NVIDIA
NVDARanked #20 With Rapid LCA Volume Growth
NVIDIA is ranked #20 in the FY2025 USCIS Hub initial-approval context, with 343 initial approvals for NVIDIA CORPORATION.
Across the tracked LCA series, filings rose from 548 in 2020 to 1,905 in 2025, a 247.6% increase. The volume peak is 1,905 filings in 2025, which establishes NVIDIA's highest observed filing scale in this dataset.
16 total denials across all years (0.2% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
Approvals Stayed High-Rate but Lower-Volume
Initial approvals climbed from 773 in 2020 to a peak of 1,132 in 2022, then fell to 343 in 2025. That places the latest count 69.7% below NVIDIA's record approval year in this series.
Approval rates stayed exceptionally high in the denial-bearing rows: 99.1%, 99.3%, 99.2%, and 99.7% from FY2020 through FY2023. The FY2025 row is a USCIS Hub initial-approval count, not a rate-bearing total-decision row.
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.
Wage Premium and Role Concentration
NVIDIA's average H-1B salary increased from $154,518 in 2020 to $186,719 in 2025. In the latest year, average pay is $7,238 above prevailing wage, a 3.9% premium.
The largest single title is Software Engineer with 1,539 cases, or 41.7% of the top-title sample. The top two titles account for 62.2%, and the top five reach 81.3%, showing concentration in software and hardware engineering tracks.
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| # | Job Title | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Software Engineer | 1,539 |
| 2 | Hardware Engineer, Electronics | 754 |
| 3 | Engineer Senior Systems Software | 254 |
| 4 | Research Scientist | 254 |
| 5 | Architect | 197 |
| 6 | Verification Engineer | 166 |
| 7 | Program Manager | 164 |
| 8 | Product Manager | 150 |
| 9 | ASIC Engineer | 109 |
| 10 | Physical Design Engineer | 101 |
Data Sources
- DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data for NVIDIA filing, wage, occupation, and job-title records
- USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub for approval and denial history, including FY2025 ranking context
- MyVisaJobs NVIDIA employer profile for supplemental filing, approval, salary, and title history
- NVIDIA SEC annual filings for workforce context where comparable headcount data is available
- BLS OEWS software-developer median used in salary comparison