The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Filing address: Memphis, TNworksites: TN, TX

Change-of-employer denials
1 of 18
USCIS · FY2021–FY2025 combined · n = 18 decided
17 approved, 1 denied. Too few for a rate.
Median filed wage
$60,064
DOL LCA · FY2025 · n = 80 certified
Green-card (PERM) filings
23
DOL PERM · FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3)
Layoff notices (WARN)
Not covered for TN, TX
State WARN · none of these states loaded
Missing data, not a clean record.

Reported wages are what the employer filed with the Department of Labor — not actual take-home pay. Denials reflect individual case outcomes — not whether an employer sponsors. One LCA is not one job.

If this company files an H-1B for you, how often is it denied?

USCIS · FY2021–FY2025 combined

Not to be confused with LCA outcomes. An LCA is a Department of Labor filing that precedes the visa petition; nearly every employer's LCAs are certified at 99–100%, which tells you almost nothing about petition outcomes. The figures on this page come from USCIS petition decisions instead. The two are often reported interchangeably; they measure different things. Why these are two different datasets.

Across FY2021–FY2025 combined, USCIS decided 18 change-of-employer petitions filed by this employer: 17 approved, 1 denied. That is fewer than 20, which is too few to state a denial rate, so we show the counts instead.

The table below splits petitions by filing type, over FY2021–FY2025 combined. The types do not face the same odds — find the row that matches your own situation.

All figures in this table are FY2021–FY2025 combined totals.
Filing type	Approved	Denied	n	Denied share
Change of employerYou move from another company to this one	17	1	18	18 decisions
New employmentFirst-time H-1B — subject to the annual lottery	133	0	133	0.0%
ContinuationExtending an H-1B you already hold here	107	3	110	2.7%
AmendedA change at the same employer	10	0	10	10 decisions
Change with same employerNew role, same employer	8	0	8	8 decisions
New concurrentA second, simultaneous H-1B	26	0	26	0%

Where fewer than 20 petitions were decided we print the count instead of a percentage. A percentage drawn from a handful of cases reads like a probability, and it is not one. How the sample thresholds are set.

Year by year, change-of-employer petitions only. The headline above combines the FY2021–FY2025 rows of this table (marked in window); the other years are shown because the denial climate in earlier years was not the same one.

Change of employer, by fiscal year.
Fiscal year	Approved	Denied	n	Denied share	Window
FY2023	0	0	0	—	in window
FY2022	9	1	10	10 decisions	in window
FY2021	8	0	8	8 decisions	in window
FY2020	13	0	13	13 decisions	—
FY2019	10	0	10	10 decisions	—
FY2018	5	0	5	5 decisions	—
FY2017	10	0	10	10 decisions	—
FY2016	4	0	4	4 decisions	—
FY2015	6	0	6	6 decisions	—
FY2013	0	0	0	—	—
FY2012	0	0	0	—	—
FY2009	0	0	0	—	—

Source USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub (I-129 petition decisions) ·Coverage FY2009–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Headline window FY2021–FY2025 combined · Updated 2026-08-28

This is the only place on this site where the word "denial" refers to a visa decision. These figures come from USCIS decisions on H-1B petitions (Form I-129). A denial reflects the outcome of one specific petition and depends on the role, the filing type, the year's adjudication climate, and the case's own facts. A high denial rate does not mean an employer will not sponsor you, and a low one does not guarantee your petition will be approved.

Why separate "change of employer" from "new employment"?

They are different processes. A first-time petition must clear the annual lottery; a change of employer does not take a lottery slot. Averaging them into one "denial rate" hands the job-changer a number that is too high. The gap is systematic across employers, not a quirk of any one of them — which is why the headline above uses the change-of-employer figure rather than a blended one.

Why 5 years combined, and why these 5?

A single year of one employer's petitions is often a handful of cases, and a percentage drawn from a handful reads like a probability. Combining fiscal years raises the count — but only if the years belong to the same period. Across all employers in our data, the share of change-of-employer petitions denied ran at 9.54% in FY2018, 9.42% in FY2019 and 4.99% in FY2020, and has stayed between 1.28% and 1.99% in every one of the 5 years from FY2021 through FY2025. Averaging the earlier years together with FY2025 would not produce a steadier estimate; it would produce a number that describes no period at all. So the window stops where the earlier adjudication climate begins, and every figure drawn from it is labelled with the years it covers.

What this company files as the wage for H-1B roles

DOL LCA · FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3)

$60,064

n = 80certified filings

FY2025 median, from 80 certified filings. DOL LCA · FY2025

Fiscal year	Filed wage	Filings (n)	Certified	Withdrawn	Denied
FY2026 (through Q3)	$60,000 · median of 56	56	57	2	1
FY2025	$60,064 · median of 80	80	81	19	0
FY2024	$61,797 · median of 79	79	79	17	2
FY2023	$57,111 · median of 62	62	62	31	0
FY2022	$51,697 · median of 72	72	72	15	1
FY2021	$52,500 · median of 69	69	69	11	0

Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035) ·Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Updated 2026-08-28 ·Basis certified filings only; records whose wage unit is clearly mis-entered are excluded ·how wages are computed

These figures come from Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) the employer filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. They are the base wage the employer committed to pay — they exclude bonuses, equity, and other compensation, and they do not confirm what any individual was actually paid. A filing is not a hire.

A "denied" count near zero is normal here. The Department of Labor checks whether the form complies, not whether the person can get a visa. What decides that is the USCIS petition — the module above.

