Walmart

Top 10 Sponsor in the Current FY2025 Snapshot

Walmart is still ranked #10 in the FY2025 USCIS initial-approval snapshot, with 629 initial approvals. The FY2025 Hub row does not publish the denial count needed to compute an approval rate in this app data.

That count is not 4,145 LCAs minus denials, and it is not an approval-rate denominator. LCAs come from DOL and can cover different petition behavior, including extensions and multiple workers; initial approvals come from the USCIS petition snapshot.

Across FY2020-FY2025, Walmart logged 20,744 LCAs. Volume peaked in FY2025 at 4,145 and ended FY2025 at 4,145, which is 83.7% above FY2020. The partial FY2026 Q1: 804 LCAs row is kept in the raw data but excluded from this full-year comparison.

What Matters for U.S. Workers

I am not forcing a workforce-share chart onto Walmart. The company does not give us a clean year-by-year U.S. headcount series here, and a total-headcount ratio would blur the offshore piece instead of clarifying it.

The honest story is still loud: Walmart filed 4,145 LCAs in FY2025, won 629 initial USCIS approvals, and appears as a top-10 initial-approval sponsor. That is a large sponsored-labor pipeline for a company with a massive U.S. retail footprint, and the wage data stays comfortably above the market median.

Approvals rose from 1,522 in FY2020 to a peak of 2,667 in FY2022, then stepped down to 629 in FY2025. The approvals series reflects available fiscal years only.

Occupation and Title Mix Show Heavy Engineering Concentration

Walmart's FY2020-FY2025 salary premium over prevailing wage is consistently positive. The latest gap is $26,339 in FY2025, and the six-year average premium is $25,583.

Title concentration is high in engineering tracks: Software Engineer III alone is 38.4% of top-title volume, the top three titles are 79.6%, and software-engineer titles are 88.2% of the top-title set.