UST Global
PRIVATEThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
UST Global needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: UST Global Inc. employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 5,089 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 5,203. FY2025 alone accounts for 871 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 2,031 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.
1 total denial across all years (0.0% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Ust Global 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 1,037 filings. FY2026 currently shows 114 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
UST Global is classified as an H-1B dependent employer. Its filings are the clearest client-site map in this batch: the top worksite cluster is Bentonville, Arkansas, Walmart's headquarters town, followed by Alpharetta, Atlanta, and Richmond. The titles are internal rate-card levels like Lead II - Software Engineering, Senior Systems Analyst, and Specialist I - Software Engineering, with aggregator-tracked median salaries for core roles running from $58,282 to $105,227, all below the BLS national median for software developers. The historical approval rate on its LCAs is about 97%.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
Worksite concentration shows where sponsored workers are placed, not who they replaced. H-1B dependence is a legal classification, not a finding of wrongdoing.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Computer Systems Analysts, and the leading job title is Lead II - Software Engineering; 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 $112,869, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $96,569. That is a $16,300 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Bentonville, Ar leads the mapped worksite list with 489 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 425 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 52 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 |
|---|---|
| Lead II - Software Engineering | 581 |
| Senior Systems Analyst | 523 |
| Specialist I - Software Engineering | 349 |
| Systems Analyst | 324 |
| Lead I - Software Engineering | 250 |
| Associate Software Architect | 165 |
| Lead II - Software Testing | 159 |
| Senior Test Analyst | 122 |
- 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.
- MyVisaJobs and H1BGrader employer profiles for UST Global Inc., retrieved July 2026; H-1B dependent employer classification per DOL LCA disclosure fields.
- 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.