DoorDash
DASHThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
DoorDash needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: DoorDash, Inc. employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 3,184 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 3,263. FY2025 alone accounts for 544 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,210 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.
10 total denials across all years (0.3% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Doordash, 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 FY2021, with 729 filings. FY2026 currently shows 79 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
On November 30, 2022 DoorDash laid off 1,250 employees, and Business Insider ran a first-person account from a laid-off worker who had depended on the company for H-1B status and was, in their word, shocked. DoorDash pushed the official termination date for foreign-national staff to March 1, 2023 to give visa holders time to find a new sponsor before removal proceedings loomed; the gesture only underlines how absolute the employer's leverage is. The pipeline recovered fast: 514 LCA filings in 2025, overwhelmingly Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Sunnyvale.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
DoorDash's layoffs were cost-driven and not linked to replacement hiring in the public record. Its sponsored wages run well above the BLS median.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading job title is Software Engineer; 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 $173,255, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $153,704. That is a $19,551 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
San Francisco, Ca leads the mapped worksite list with 1,572 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 701 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 199 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 | 1,430 |
| Engineering Manager | 146 |
| Data Scientist, Analytics | 94 |
| Product Manager | 68 |
| Software Engineer, Backend | 68 |
| Data Scientist | 66 |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 37 |
| Senior Data Scientist | 34 |
- 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.
- Business Insider, December 2022: I was laid off from DoorDash and depended on it for my H-1B; Ellis employer profile for DoorDash, retrieved July 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.