Lucid Motors
LCIDThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Lucid Motors needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Lucid USA, Inc. and Lucid Motors USA employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 2,496 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 2,572. FY2025 alone accounts for 653 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 736 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.
3 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Lucid USA, 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 FY2025, with 653 filings. FY2026 currently shows 76 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
In 2026 Lucid began cutting roughly 1,420 to 1,500 U.S. workers, about 18% of its U.S. workforce, with 705 positions at the Casa Grande, Arizona plant and 136 at the Newark, California headquarters, booking $32 million in severance against $158 million in annual savings. Now look at this page's worksite list: Newark, Casa Grande, Southfield, Tempe. The sponsored Sr. Manufacturing Engineer and Global Supply Manager roles file from the same facilities shedding American workers by the hundred. The company attributed the cuts to demand; the geography attributes the overlap.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
The public record does not show any specific laid-off role backfilled by a sponsored hire; the overlap shown is site-level, from WARN notices and DOL worksite fields.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Mechanical Engineers, and the leading job title is Sr. Global Supply 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 $152,168, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $148,535. That is a $3,633 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Newark, Ca leads the mapped worksite list with 2,049 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 550 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 182 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. Global Supply Manager | 21 |
| Sr. Manufacturing Engineer | 15 |
| Manufacturing Engineer | 14 |
| Plant Floor Systems Engineer | 12 |
| Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer | 12 |
| Manager, Software Engineering | 11 |
| Sr. Engineer, Exterior Trim | 11 |
| Material Flow Industrial Engineer | 11 |
- 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.
- ESG Dive and WARNtracker: Lucid Motors laying off 18% of U.S. workforce, 2026; Ellis employer profile for Lucid USA, 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.