Qualcomm
QCOMQualcomm's Engineering Pipeline Is Deep and Localized
Qualcomm's profile is not a broad white-collar roll-up. It is an engineering-heavy semiconductor and wireless boundary: Qualcomm Technologies, Qualcomm Inc., and related Qualcomm employer-name variants.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 15,496 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 16,321. FY2025 alone accounts for 2,249 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 5,756 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.
10 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Qualcomm Variants Point to One Engineering Base
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is the largest name, while Atheros, Innovation Center, and Incorporated rows fill out the same technical employer footprint.
The peak year in the full-year series is FY2023, with 3,718 filings. FY2026 currently shows 825 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.
San Diego Layoffs Make the Profile Concrete
Local reporting covered Qualcomm layoffs in San Diego tied to a cost-reduction plan. The story is useful because the filing rows also show a concentrated engineering visa profile.
Qualcomm's local layoff reporting matters because the worksite and role data point to the same concentrated engineering market.
Local layoff reporting is context only; this is not a one-for-one worker-swap claim.
Wireless Engineering Is the Core Signal
The leading occupation is Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, and the leading title is Senior Software Engineer; this is specialized technical labor at scale.
For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $142,309, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $138,740. That is a $3,569 spread over the legal wage floor.
San Diego Carries the Footprint
San Diego, Ca leads with 10,418 rows, making the local labor-market context unusually visible.
Qualcomm's Green-Card Layer Is Smaller but Real
Qualcomm adds 1,638 PERM labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 31 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 | 751 |
| Software Engineer | 655 |
| Senior Asics Engineer | 622 |
| Staff Software Engineer | 590 |
| Staff Asics Engineer | 493 |
| Asics Engineer | 489 |
| Senior Staff Asics Engineer | 330 |
| Senior Systems Test Engineer | 317 |
- 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.
- 10News/KGTV Qualcomm layoff reporting, 2023.
- 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.