Expedia Group
EXPEThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Expedia Group needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Expedia, Inc. in the DOL records, a single-entity filing boundary.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 2,852 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 3,079. FY2025 alone accounts for 522 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,561 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.
2 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Expedia, 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 630 filings. FY2026 currently shows 227 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
Expedia's layoff rhythm is steady: about 3% of the workforce cut in April 2025, then 162 more Washington workers effective April 1, 2026 per Skift and state filings, on top of 1,427 workers across nine WARN notices since 2009. The sponsorship rhythm is steady too: 522 LCA filings in FY2025 and 227 in the FY2026 partial year, Software Development Engineer and Data Engineer roles in Seattle, Austin, and Chicago, with aggregators tracking 3,182 historical filings covering 7,826 positions. Neither rhythm interrupts the other, which is precisely the point this site keeps documenting.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
Expedia is not an H-1B dependent employer and no enforcement action appears in the records used here. The cuts were attributed to organizational simplification.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading job title is Software Development 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 $149,667, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $149,383. That is a $284 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Seattle, Wa leads the mapped worksite list with 1,993 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 810 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 179 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 Development Engineer | 1,048 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer | 190 |
| Data Engineer | 170 |
| Product Manager | 105 |
| Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering | 87 |
| Data Scientist, Analytics | 75 |
| Machine Learning Scientist | 63 |
| Program Manager | 56 |
- 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.
- Skift, January 26, 2026: Expedia cuts 162 Washington workers; WARNtracker aggregation 2009-2024; MyVisaJobs employer profile, 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.