CVS Health
CVSThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
CVS Health needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Aetna Resources LLC, Caremark LLC, and CVS Pharmacy, Inc. employer-name variants in the DOL records; a search for 'CVS Health' alone finds almost none of it.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 8,582 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 8,793. FY2025 alone accounts for 1,620 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 3,726 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.
11 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Aetna Resources LLC 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 1,804 filings. FY2026 currently shows 211 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
CVS Health is the entity-fragmentation case study of this batch: the filings run through Aetna Resources (2,525 rows), Caremark (2,355), and CVS Pharmacy (2,493 across spelling variants), so no single employer search shows the conglomerate's footprint. In mid-2024 the company announced 2,900 corporate job cuts, about 1% of headcount, including 632 Rhode Island workers via WARN notice, while its sponsored Data Scientist and Data Engineer roles kept filing from Woonsocket, New York, Irving, and Richardson. In 2025 CVS stopped sponsoring H-1B candidates residing outside the U.S., a decision reported as a response to the new $100,000 petition fee, which is as clear a statement as any that the program's economics, not its talent, drove the volume.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
The corporate cuts targeted non-frontline roles and were not publicly linked to visa hiring. Entity attribution here follows the DOL employer-name boundary, not CVS's internal org chart.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading job title is Data Scientist; 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 $144,370, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $127,478. That is a $16,892 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Woonsocket, Ri leads the mapped worksite list with 836 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 791 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 74 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 |
|---|---|
| Data Scientist | 341 |
| Data Engineer | 323 |
| Sr Software Development Engineer | 243 |
| Senior Data Engineer | 228 |
| Staff Software Development Engineer | 205 |
| Digital Dev Engineer III | 197 |
| Senior Data Scientist | 182 |
| Sr Data Engineer | 173 |
- 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.
- Healthcare Dive, 2024: CVS to cut 2,900 workers amid strategic review; AP News, 2025, on CVS pausing overseas H-1B sponsorship after the $100,000 fee; DOL LCA disclosure rows for the Aetna, Caremark, and CVS entities.
- 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.