KPMG
PRIVATEThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
KPMG needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: KPMG LLP in the DOL records, effectively a single-entity filing boundary.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 3,713 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 3,759. FY2025 alone accounts for 417 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,659 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.
6 total denials across all years (0.2% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Kpmg LLP 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 985 filings. FY2026 currently shows 46 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
KPMG joins Deloitte, EY, and PwC to complete the Big Four on this site, and the pattern holds. In early 2025 the firm cut roughly 400 U.S. advisory employees, about 4% of that workforce, in AI-driven restructuring. Its visa filings kept clearing frictionlessly: 379 applications in 2025 with 372 certified and zero denied. The filed titles are Manager, Senior Associate, and Associate, the accounting ladder rather than any specialty occupation, and the aggregate median sponsored salary of $99,000 sits more than $30,000 under the BLS software-developer median.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
The 2025 layoffs were attributed to demand and AI restructuring, not visa hiring, and no enforcement action against KPMG appears in the records used here.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Accountants And Auditors, and the leading job title is Manager; 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 $159,848, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $123,504. That is a $36,344 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
New York, Ny leads the mapped worksite list with 763 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 537 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 49 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 |
|---|---|
| Manager | 1,278 |
| Senior Associate | 1,102 |
| Associate | 387 |
| Director | 373 |
| Senior Manager | 247 |
| Associate Director | 93 |
| Lead Specialist | 85 |
| Senior Specialist | 42 |
- 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.
- Industry reporting on KPMG's early-2025 U.S. advisory layoffs; MyVisaJobs and Ellis employer profiles for KPMG LLP, 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.