Apple
AAPLApple's Technical Filing Volume Deserves Its Own Page
Apple is more than a consumer-device brand in these records. This profile follows the Apple employer boundary: Apple employer-name rows, primarily Apple Inc., with Apple-specific variants included when present.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 32,075 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 33,718. FY2025 alone accounts for 7,102 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 15,509 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.
21 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
Apple Inc. Carries the Load
Apple Inc. accounts for the overwhelming share of rows, which makes this one of the cleaner high-volume boundaries in the investigation.
The peak year in the full-year series is FY2025, with 7,102 filings. FY2026 currently shows 1,643 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.
A Narrow Layoff Story, a Large Filing Story
Reuters/Bloomberg-linked reporting says Apple made targeted sales-role reductions. That is narrower than the large tech layoff stories at other companies, so this page keeps the controversy centered on filing volume and job mix.
Apple's public workforce context is narrower than many tech peers, so the page keeps the emphasis on filing volume, role mix, and wages.
Apple's public workforce context is limited; do not overstate it as broad layoffs.
The Apple Pipeline Is Technical Labor
The leading occupation is Software Developers; the leading title is Software Development Engineer. The filing stream lands in the same engineering market where Apple competes for scarce labor.
For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $175,341, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $171,434. That is a $3,907 spread over the legal wage floor.
Cupertino Is the Anchor
Cupertino, Ca leads the worksite list with 18,328 rows, while Sunnyvale, Austin, and San Diego show the broader technical footprint.
Apple Sponsors Beyond the H-1B Step
Apple's PERM layer adds 7,107 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 1,255 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 | 2,814 |
| Software Development Engineer - Applications | 2,356 |
| Software Development Engineer - Systems | 1,336 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 1,190 |
| Engineering Project Manager | 1,011 |
| Asic Design Engineer | 935 |
| Software Engineering Applications | 868 |
| Software Development Engineering | 794 |
| Hardware Development Engineer | 750 |
| Software Development Engineer - Test | 735 |
- 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/Bloomberg-linked Apple role-reduction context.
- 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.