Ford Motor Company
FFord's Auto Business Now Looks Like a Software Sponsor
Ford is a legacy automaker, but its filing profile reflects mobility, software, product engineering, and vehicle technology. The boundary is Ford Motor Company and Ford Motor employer-name variants.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 5,058 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 5,222. FY2025 alone accounts for 1,030 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 2,112 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.
13 total denials across all years (0.3% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Ford Boundary Is About the Modern Automaker
Ford Motor Company leads the profile, while affiliated Ford names show how much of the auto business now runs through software and engineering labor.
The peak year in the full-year series is FY2025, with 1,030 filings. FY2026 currently shows 164 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.
Global Restructuring, U.S. Engineering Filings
Reuters reporting says Ford cut about 1,000 jobs in Germany in 2025 as part of European restructuring. The U.S. page uses that as global workforce context only.
Ford's European restructuring context should not be turned into a U.S. replacement claim. It belongs here as background for a company remaking its labor model.
Germany-specific cuts should not be converted into a U.S. H-1B replacement claim.
Vehicle Technology Is the Labor Signal
The leading occupation is Software Developers; the leading title is Software Engineer. That is the technical layer underneath modern vehicle programs.
For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $132,763, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $116,661. That is a $16,102 spread over the legal wage floor.
Dearborn Defines the Map
Dearborn, Mi leads with 2,452 rows, putting the automaker's home engineering market at the center of the profile.
Ford Also Uses the Long Sponsorship Path
Ford shows 426 PERM labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 9 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 | 399 |
| Data Scientist | 126 |
| Senior Software Engineer | 121 |
| Product Development Engineer | 110 |
| Data Engineer | 83 |
| Research Engineer | 71 |
| Product Manager | 55 |
| Embedded Software Engineer | 53 |
| Analytics Scientist | 50 |
| Full Stack Data Engineer | 50 |
- 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.
- Reuters Ford Germany restructuring context, Sept. 2025.
- 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.