T-Mobile
TMUSThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
T-Mobile needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: T-Mobile USA, Inc. in the DOL records, a single-entity filing boundary.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 3,841 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 3,938. FY2025 alone accounts for 549 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,622 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.
3 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
T-mobile USA, 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 1,069 filings. FY2026 currently shows 97 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
T-Mobile drew public backlash in 2025 over reports that it was laying off American workers while opening a technology hub in India, committing a reported $81.5 million to H-1B salaries, and, per the accounts that circulated, having U.S. employees train their overseas replacements. Its DOL footprint is real either way: aggregators track 5,826 LCA filings since FY2015, with Software Developer the top title at 2,013 filings and Washington state carrying 3,375 of them around the Bellevue headquarters. In FY2025 the company filed 549 LCAs and had 459 of 466 petitions approved.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
The train-your-replacement accounts are social-media sourced and not confirmed by the company or adjudicated anywhere. The filing counts and wages here are from public DOL records.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading job title is Senior Engineer, Software; 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 $150,806, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $127,018. That is a $23,788 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Bellevue, Wa leads the mapped worksite list with 1,495 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 44 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 7 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 Engineer, Software | 431 |
| Engineer, Software | 213 |
| Principal Engineer, Software | 178 |
| Sr Engineer, Software | 170 |
| Senior Engineer, Systems Architecture | 116 |
| Sr. Engineer, Software | 98 |
| Engineer, Radio Frequency | 87 |
| Principal Engineer, Systems Architecture | 77 |
- 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.
- 2025 social-media backlash and EPI top-30 H-1B employer context; MyVisaJobs and Ellis employer profiles for T-Mobile USA, 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.