Uber
UBERUber's Marketplace Business Is a Software Filing Story
Uber's consumer brand is rides and delivery, but its filing profile is software, logistics, and marketplace infrastructure. The boundary is Uber Technologies and related Uber employer-name variants.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 6,156 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 6,286. FY2025 alone accounts for 946 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 2,805 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.
2 total denials across all years (0.0% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
Uber Technologies Carries the Profile
Uber Technologies, Inc. is the dominant row group, with Uber Freight adding a smaller but relevant logistics-technology layer.
The peak year in the full-year series is FY2021, with 1,384 filings. FY2026 currently shows 130 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.
Pandemic Cuts Are Historical Context
Business Insider covered Uber's May 2020 pandemic layoffs, citing company filings and CEO communications. That is historical workforce context.
Uber's 2020 layoff reporting is historical context, not a claim about later filings. The point is how a software-heavy visa pipeline persisted through the company's rebuild.
Pandemic layoffs do not establish any later visa-replacement pattern.
Marketplace Scale Requires Software Labor
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading title is Software Engineer; the filings point to the technical layer behind the marketplace.
For FY2025, the average H-1B wage in the filtered salary extract is $190,861, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $164,019. That is a $26,842 spread over the legal wage floor.
San Francisco Still Leads the Map
San Francisco, Ca leads with 2,755 rows, while Sunnyvale, Seattle, and New York show the broader engineering footprint.
Uber's Green-Card Layer Adds Continuity
Uber shows 1,726 PERM labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 552 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 | 1,083 |
| Senior Software Engineer | 1,030 |
| Staff Software Engineer | 246 |
| Sr Software Engineer | 240 |
| Engineering Manager | 172 |
| Data Scientist | 160 |
| Product Manager | 120 |
| Software Engineer II | 85 |
| Applied Scientist | 73 |
| Program Manager | 69 |
- 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.
- Business Insider / company filing context, May 2020.
- 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.