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The method

How to read the data

Where the numbers come from, what each word on an employer means, and what the filings can and can’t tell you.

What is counted

One LCA (Form ETA-9035) is one job application certified by the Department of Labor before an H-1B petition is filed with USCIS — it is not an approved visa. Counts are LCA cases in the month of their first DOL decision. Employer type is tagged from the LCA form's own signals (third-party worksites, the H-1B-dependent declaration, NAICS, job titles) and checked against the web for the largest filers; the rest carry the heuristic tag. Information, not legal or career advice.

New hires, extensions and transfers

Each LCA declares its worker counts by basis (Form ETA-9035, section B.1): new employment (a new H-1B job), continued employment (an extension with the same employer), change of employer (a transfer from another H-1B employer), plus change in previous employment, concurrent employment and amended petitions. An LCA is classified by its largest basis count.

An employer with many extensions and few new hires is holding on to the staff it has, not hiring. The bar under every employer shows that mix at a glance.

The window

“Last 36 months” means LCA decisions dated 2023-07-01 to 2026-06-30, counted month by month: Jul 2023 – Jun 2024 · Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 · Jul 2025 – Jun 2026. The Department of Labor has published decisions only through the end of that window, so the latest months are the newest available, not the newest that exist. “2026” means January through June 2026.

The Kansas City metro

The Kansas City, MO–KS Metropolitan Statistical Area (OMB CBSA 28140): Jackson, Clay, Platte, Cass, Ray, Clinton, Caldwell, Lafayette and Bates counties in Missouri; Johnson, Wyandotte, Leavenworth, Miami and Linn counties in Kansas. An employer is on the Kansas City list when an LCA's primary worksite is in the metro, wherever the employer is headquartered.

Direct employer or consultancy

A firm is tagged a consultancy or staffing firm when its business is placing workers at client companies — read from the LCA form's own signals: the share of worksites at a third-party client, the H-1B-dependent declaration, the industry code (NAICS 5415 or 5613), generic job titles, and a small firm spread over many metros.

Consultancies split into global ones (multinational IT services corporations such as TCS, Infosys, Accenture, Capgemini and Cognizant) and local ones (US-based regional consultancies and staffing firms). The largest filers were checked against the web and carry a check mark; the rest carry the tag their filings suggest. Corrections are welcome.

Cap-exempt employers

Institutions of higher education, their affiliated nonprofit entities, and nonprofit or government research organizations are exempt from the annual H-1B cap, so they can file petitions at any time of year. Many of them appear under “University / research” — but not every school or institute in that group is cap-exempt, so confirm with the employer.

The signals on each employer

Hiring in 2026:
at least one new-hire LCA decided January–June 2026.
Takes transfers:
at least 3 transfer LCAs, making up 15% or more of its filings in the view you are looking at.
Mostly extensions:
10 or more LCAs, 60% or more of them extensions, and no new-hire LCA in 2026.
Willful-violator flag:
at least one of its LCAs marks the employer a willful violator — found by the Department of Labor to have willfully broken H-1B rules.

How employers are grouped

Employers are grouped by DOL employer name and federal tax ID (FEIN); clusters that share a tax ID and nearly identical names are merged, and the most frequent spelling is shown. A parent that files under several legal entities (Amazon, Deloitte, Kiewit) appears as separate employers.

Sources

This is information, not legal or career advice. For your own situation, talk to an immigration attorney.

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