Juniper Networks
JNPRThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Juniper Networks needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Juniper Networks, Inc. and Juniper Networks (US), Inc. employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 3,084 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 3,099. FY2025 alone accounts for 350 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,143 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.
1 total denial across all years (0.0% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Juniper Networks, 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 882 filings. FY2026 currently shows 15 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
Juniper Networks is classified as an H-1B dependent employer, unusual for a marquee Silicon Valley hardware firm, with aggregators tracking more than 2,500 filings at a median near $133,973. In February 2024 the company announced a $59 million restructuring plan cutting about 440 workers, most gone by the end of that March, while the sponsorship pipeline in Sunnyvale, Westford, Cupertino, and Herndon kept running. In 2025 the DOJ settled its antitrust suit and let HPE complete its $14 billion acquisition, meaning the sponsored bench changed owners; the workers' visas, as always, stayed chained to the employer of record.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
The 2024 cuts were attributed to restructuring, not visa hiring. H-1B dependence is a legal classification, not a finding of wrongdoing.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, Systems Software, 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 $151,983, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $151,525. That is a $458 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Sunnyvale, Ca leads the mapped worksite list with 2,198 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 528 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 68 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 | 1,041 |
| Software Engineer Staff | 365 |
| Technical Support Engineer | 250 |
| Asic Engineer | 123 |
| Software Engineer Senior Staff | 110 |
| Technical Support Engineer Staff | 74 |
| Software Engineer Sr. Staff | 62 |
| Resident Engineer Staff | 59 |
- 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.
- Network World and Light Reading coverage of Juniper's February 2024 restructuring; Ellis employer profile noting H-1B dependent classification; DOJ, June 30, 2025 antitrust settlement.
- 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.