Salesforce
CRMSalesforce's Acquisitions Expand the Visa Footprint
Salesforce is not just the original CRM employer name in these records. This profile also captures platform acquisitions and variants: Salesforce, Salesforce.com, Slack Technologies, Tableau Software, MuleSoft, and related employer-name variants.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 14,907 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 15,234. FY2025 alone accounts for 1,913 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 7,048 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.
9 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Salesforce.com Split Still Matters
Salesforce, Inc. is the largest row group, but Salesforce.com, Slack, Tableau, and MuleSoft-style names explain why the employer boundary matters.
The peak year in the full-year series is FY2021, with 3,392 filings. FY2026 currently shows 327 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.
Platform Cuts Beside Platform Hiring
Reuters/Business Insider reporting says Salesforce cut fewer than 1,000 roles in 2026. That gives labor context to a large software-heavy visa profile.
Salesforce's layoff context is limited in size, but it sits beside a software-heavy filing profile that remains large enough to warrant scrutiny.
The reported reduction is limited in size and does not establish immigration causation.
The Filing Mix Is Platform Engineering
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading title is Software Engineering Smts; the filings point straight at software and platform labor.
For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $203,914, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $157,843. That is a $46,071 spread over the legal wage floor.
San Francisco Still Anchors the Profile
San Francisco, Ca leads with 6,167 rows, with Bellevue, Dallas, and Seattle showing the acquired-platform footprint.
The Green-Card Layer Is Substantial
Salesforce records 3,026 PERM labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 814 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 |
|---|---|
| Software Engineering Smts | 1,945 |
| Software Engineering Lmts | 1,224 |
| Software Engineering Mts | 911 |
| Software Engineer | 538 |
| Technical Architect | 473 |
| Software Engineering Pmts | 373 |
| Senior Software Engineer | 332 |
| Senior Technical Architect | 276 |
| Mts Software Engineer | 193 |
| Senior Technical Consultant | 159 |
- 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.
- Reuters / Business Insider Salesforce layoff context, Feb. 2026.
- 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.