Cisco
CSCOCisco's Network Business Still Files at Scale
Cisco's footprint is cleaner than many roll-ups, but the scale is still meaningful. The boundary is Cisco Systems and related Cisco employer-name variants.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 10,470 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 10,625. FY2025 alone accounts for 1,250 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 7,225 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.
8 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
Cisco Systems Is the Filing Center
Cisco Systems, Inc. carries almost the whole count, so this page is less about entity complexity and more about the size of Cisco's technical pipeline.
The peak year in the full-year series is FY2021, with 2,897 filings. FY2026 currently shows 155 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.
Restructuring and Reinvestment Sit Together
Reuters-linked reporting says Cisco announced another workforce reduction while reallocating investment toward AI, security, and networking priorities.
Cisco's restructuring reports matter because they describe a company shifting investment while continuing to file for technical roles.
Cisco's restructuring rationale should be cited as reported; do not infer visa replacement.
Networking Now Means Software Labor
The leading occupation is Software Developers, Systems Software, and the leading title is Software Engineer; the profile is software, security, cloud, and networking labor.
For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $147,638, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $137,135. That is a $10,503 spread over the legal wage floor.
San Jose Remains the Anchor
San Jose, Ca leads the mapped worksites with 3,691 rows, followed by Cisco's other engineering centers.
Cisco Also Runs a Permanent Sponsorship Channel
Cisco adds 2,741 PERM labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 381 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 | 1,598 |
| Technical Consulting Engineer | 317 |
| Technical Leader | 237 |
| Consulting Engineer | 210 |
| Software QA Engineer | 175 |
| Data Engineer | 151 |
| Software Engineering Technical Leader | 150 |
| Engineering Product Manager | 146 |
| Hardware Engineer | 125 |
| Leader, Software Engineering | 125 |
- 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-linked Cisco restructuring context, May 2026.
- 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.