Snap
SNAPThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Snap needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Snap Inc. employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 2,303 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 2,450. FY2025 alone accounts for 402 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,025 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.
5 total denials across all years (0.3% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Snap 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 FY2022, with 452 filings. FY2026 currently shows 147 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.
Workforce Context, Kept in Bounds
Snap's early-2025 layoff of roughly 16% of its workforce swept up sponsored workers along with everyone else; employee accounts on Blind described H-1B machine-learning engineers with years on the growth team suddenly holding an expiring status instead of a job. Snap's filings are leveled like a ladder, Software Engineer (3), (4), (5), concentrated in Santa Monica, Seattle, Palo Alto, and Mountain View at wages far above market. The Snap case is about the leash, not the wage: even at $170,000 averages, a sponsored worker who loses the badge has 60 days to find a new master or leave the country.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
The layoff share and H-1B impact are employee-reported; Snap did not publish a visa breakdown. No enforcement action appears in the records used here.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading job title is Software Engineer (4); 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 $169,789, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $168,743. That is a $1,046 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Santa Monica, Ca leads the mapped worksite list with 749 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 562 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 65 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 Engineer (4) | 681 |
| Software Engineer (3) | 236 |
| Software Engineer (5) | 227 |
| Machine Learning Engineer (4) | 158 |
| Machine Learning Engineer (5) | 78 |
| Data Scientist (4) | 55 |
| Machine Learning Engineer (3) | 39 |
| Software Engineer (2) | 29 |
- 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.
- Employee accounts via Blind, January-February 2025, on Snap's 16% reduction; MyVisaJobs employer profile for Snap Inc., retrieved July 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.