ByteDance
PRIVATEByteDance's TikTok Growth Shows Up in FY2025
ByteDance is a newer name on this board, but its U.S. filing growth is already visible. This page combines ByteDance, TikTok, and related employer-name variants.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 7,808 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 8,193. FY2025 alone accounts for 2,672 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,980 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.
4 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
TikTok Is Part of the ByteDance Footprint
ByteDance Inc. leads the count, while TikTok and U.S. Data Security rows show why the public boundary cannot stop at one legal name.
The peak year in the full-year series is FY2025, with 2,672 filings. FY2026 currently shows 385 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.
AI Moderation Context, Technical Filing Growth
Reuters reporting covered TikTok cutting content-moderation roles while shifting more work toward AI moderation. That makes the high-growth FY2025 filing spike especially politically loaded.
TikTok's moderation-layoff reporting is not the same role set as the technical filings, but it frames why ByteDance's fast growth deserves attention.
Content moderation layoffs are not the same roles as the H-1B technical filings unless separately shown.
The Filings Follow a Platform Build-Out
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading title is Software Engineer; the job mix looks like a company scaling U.S. engineering capacity.
For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $211,732, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $163,629. That is a $48,103 spread over the legal wage floor.
San Jose and Mountain View Define the Map
San Jose, Ca leads with 3,367 rows, while Mountain View and Bellevue confirm the West Coast technical footprint.
The Green-Card Layer Is Emerging Fast
ByteDance has 973 PERM labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 374 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 Engineer | 686 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 241 |
| Data Scientist | 162 |
| Backend Software Engineer | 144 |
| Research Scientist | 142 |
| Product Manager | 138 |
| Software Development Engineer In Test | 98 |
| Data Engineer | 74 |
- 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-syndicated TikTok moderation layoff context, Oct. 2024.
- 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.