Largest gains in filings
An employer's filings can move because its hiring moved, because of timing, or because filings shifted to a sister entity. A name that falls to zero is the place to check for the last of these.
23,165 employers had a certified filing in Jul–Sep 2024. 68% of them filed again in Jul 2025–Jun 2026. Among the 12,924 that filed once, 53% did, and among the 1,619 that filed ten or more times, 98% did.
Filed again within a year of Jul–Sep 2024
A $100,000 fee on certain new H-1B petitions was proclaimed in September 2025 and has been in court since: a federal court in Massachusetts vacated it on June 8, 2026, and the appeals continue. The Jul–Sep 2025 quarter ends just after the proclamation, so it shows the months before the fee. The same months of 2026 will be the first full like-for-like quarter after it, and this article will be updated when DOL publishes them.
Wage disclosures come before petitions, so these counts show what employers planned to file. The DOL files we hold cover Jul–Sep 2024, Jul–Sep 2025, Oct 2025–Jun 2026. Filing volume rises and falls with the season, so every comparison here uses the same 3 months of two years.
Certified wage disclosures (LCAs) in DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data, decisions through June 30, 2026. Employer spellings are merged by normalized name
("Acme Inc." and "ACME, INC" are one employer) and each approved family of names (Amazon files under a dozen) counts as one. Retention follows employers with a certified filing in
Jul–Sep 2024 into the 12 months starting a year later (Jul 2025–Jun 2026). Built by scripts/build_insights.py.
Sources: DOL OFLC performance data; TM Immigration on the fee litigation; CUPA-HR on the June 8 decision.
Informational only; not legal, immigration, or financial advice.
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