What this company pays by job title

DOL LCA · FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3)

Job title	Filed wage	Wage sample (n)
Assistant Professor By seniority (1) (unstated): $53,830 · median of 158	$53,830 median of 158	158
Postdoctoral Researcher By seniority (1) (unstated): $53,982 · median of 74	$53,982 median of 74	74
Data Analyst By seniority (3) (unstated): 5 filings — too few for a median Level 1: 2 filings — too few for a median Level 2: 2 filings — too few for a median	9 filings — too few for a median	9
Data Engineer By seniority (1) (unstated): $82,400 · 1 filing	$82,400 1 filing	1
Program Manager By seniority (1) (unstated): $80,000 · 1 filing	$80,000 1 filing	1

Titles come from the job title as filed, reduced to a known family — see how titles are grouped. Wages are medians of certified filings; a seniority breakdown is shown where the filing stated one.

Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035) · Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Basis certified filings with a stated wage; medians, not averages

Which wage tier this company files at

DOL LCA · FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3)

Every LCA names a prevailing wage — the government's reference rate for that job, in that place, at one of four experience tiers. Level I is entry-level; Level IV is the most senior. Two things matter here: which tier the employer files at, and how far above that reference it actually offers.

+13.9%

n = 418certified filings

Filed wages sit 13.9% above the prevailing wage for the same jobs and tiers. A figure near zero means the employer files at close to the government reference rate; a large one means it files well above.

Wage tier as filed	Filings (n)	Filed wage	Prevailing wage	Difference
Level I	255	$53,000 · median of 255	$47,507 · median of 255	+11.6%
Level II	79	$79,997 · median of 79	$64,813 · median of 79	+23.4%
Level III	5	5 filings — too few for a median	5 filings — too few for a median	—
Level IV	1	$137,670 · 1 filing	$63,586 · 1 filing	—
Not stated on the filing	78	$72,460 · median of 78	$69,422 · median of 78	+4.4%

Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035, prevailing wage level as filed) ·Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) · Updated 2026-08-28 ·Basis certified filings only; medians, not averages

“Not stated” and “marked not applicable” are two different things and we keep them apart. A blank tier means the employer left the field empty; “not applicable” means the employer said the tiered scale does not fit the role. Folding either one into the numbered tiers would turn “we do not know” into “we do”.

A tier is not a judgement about the employer. Filing at Level I for a genuinely entry-level role is correct. What the table shows is where the company placed the role on the scale and what it committed to pay against that reference — nothing more.

Does this company file green card applications?

DOL PERM · FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3)

Yes — PERM filings on record

23 permanent labor certification applications were decided across FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3), 8 of them in FY2026 (through Q3).

Fiscal year	Certified	Certified-expired	Withdrawn	Total
FY2026 (through Q3)	8	0	0	8
FY2025	5	5	1	11
FY2024	4	0	0	4

Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC PERM disclosure files (ETA-9089) ·Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) · Updated 2026-08-28

"Certified-expired" is a common status, not a refusal. A labor certification is valid for a limited window; if the employer does not file the next step in time it expires. That is usually about process timing, not a failed application. We keep it in its own column — never folded into "denied", never into "certified".

We do not estimate anyone's prospects of getting a green card from these numbers.The people who file PERM and the people holding H-1B are not the same group, and years separate the two steps. The table above shows only what this employer actually filed and what was decided.

Any recent layoffs?

State WARN notices

We have no way to know whether this company has had layoffs.
Layoff notices (WARN) are published state by state, and we have loaded only CA. This employer's H-1B worksites are in TN, TX — none of which we have.

This blank does not mean the company has had no layoffs — it means we do not have those states' data. Check each state labor department's WARN page directly.

Source State WARN layoff notices ·States loaded CA (through 2026-08-24) ·Updated 2026-08-28

This page combines 2 filing names

how we grouped them

One company files under many spellings and many legal entities. We combine them so the numbers above cover the whole company rather than one spelling of it — and we list what we combined, so you can check the grouping instead of taking our word for it.

Show the filing names behind this page

Name as filed	FEIN (last 4)	Filings
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center	1636	519

Showing the 1 most common of 2 filing names.

Different tax IDs in this list are normal — large companies file through several legal entities. We never group by tax ID alone: placeholder and mistyped IDs are common enough that doing so would merge unrelated companies. Grouping here comes from the filing names themselves, plus recorded human judgement where two entities are publicly one company.

Where else The University of Tennessee Health Science Center appears on this site

by filing volume

Roles. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is among the top filers for Postdoctoral Researcher. Those pages show the median filed wage for the role across all employers.

Places. It is among the top filers in Memphis, TN, Knoxville, TN and Germantown, TN. Filings are counted by worksite, not by where the company is headquartered.

These are the city and role pages on which this employer ranks among the largest filers — not a complete list of everywhere it files.

Browse all cities and job titles, or read how filings are grouped.

Other employers in TN with too few filings for their own page

not ranked

These employers filed LCAs but have fewer than 10 certified records, which is not enough to build a page on. They are listed so that "not shown" never gets read as "does not sponsor".

AADG Inc. (9) · ABG Operating, LLC (9) · Crestsoft Inc (9) · Fisk University (9) · Hospital Medicine of California, Inc. (9) · Hospital Physician Services of Florida, P.A. (9) · HSS Systems, LLC (9) · InPatient Consultants of Illinois, PC (9)

Showing the 8 with the most filings — 8+ employers in TN are below the threshold. This list is truncated, not complete.