PwC
PRIVATEPwC's Advisory Business Carries the Volume
PwC's public footprint spans advisory, tax, consulting, and partnership names. The page boundary is PricewaterhouseCoopers, PwC, PwC Advisory Services, and related employer-name variants.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 11,462 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 11,664. FY2025 alone accounts for 1,512 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 6,860 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.
7 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
Advisory Rows Drive the Profile
Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services LLC is the largest filer, which makes the advisory business central to the PwC visa story.
The peak year in the full-year series is FY2021, with 2,727 filings. FY2026 currently shows 202 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.
Professional-Services Cuts Need Filing Context
2025 reporting says PwC cut about 1,500 U.S. employees, roughly 2% of U.S. headcount. That is context for a large professional-services visa profile.
PwC's reported U.S. reductions are context, not causation; the filing profile shows how much labor demand still runs through visa channels.
The reported PwC cuts are not evidence that the H-1B filings caused the reductions.
The Roles Are Consulting Labor in Practice
The leading occupation is Accountants and Auditors; the leading title is Senior Associate. Those labels describe the labor behind client delivery.
For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $175,127, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $132,939. That is a $42,188 spread over the legal wage floor.
PwC's Footprint Starts in Major Business Markets
New York, Ny leads with 2,503 rows, followed by the large consulting and financial markets where PwC sells work.
PwC's Green-Card Layer Adds Stickiness
PwC has 1,838 PERM labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 319 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 Associate | 2,438 |
| Manager | 2,414 |
| Senior Manager | 1,242 |
| Advisory Senior Associate | 1,101 |
| Associate | 777 |
| Advisory Manager | 724 |
| Director | 469 |
| Assurance Senior Associate | 431 |
| Advisory Senior Manager | 308 |
| Advisory Associate | 278 |
- 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.
- CFO Dive / Reuters-linked PwC U.S. layoff context, 2025.
- 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.