Workday
WDAYThe Filing Footprint Is Bigger Than One Legal Name
Workday needs to be read through its public employer-name boundary: Workday, Inc. in the DOL records, a single-entity filing boundary.
Across FY2020 through FY2025, those rows add up to 2,226 Labor Condition Applications. Including the FY2026 partial-year rows, the total reaches 2,275. FY2025 alone accounts for 332 LCA filings.
The USCIS series shown here totals 1,221 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.
2 total denials across all years (0.1% of filings) - too small to display on this chart.
The Employer Boundary Drives the Count
Workday, 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 FY2022, with 506 filings. FY2026 currently shows 49 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
Workday sells the software that HR departments use to run reductions in force, and it maintains a sponsored engineering bench of its own: about 2,300 LCA rows in this dataset, Software Development Engineer roles laddered from Sr Associate to Sr, filed from Pleasanton, Atlanta, Palo Alto, and Boulder at wages around $157,000. There is no scandal in Workday's public record; there is a fully normalized dependency. When even the company that builds the layoff tooling staffs through the visa channel, the program has stopped being an exception mechanism and become default infrastructure for the American tech labor market.
The public workforce story belongs next to the filing volume, but it does not turn every LCA into a replacement claim.
No enforcement action against Workday appears in the records used here, and its wages run above the BLS median.
The Labor-Market Signal Is in the Job Mix
The leading occupation is Software Developers, and the leading job title is Software Development 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 $156,863, compared with an average prevailing-wage benchmark of $148,129. That is a $8,734 spread over the legal wage floor.
Where the Filings Reach the U.S. Labor Market
Pleasanton, Ca leads the mapped worksite list with 1,496 rows for this employer boundary.
Green Cards Add the Long-Term Tie
The PERM layer adds 693 labor-certification cases from FY2020 through FY2025, including 133 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 |
|---|---|
| Software Development Engineer | 133 |
| Sr Software Development Engineer | 107 |
| Sr Associate Software Development Engineer | 40 |
| Software Application Engineer | 31 |
| Sr Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) | 30 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer | 29 |
| Manager, Software Development Engineering | 21 |
| Senior Software Application Engineer | 19 |
- 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.
- DOL LCA disclosure rows for Workday, Inc.; Ellis and MyVisaJobs employer profiles, retrieved July 2026.
- 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.