AT&T
TThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
AT&T needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: AT&T Services, Inc. plus AT&T Mobility Services employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 2,777 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 2,912. FY2025 alone accounts for 601 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 949 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.
4 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
At&t Services, Inc. is the largest filing name, but the full public footprint depends on combining the affiliated employer rows used for this page.
The peak year in the full-year series is FY2024, with 616 filings. FY2026 currently shows 135 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.
Workforce Context, Kept in Bounds
The Dallas Express reported that AT&T won a $146 million federal contract and then laid off American workers while hiring foreign labor, counting 388 H-1B approvals at the company between January 2024 and mid-2025 and 741 H-1B applications filed from April 2024, concentrated in Plano and Dallas. Axios had earlier reported the sharper edge of the pattern: laid-off AT&T workers training their own replacements before being sent job hunting. Dice's coverage of the layoffs noted the outsourcing wave continued even as H-1B denial rates fell to record lows. The filings on this page, Lead Software Engineering and Principal Member of Technical Staff roles in Texas, are the paper trail of that pipeline.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
AT&T has not confirmed role-for-role replacement, and the contract-then-layoffs sequence is reported correlation, not an adjudicated finding.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading job title is Lead Software Engineering; those roles show what part of the labor market the filings reach.
For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $168,612, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $131,965. That is a $36,647 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Plano, Tx leads the mapped worksite list with 874 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 227 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 181 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 |
|---|---|
| Lead Software Engineering | 149 |
| Principal Member Of Technical Staff | 146 |
| Senior Software Engineer | 137 |
| Senior Member Of Technical Staff | 94 |
| Lead System Engineering | 88 |
| Senior System Engineer | 79 |
| Lead Member Of Technical Staff | 64 |
| Senior Software Engineering | 53 |
- 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.
- Dallas Express: AT&T wins $146 million federal contract, then lays off Americans and hires foreign workers, 2025; Axios and Dice coverage of AT&T layoffs and outsourcing.
- 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.