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Citibank

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USCIS INITIAL APPROVALS: 310Citigroup’s banking entity in the dataset, with H-1B filings concentrated in software and quantitative roles.
LCA Filings (FY2025)
1,568
Initial Approvals (FY2025)
310
Avg H-1B Salary
$161,673
BLS Market Median
$130,160

Citibank LCA Volume Across FY2020 to FY2025

Citibank records 8,802 total LCA filings across the six fiscal years in the dataset. Annual volume ranges from 1,059 in FY2020 to a peak of 1,896 in FY2023.

The pattern is volatile rather than linear: filings rose to a 2023 peak, dropped sharply in 2024, and then rebounded to 1,568 in FY2025. That leaves FY2025 up 48.1% versus FY2020, including a 0.0% year-over-year increase from FY2025.

Key finding
8,802 filings
FY2023 is the peak year at 1,896 LCAs, with FY2025 still above the FY2020 baseline.
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

Approval Trend with Important Dataset Caveats

The approval series includes 4,705 total approvals across the public-source years currently shown, peaking at 1,965 in FY2022.

Interpret trend direction carefully. The series has a year gap (there is no FY2024 row) and FY2025 appears as an initial-approval snapshot at 310 approvals without a matching denial count in this app data. Rates remain high in the denial-bearing rows, but the underlying volume coverage is not continuous year to year.

1,965
Peak annual approvals (FY2022)
310
Latest approvals row (FY2025)
Gap
FY coverage continuity check
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

Salary Trend and Prevailing Wage Gap

Citibank's average H-1B salary rises from $141,005 in FY2020 to $161,673 in FY2025, a 14.7% increase.

Prevailing wage also rises, from $112,242 to $135,458 (20.7%). The latest average salary is $26,215 above prevailing wage, a 19.4% premium.

Key finding
$26,215
FY2025 average H-1B salary premium over prevailing wage.

Job Title Concentration and Remaining Unknowns

Top job titles are concentrated. The largest title, Applications Development Tech Lead Analyst, accounts for 20.1% of the top-10 title total (574 of 2,857).

The top three titles together account for 52.7% (1,507). Occupation-level rows now use the normalized expansion taxonomy for Citibank.

Known legal entity in source
CITIBANK N A
Workforce share metric
Not used
Top 3 title concentration
52.7%
Top H-1B Occupations

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Top H-1B Job Titles
#Job TitleCount
1Applications Development Tech Lead Analyst574
2Applications Development Technical Lead Analyst479
3Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst454
4Model/Analysis/Validation Senior Analyst259
5Applications Development Senior Manager244
6Model/Analysis/Validation Officer212
7Quantitative Analyst205
8Engineering Lead Analyst159
9IT Business Lead Analyst140
10Credit Portfolio Officer131

Data Sources

  • DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data and MyVisaJobs employer profile summaries for Citibank filing and salary history
  • USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub for approval and denial history, including FY2025 ranking context
  • MyVisaJobs top job-title summaries for Citibank title concentration metrics
  • Citigroup SEC annual filings for workforce context where comparable headcount data is available
  • BLS OEWS software-developer median used in salary comparison