Bloomberg
PRIVATEThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Bloomberg needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Bloomberg L.P. plus Bloomberg Industry Group and Bloomberg Index Services employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 3,288 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 3,349. FY2025 alone accounts for 542 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 2,342 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.
2 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Bloomberg l.p. 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 FY2021, with 809 filings. FY2026 currently shows 61 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
Bloomberg occupies both sides of this story. Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Law have produced some of the definitive reporting on tech layoffs stranding H-1B workers, rolling cuts wrecking green-card timelines, and end-client data exposing visa middlemen. Meanwhile Bloomberg L.P. itself has filed more than 3,200 LCA rows in this dataset, Senior Software Engineer and Team Leader roles concentrated in New York and Princeton, at wages around $148,000. Nothing here is an allegation; it is an illustration that the sponsored-labor economy is so normalized that the company chronicling it runs one of the larger private benches in Manhattan.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
No enforcement action against Bloomberg appears in the records used here, and its wages run above the BLS median.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, Applications, and the leading job title is Senior Software Engineer; 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 $148,318, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $144,525. That is a $3,793 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
New York, Ny leads the mapped worksite list with 2,743 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 1,448 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 240 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 |
|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer | 1,188 |
| Software Engineer | 513 |
| Team Leader | 433 |
| Quantitative Analyst | 44 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 39 |
| Reporter | 37 |
| Engineering Manager | 24 |
| Product Analyst | 23 |
- 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.
- Bloomberg News, November 21, 2022: tech layoffs leave H-1B holders in limbo; Bloomberg Law reporting on rolling layoffs and green-card prospects; DOL LCA disclosure rows for Bloomberg L.P.
- 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.