Adobe
ADBEAdobe's Creative Software Brand Has a Technical Visa Core
Adobe's public image is creative software, documents, and marketing tools. The employer boundary here is Adobe Inc. and Adobe employer-name variants.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 5,313 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 6,109. FY2025 alone accounts for 1,180 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 2,188 approvals across the available approval rows. Where FY2025 rows are initial approvals only, the page labels them that way. LCA filings are not headcount, hired workers, or proof that a specific American worker was replaced.
* FY2026 is partial, through Mar 31, 2026.
22 total denials across all years (0.4% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
Adobe Inc. Makes This a Clean Profile
Adobe Inc. accounts for nearly every row, so the story is not entity sprawl; it is the scale of Adobe's technical filing base.
The peak year in the full-year series is FY2024, with 1,240 filings. FY2026 currently shows 796 rows and should be read as a partial-year value, not as a final decline.
This site no longer charts H-1B filings as a share of workforce. The ratio can blur U.S. employees, global employees, contractors, and offshore delivery headcount into one denominator.
Rows with a disclosed U.S.-employee denominator available here: 0. The analysis now uses filings, approvals, wage, worksite, and title concentration instead.
* FY2026 is partial, through Mar 31, 2026.
A Narrow Sales Cut, a Broader Tech Pipeline
Reuters-linked reporting says Adobe cut about 100 sales jobs during a broader tech cost-tightening period. This is limited context next to a larger technical filing profile.
Adobe's public workforce story is narrow, so the page keeps the pressure on the filing numbers, role mix, and wage comparison.
The Adobe public-story context is narrow; the filing numbers carry the page.
Adobe's Product Story Is Software Labor
The leading occupation is Software Developers; the leading title is Software Development Engineer. The filings sit in the same technical market that builds Adobe's products.
For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $186,428, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $163,293. That is a $23,135 spread over the legal wage floor.
San Jose Is the Center
San Jose, Ca leads the mapped worksites with 3,500 rows, followed by the other West Coast software hubs in Adobe's footprint.
Adobe Sponsors Beyond Temporary Filings
Adobe records 1,641 PERM labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 466 in FY2025.
PERM records are a different process from H-1B petitions, but they matter because the sponsorship timeline can tie a worker to an employer for years.
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| Title | Count |
|---|---|
| Software Development Engineer | 1,946 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 421 |
| Product Manager | 249 |
| Research Scientist/engineer | 147 |
| Data Science Engineer | 132 |
| User Experience Designer | 90 |
| Business Intelligence Analyst | 82 |
| Technical Support Engineer | 76 |
- LCA filings and salary data: DOL OFLC disclosure rows mapped by the employer-name boundary used for this investigation.
- H-1B approvals: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub CSV rows for FY2020-FY2023, plus FY2025 hub initial approvals where available.
- PERM data: DOL OFLC PERM disclosure rows mapped with the same employer-name boundary.
- Reuters-linked Adobe sales-role cuts context, 2023.
- BLS wage comparison: OEWS May 2023 national median for software developers.
Caveat: LCA filings are not H-1B petitions or hired workers. FY2025 USCIS hub rows are initial approvals only, so denial rates are not computed for those rows.