Verizon
VZThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Verizon needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Verizon Data Services LLC, Verizon Corporate Resources Group, Verizon Connect, and Verizon Business Network Services employer-name variants in the DOL records.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 2,764 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 2,809. FY2025 alone accounts for 415 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,688 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.
12 total denials across all years (0.4% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Verizon Data Services LLC 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 657 filings. FY2026 currently shows 45 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
Verizon's own filings, concentrated in Irving, Basking Ridge, and Temple Terrace under abbreviated grade titles like Princ Engr-Software Devt, are only the visible layer. Data obtained through litigation against DHS showed Verizon at the top of the list of end-clients relying on visa middlemen, staffing firms that game the H-1B lottery with multiple registrations and then place workers at client sites. Verizon's response was that it 'requires suppliers to comply with all applicable laws.' That is the structural loophole this site keeps finding: the brand-name company gets the labor, the staffing firm holds the visa, and no single filing record shows the whole arrangement.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
End-client exposure is the suppliers' filing conduct, not Verizon's own; no enforcement action against Verizon appears in the records used here. Viral 15,000-layoff claims about Verizon are unverified and excluded.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, Applications, and the leading job title is Princ Engr-software Devt; 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 $154,628, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $140,165. That is a $14,463 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Irving, Tx leads the mapped worksite list with 919 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 570 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 122 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 |
|---|---|
| Princ Engr-software Devt | 97 |
| Sr Engr Cslt-software Devt | 68 |
| Princ Engr-full Stack | 65 |
| Sr Engr Cslt-full Stack | 64 |
| Sr Engr Cslt-systems Engrg | 56 |
| Princ Engr-systems Engrg | 49 |
| Princ Engr-data Science | 40 |
| Mts Consultant-systems Engineering | 32 |
- 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.
- Forbes and Bloomberg reporting on DHS lottery data obtained via litigation, identifying Verizon among top end-clients of multi-registration visa contractors.
- 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.