Insights · Wage and hour
Groundwork research · Published November 10, 2026 · Data as of June 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Walmart is in the news this week, and readers ask what the public records hold. The Wage and Hour Division database lists 1 concluded case under the name Walmart, dated February 15, 2010, and the Labor Department's H-1B disclosure data lists 4,078 certified filings.
The Wage and Hour Division enforcement database lists concluded compliance actions. Under the operating name WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC., the division concluded 1 case, in 2010. The division assessed $5,280 in civil penalties and $0 in back wages, and the case names 1 employee.
The case carries child labor findings. Investigators record child labor findings under their own part of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the division tracks them separately from wage rules. Cases in this database are ones the division concluded with a recorded finding, and the entry is the division's own.
A count of concluded cases is a count of records. An employer with a very large workforce and many locations generates more records than a small one, so a count describes the database and cannot measure how any employer behaves. The Wage and Hour Division publishes the data, and the database covers only actions the division has concluded. A matter in the news this week can take months to appear in it.
The Labor Department also publishes disclosure data on employer filings for H-1B workers. The records list 4,078 certified filings for Walmart, and DOL certified 98.0% of the filings it decided. The most common occupation is Software Developers, with 2,502 filings and a median offered wage of $145,468. Next come Data Scientists, with 949 filings.
Between Jul–Sep 2024 and Jul–Sep 2025, the same months a year apart, filings fell 39%, from 1,130 to 693. The like-for-like trend is shrinking.
Certified H-1B filings, the same months a year apart
The wage-and-hour records cover cases concluded through 2010 for this employer name, and the latest entry is dated February 15, 2010. The H-1B records cover the periods named above. Neither source describes a current matter, a state settlement or a court filing. Official announcements from the agencies and states involved are the place to read about those, and this page will carry whatever the public federal records add as they arrive.
Wage-and-hour figures are concluded compliance actions in the Wage and Hour Division enforcement database, loaded July 14, 2026. A case counts once, in the year its findings end, and a case that appears under two statutes still counts once.
Hiring figures count certified H-1B wage filings (labor condition applications) in DOL's disclosure data, covering 15 months of DOL decisions (Jul–Sep 2024, Jul–Sep 2025, Oct 2025–Jun 2026). A filing is an employer's certified wage offer for a job, and a bigger employer files more.
The records cover cases DOL concluded and notices employers filed, and each figure describes what was recorded in them.
Sources: DOL Open Data Portal, Wage and Hour Division enforcement data; DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, LCA disclosure data.
Informational only; not legal, immigration, or financial advice.
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