Counts are Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) employers filed with the US Department of Labor. Certified means DOL accepted the LCA, the step before a visa petition: it is not a visa or a hire. Wages are what the employer wrote on it. Data sources
By year
Fiscal year
Certified
Certified, then withdrawn
Withdrawn
Denied
FY2026October 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026
218
68
4
0
FY2025October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025
336
18
11
0
Every decision, by when it was made. From the US Department of Labor’s LCA disclosure files for FY2025 and FY2026, all listed in Data sources.
Wages
25th percentile
$140,983
Median
$172,931
75th percentile
$199,534
A year, from 546 certified full-time filings, the lower end of the wage offered.
Job titles
Machine Learning Engineer IIData Scientists · median $166,43282
Software Engineer IISoftware Developers · median $172,93178
Sr. Software EngineerSoftware Developers · median $199,53478
Sr. Machine Learning EngineerSoftware Developers · median $198,22465
Data Scientist IIData Scientists · median $148,69926
Sr. Data ScientistData Scientists · median $169,54123
Machine Learning Engineer IData Scientists · median $148,97014
Software Engineer ISoftware Developers · median $141,78314
Staff Machine Learning EngineerSoftware Developers · median $199,53413
Machine Learning EngineerSoftware Developers · median $136,47912
Certified filings by job title, with the occupation (SOC) and the median wage.