Wayfair
WThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Wayfair needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Wayfair LLC in the DOL records, a single-entity filing boundary.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 2,541 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 2,566. FY2025 alone accounts for 214 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,802 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
Wayfair 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 783 filings. FY2026 currently shows 25 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
Wayfair's visa profile is a case of quiet dependence: aggregators track 2,353 LCA filings covering 4,572 positions across 16 states, at a median sponsored salary of $125,165, slightly under the BLS national median for software developers. The filings are Boston-centered, with satellite engineering in Mountain View and Austin and a logistics node in Hebron, Kentucky. Wayfair spent 2023 and 2024 in repeated public layoff rounds while this filing base persisted; a company that cut thousands of jobs kept a four-figure sponsored position count on the books throughout.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
Wayfair's layoffs were publicly attributed to overexpansion, and no H-1B enforcement action appears in the records used here. A 2026 Massachusetts retaliation verdict against the company was unrelated to visas and is excluded.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, Applications, and the leading job title is Senior Software Engineer; 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 $166,049, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $139,350. That is a $26,699 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Boston, Ma leads the mapped worksite list with 2,319 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 821 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 73 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 |
|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer | 305 |
| Software Engineer II | 249 |
| Senior Analyst | 125 |
| Software Engineer | 120 |
| Senior Engineer | 105 |
| Senior Manager | 82 |
| Manager | 81 |
| Software Engineer III | 53 |
- 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.
- Ellis and MyVisaJobs employer profiles for Wayfair LLC, retrieved July 2026; DOL LCA disclosure rows.
- 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.