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Boston Consulting Group

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USCIS APPROVAL RATE: 98.2%The strategy consultancy with a 100% LCA approval record, sponsoring its own career ladder from Consultant to Project Leader.
LCA Filings (FY2025)
650
Total Approvals (FY2023)
108
Approval Rate
98.2%
Avg H-1B Salary
$178,695
BLS Market Median
$130,160

The Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name

Boston Consulting Group needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. and Boston Consulting Group, Inc. employer-name variants in the DOL records.

Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 3,878 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 3,947. FY2025 alone accounts for 650 LCA filings.

The USCIS series shown here totals 1,372 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.

Key finding
3,878
Full-year LCA filings from FY2020 through FY2025 after combining the employer names used for this page.
LCA Filings by Year

1 total denial across all years (0.0% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.

H-1B Approval Rate Over Time

The Employer Boundary Drives the Count

The Boston Consulting Group, 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 FY2021, with 876 filings. FY2026 currently shows 69 rows and should be read as a partial-year value, not as a final decline.

Entity
The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.
3,108
Entity
Boston Consulting Group, Inc.
839
Workforce Share Not Used
Metric intentionally suppressed

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.

Avg H-1B Salary vs BLS Market Rate

Workforce Context, Kept in Bounds

BCG's public filing record is a clean readout of how the program treats elite employers: a 100% approval rate on its LCA filings, with FY2025 volume of 650 LCAs plus 223 green-card labor certifications. The titles are Consultant, Project Leader, and Associate, the firm's own promotion ladder submitted as specialty occupations. BCG pays well above market, which makes it the control group for this investigation: even where wage arbitrage is absent, the program functions as a frictionless private hiring channel with a federal rubber stamp and a green-card leash attached.

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 BCG appears in the records used here, and its sponsored wages exceed the BLS software-developer median.

Key finding
650
FY2025 LCA filings after applying the employer-name boundary used for this page.

The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix

The leading occupation is Management Analysts, and the leading job title is Consultant; 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 $178,695, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $123,677. That is a $55,018 spread over the legal wage floor.

Top H-1B Occupations

Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market

New York, Ny leads the mapped worksite list with 735 rows for this employer boundary.

New York, Ny
735
Boston, Ma
559
Chicago, Il
489
San Francisco, Ca
312

Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie

The PERM layer adds 896 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 223 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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Top Job Titles
TitleCount
Consultant1,526
Project Leader642
Associate339
Data Scientist196
Senior Data Scientist106
Principal100
AI Software Engineer48
Senior Associate35
Data Sources
  • 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.
  • MyVisaJobs employer profile for Boston Consulting Group, retrieved July 2026; DOL LCA disclosure certification rates.
  • 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.