Micron Technology
MUThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Micron Technology needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Micron Technology, Inc. plus Micron Semiconductor Products, Micron Technology Utah, and the Idaho Triton manufacturing entity in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 3,296 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 3,433. FY2025 alone accounts for 649 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,490 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.
2 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Micron Technology, 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 FY2022, with 662 filings. FY2026 currently shows 137 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
The Justice Department secured a settlement with Micron Technology, announced in press release No. 23-445, resolving a claim that the company violated the Immigration and Nationality Act by discriminating against a U.S. citizen worker: it failed to hire him and gave the position to a temporary visa worker instead. Micron paid a civil penalty to the United States and offered $85,000 in back pay to the worker, alongside compliance commitments. This is the thesis of this site reduced to a single adjudicated case: a qualified American, a cheaper visa alternative, and a federal agency that only intervened because the worker complained. Micron's filing base runs through Boise, San Jose, Manassas, and Longmont in semiconductor design and process roles.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
The settlement resolved one worker's claim and Micron did not admit broader wrongdoing. Filing volumes and wages here are from public DOL records.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Electrical Engineers, and the leading job title is Semiconductor Design 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 $136,537, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $110,502. That is a $26,035 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Boise, Id leads the mapped worksite list with 1,928 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 646 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 78 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 |
|---|---|
| Semiconductor Design Engineer | 58 |
| Semiconductor Process Engineer | 57 |
| Supply Chain Engineer | 48 |
| Equipment Engineer | 47 |
| Process Engineer | 42 |
| Design Engineer | 39 |
| IT Software Engineer | 34 |
| Senior Design Engineer | 33 |
- 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.
- DOJ press release No. 23-445: Justice Department secures agreement with Micron Technology to resolve claim of immigration-related employment discrimination (justice.gov).
- 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.