SAP
SAPThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
SAP needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: SAP America, Inc., SAP Labs, LLC, and SAP Industries employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 3,631 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 3,721. FY2025 alone accounts for 526 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,698 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.
10 total denials across all years (0.3% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
SAP America, 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 841 filings. FY2026 currently shows 90 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
SAP's U.S. sponsorship runs through parallel entities: SAP America in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania files consultants and support engineers, while SAP Labs in Palo Alto files product developers, over 900 rows of them, under the single-word title Developer. WARN tracking attributes 911 laid-off workers to SAP America across seven notices between November 2001 and November 2025, concentrated in California and Texas, through every one of which the filing pipeline stayed open. Recent-year filings carry a median wage around $165,020, high on paper; the volume and two-entity structure are what earn SAP its page here.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
No H-1B enforcement action against SAP appears in the records used here, and its sponsored wages run above the BLS median.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Computer Systems Analysts, and the leading job title is Developer; 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 $158,278, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $130,877. That is a $27,401 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Newtown Square, Pa leads the mapped worksite list with 1,364 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 877 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 120 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 |
|---|---|
| Developer | 279 |
| Business Processes Principal Consultant | 245 |
| Senior Support Engineer | 240 |
| Senior Developer | 237 |
| Business Processes Senior Consultant | 208 |
| Expert Support Engineer | 175 |
| IT Technology Services Senior Specialist | 149 |
| Support Engineer | 106 |
- 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.
- WARNtracker aggregation for SAP America, November 2001 to November 2025; DOL LCA disclosure rows for SAP America and SAP Labs entities.
- 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.