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CSCO
USCIS APPROVAL RATE: 97.8%A networking and enterprise technology company with sustained H-1B filings for engineering, cloud, security, and software roles.
LCA Filings (FY2025)
1,250
Total Approvals (FY2023)
831
Approval Rate
97.8%
Avg H-1B Salary
$147,638
BLS Market Median
$130,160

Cisco'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.

Key finding
10,470
Full-year LCA filings for Cisco employer-name variants from FY2020 through FY2025.
LCA Filings by Year

8 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.

H-1B Approval Rate Over Time

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.

Entity
Cisco Systems, Inc.
10,615
Entity
Cisco Systems Capital Corporation
10
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

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.

Key finding
1,250
FY2025 LCA filings for Cisco employer names in this profile.

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.

Top H-1B Occupations

San Jose Remains the Anchor

San Jose, Ca leads the mapped worksites with 3,691 rows, followed by Cisco's other engineering centers.

San Jose, Ca
3,691
Research Triangle Park, Nc
993
San Francisco, Ca
903
Richardson, Tx
633

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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Top Job Titles
TitleCount
Software Engineer1,598
Technical Consulting Engineer317
Technical Leader237
Consulting Engineer210
Software QA Engineer175
Data Engineer151
Software Engineering Technical Leader150
Engineering Product Manager146
Hardware Engineer125
Leader, Software Engineering125
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.
  • 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.