McKinsey & Company
PRIVATEThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
McKinsey & Company needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 4,527 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 4,550. FY2025 alone accounts for 636 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 2,296 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 (0.0% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Mckinsey & Company, Inc. United States 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 1,185 filings. FY2026 currently shows 23 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
McKinsey's H-1B filings read like a partner-track brochure: Associate (Management Consultant), Engagement Manager (Management Consultant), Senior Business Analyst (Management Consultant). These are rungs, not occupations. The lock-in layer is unusually visible here: in FY2025 the firm filed 349 PERM labor certifications against 636 LCAs, a green-card pipeline that keeps sponsored consultants tethered through the years-long process. In 2025 McKinsey even sued the federal government for dragging its feet on a single H-1B approval before voluntarily dropping the case, a measure of how central sponsorship is to its staffing model.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
McKinsey is not an H-1B dependent employer and no enforcement action appears in the records used here. Wages in its filings run well above the BLS software-developer median.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Management Analysts, and the leading job title is Associate (Management Consultant); 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 $177,878, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $110,462. That is a $67,416 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
New York, Ny leads the mapped worksite list with 856 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 1,060 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 350 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 |
|---|---|
| Associate (Management Consultant) | 633 |
| Engagement Manager (Management Consultant) | 449 |
| Senior Business Analyst (Management Consultant) | 322 |
| Business Analyst (Management Consultant) | 260 |
| Associate Partner (Management Consultant) | 199 |
| Specialist | 189 |
| Expert | 104 |
| Associate - Implementation | 102 |
- 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.
- Bloomberg Law: McKinsey drops H-1B visa suit alleging government dragged feet, 2025; MyVisaJobs employer profile for McKinsey & Company, 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.