eBay
EBAYThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
eBay needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: eBay Inc. plus eBay Payments, eBay Mobile Labs, and eBay Commerce employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 4,836 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 5,338. FY2025 alone accounts for 586 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 2,855 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.
6 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Ebay 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 FY2020, with 912 filings. FY2026 currently shows 502 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
In 2026 eBay filed WARN notices covering 639 U.S. employees while applying for 429 H-1B positions in the first half of fiscal 2026, 69 in the first quarter and 360 in the second. American Bazaar reported the overlap on June 16, 2026 and the company faced public scrutiny over it. This followed roughly 1,000 job cuts in early 2024, about 9% of the workforce, and another 800 announced worldwide in February 2026. eBay is also classified as an employer whose workforce is at least 15% H-1B by aggregator tracking. Layoffs and visa filings are both public records; put side by side, they answer the labor-shortage claim on their own.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
eBay has not confirmed role or location overlap between the WARN notices and the visa filings. The counts here come from WARN filings and public DOL records.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, Applications, and the leading job title is Software Engineer 3; 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 $189,828, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $167,961. That is a $21,867 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
San Jose, Ca leads the mapped worksite list with 3,448 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 1,102 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 215 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 3 | 955 |
| Mts 1, Software Engineer | 863 |
| Mts 2, Software Engineer | 440 |
| Software Engineer 2 | 416 |
| Sr. Mts, Software Engineer | 90 |
| Software Engineer 3, Quality | 83 |
| Mts 1, Software Engineer, Quality | 80 |
| Sr. Product Manager 1 - Technical | 73 |
- 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.
- American Bazaar, June 16, 2026: eBay layoffs coincide with new H-1B hiring; HR Katha and People Matters coverage of the 639 WARN layoffs vs 429 H-1B filings.
- 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.