Mastercard
MAThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Mastercard needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Mastercard International Incorporated plus Mastercard Technologies, LLC employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 3,746 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 3,817. FY2025 alone accounts for 742 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,651 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.
2 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Mastercard International Incorporated 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 FY2023, with 798 filings. FY2026 currently shows 71 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 mid-2026 Mastercard announced layoffs of roughly 4% of its global office workforce, telling staff that technology, especially AI, lets fewer people do the same work. The sponsored side of the house is anchored in O'Fallon, Missouri, the company's technical hub, where Senior and Lead Software Engineer roles file through both Mastercard International and a separate Mastercard Technologies entity at an average around $131,000, essentially at the BLS median. A heartland tech campus staffed through a visa program while the company publicly celebrates needing fewer humans is the 2026 version of the pattern this site tracks.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
The 2026 cuts were not publicly linked to visa hiring and no enforcement action against Mastercard appears in the records used here.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading job title is Senior 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 $131,417, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $116,080. That is a $15,337 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
O'fallon, Mo leads the mapped worksite list with 1,877 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 552 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 138 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 |
|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer | 613 |
| Lead Software Engineer | 398 |
| Lead Software Development Engineer | 195 |
| Senior Bizops Engineer | 185 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer | 169 |
| Lead Bizops Engineer | 164 |
| Principal Software Engineer | 95 |
| Manager, Product Management | 60 |
- 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.
- Mid-2026 Mastercard layoff announcement coverage citing AI-driven automation; DOL LCA disclosure rows for Mastercard entities.
- 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.