Netflix
NFLXThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Netflix needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Netflix, Inc. plus Netflix Global and Netflix Animation employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 2,083 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 2,151. FY2025 alone accounts for 338 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 730 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
Netflix, 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 FY2021, with 547 filings. FY2026 currently shows 68 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
Netflix is this site's control group. Its sponsored average wage in the FY2025 extract is $225,858, nearly double the BLS software-developer median, its volumes are modest for its size, and in September 2025 co-founder Reed Hastings publicly endorsed the Trump administration's $100,000 H-1B fee, telling the New York Times the tax would push the program back toward genuinely scarce talent. That is the tell: employers who actually pay top of market for rare skills can afford the fee and said so. The ones who fought it hardest are the ones whose business model is the wage gap.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
Netflix's high wages and modest volumes cut against the arbitrage pattern; it is included as contrast. No enforcement action 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 $225,858, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $215,355. That is a $10,503 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Los Gatos, Ca leads the mapped worksite list with 1,551 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 412 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 65 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 | 505 |
| Software Engineer | 455 |
| Data Engineer | 51 |
| Senior Data Engineer | 49 |
| Senior Data Scientist | 36 |
| Engineering Manager | 35 |
| Data Scientist | 33 |
| Research Scientist | 26 |
- 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.
- New York Times, September 23, 2025: tech leaders on the $100,000 H-1B fee, including Reed Hastings' endorsement; DOL LCA disclosure wage fields.
- 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.