Charter Communications
CHTRThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Charter Communications needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Charter Communications, Inc. employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 3,983 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 4,163. FY2025 alone accounts for 746 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,668 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.
6 total denials across all years (0.2% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Charter Communications, 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 FY2023, with 896 filings. FY2026 currently shows 180 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
WARN-notice tracking attributes 6,225 laid-off workers across 51 notices to Charter Communications between 2004 and 2026, spanning 19 states. Against that backdrop the company kept a steady sponsored-engineering base filing from Greenwood Village and Englewood, Colorado, Maryland Heights, Missouri, and Charlotte, under graded titles like Principal Engineer I, Network Engineer III, and BI ETL Developer II. Employee-forum reports in 2026 described the company halting I-140 green-card processing for sponsored workers mid-stream, which, if accurate, is the lock-in mechanism running in reverse: years of accumulated waiting evaporating at an employer's discretion.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
The I-140 halt is an unverified social-media report. The WARN totals span two decades and are not linked to visa hiring in the public record.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading job title is Principal Engineer I; 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 $124,964, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $121,060. That is a $3,904 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Greenwood Village, Co leads the mapped worksite list with 1,611 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 535 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 203 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 |
|---|---|
| Principal Engineer I | 219 |
| Network Engineer III | 161 |
| Bi Etl Developer II | 148 |
| Software Engineer IV | 144 |
| Systems Engineer III | 143 |
| Systems Engineer IV | 112 |
| Senior Software Developer | 104 |
| Network Engineer II | 97 |
- 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.
- WARNtracker aggregation of Charter Communications WARN notices, retrieved July 2026; MyVisaJobs employer profile for Charter Communications.
- 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.