H-1B LCA Statistics for FY 2015

The US Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Foreign Labor certification (OFLC) has published statistics for the past year's H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3 applications. These statistics relate to prevailing wage requests received by DOL only, not the H-1B petitions filed with USCIS. Many of these LCA's would have been for H-1B extensions, not new cases, which is why the number of applications is much higher than the H-1B cap quota.

DOL received almost 600,000 applications and certified 567,000. Some of the applications were for multiple positions, so DOL certified applications for 1.19 million positions.


Top Occupations

Not surprisingly, the highest number of LCAs were filed for computer-related occupations - a whopping  71% of the total.  The next highest category was Accountants and Auditors, at 21% of the total.

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Top 10 Employers

The high number of LCAs filed for accounting professions might be because the top employer was Deloitte Consulting, which filed 118,000 applications. Of course, Deloitte also files in other occupations, including high tech professions. Deloitte & Touche is separately listed as #9 on the list of top 10 employers.

The top 10 employer list is heavily dominated by tech companies, e.g. Cognizant, Tata, Wipro, and others. 

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Top States

California topped the list of states at 17%. Next came Texas (9%), New York (8%) and New Jersey (7%).

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