Cummins
CMIThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Cummins needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Cummins Inc. plus Cummins Emission Solutions and Cummins Filtration employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 5,599 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 5,999. FY2025 alone accounts for 959 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 2,665 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.
23 total denials across all years (0.4% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Cummins 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 FY2022, with 1,078 filings. FY2026 currently shows 400 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.
Workforce Context, Kept in Bounds
Cummins runs one of the largest heartland H-1B programs in this investigation: aggregators track more than 9,300 LCA filings since FY2015 across 30 states, centered on Columbus, Seymour, and Indianapolis, Indiana. The number that matters is the wage: a median sponsored salary of $80,642, nearly $50,000 under the BLS national median for software developers and low even for manufacturing engineering. The roles, Electronic Systems Product Specialist and Product Engineer, are the core of the modern engine business. When a Fortune 150 manufacturer staffs its home-state engineering bench at that price through a federal visa program, the wage floor is not protecting anyone.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
Cummins is not an H-1B dependent employer and no enforcement action appears in the records used here. Manufacturing-sector prevailing wages differ from software benchmarks; the comparison is contextual.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Mechanical Engineers, and the leading job title is Electronic Systems Product Specialist; 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 $102,329, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $95,280. That is a $7,049 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Columbus, In leads the mapped worksite list with 3,578 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 1,052 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 226 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 |
|---|---|
| Electronic Systems Product Specialist | 136 |
| Electronic Systems Technical Specialist | 132 |
| Product Engineer | 132 |
| Product Engineering Specialist | 112 |
| Thermal And Fluid Systems Technical Specialist | 107 |
| IT Analyst - Senior | 105 |
| Electronic Systems Product Engineer | 97 |
| Es Product Specialist | 90 |
- 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.
- MyVisaJobs and Ellis employer profiles for Cummins Inc., retrieved July 2026; DOL LCA disclosure wage fields.
- 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.