The Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
LinkedIn needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: LinkedIn Corporation, with a trivial number of rows under LinkedIn Tech Inc., in the DOL records. LinkedIn is a Microsoft subsidiary and its filings are separate from Microsoft's own profile on this site.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 6,927 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 7,749. FY2025 alone accounts for 904 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 3,516 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.
14 total denials across all years (0.2% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Linkedin Corporation 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 1,598 filings. FY2026 currently shows 822 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
LinkedIn cut roles through 2025 and 2026 as it restructured around AI, and laid-off H-1B employees at LinkedIn, Meta, and Amazon were left racing a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsor before losing status. That is the program's lock-in mechanism working exactly as designed: the employer holds the visa, so the employer holds the worker. LinkedIn's own filing base kept running through the cuts, concentrated in Sr Software Engineer and Staff Software Engineer titles in Sunnyvale, Mountain View, San Francisco, and New York.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
LinkedIn's layoffs are part of sector-wide AI restructuring and the public record does not show which cut roles, if any, corresponded to sponsored hires. The filing data here is from public DOL records.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading job title is Sr 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 $177,711, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $172,651. That is a $5,060 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Sunnyvale, Ca leads the mapped worksite list with 5,186 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 2,403 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 423 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 |
|---|---|
| Sr Software Engineer | 1,392 |
| Software Engineer | 867 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure | 524 |
| Staff Software Engineer | 501 |
| Software Engineer, Machine Learning | 323 |
| Sr. Software Engineer, Machine Learning | 283 |
| Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure | 282 |
| Manager, Software Engineering | 241 |
- 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.
- NDTV and LinkedIn News coverage of 2025-2026 tech layoffs affecting H-1B holders and the 60-day grace period, 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.