VMware
AVGOThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
VMware needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: VMware, Inc., VMware Inc., and VMware LLC employer-name variants in the DOL records. VMware has been a Broadcom subsidiary since November 2023.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 5,762 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 5,777. FY2025 alone accounts for 140 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 2,797 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
Vmware, 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 2,131 filings. FY2026 currently shows 15 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
After Broadcom closed its $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023, layoff rounds began with separation dates on January 26, 2024 and continued through February, March, April, and May 2024. Employee accounts on Reddit and Blind reported that Broadcom told VMware engineers it would not renew their visas, with roughly 40% of VMware engineers said to hold visas or work authorization and expiration windows running from August to December 2024. Whatever the exact share, the mechanism is the point: when the sponsor stops signing, the worker's right to stay in the country evaporates with the job.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
The 40% visa-holder figure and non-renewal emails are employee-community reports, not company disclosures. The filing volumes and wages shown here are from public DOL records.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, Applications, and the leading job title is Member Of Technical Staff; 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 $192,722, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $189,517. That is a $3,205 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Palo Alto, Ca leads the mapped worksite list with 3,682 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 1,442 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 224 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 |
|---|---|
| Member Of Technical Staff | 1,540 |
| Senior Member Of Technical Staff | 672 |
| Staff Engineer | 403 |
| R&d Engineer Software | 191 |
| Sr. Member Of Technical Staff | 152 |
| Member Of Technical Staff 3 | 121 |
| R&d Engineer Software 4 | 78 |
| Staff Engineer 1 | 57 |
- 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.
- Broadcom-VMware layoff timeline via WARN filings and 2024 coverage; employee visa-non-renewal reports via Reddit r/vmware and Blind, February 2024.
- 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.