Filing address: Amherst, MAworksites: MA, IA, MD, NC, NJ (5 of 6 states)
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.
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.
Source USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub (I-129 petition decisions) ·Coverage FY2009–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Updated 2026-08-28
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.
FY2025 median, from 59 certified filings. DOL LCA · FY2025
| Fiscal year | Filed wage | Filings (n) | Certified | Withdrawn | Denied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (through Q3) | $80,000 · median of 39 | 39 | 39 | 15 | 0 |
| FY2025 | $82,500 · median of 59 | 59 | 59 | 10 | 0 |
| FY2024 | $84,500 · median of 48 | 48 | 48 | 31 | 0 |
| FY2023 | $79,564 · median of 36 | 36 | 36 | 24 | 0 |
| FY2022 | $82,451 · median of 46 | 46 | 46 | 52 | 0 |
| FY2021 | $81,468 · median of 38 | 38 | 38 | 7 | 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
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.
Filed wages sit 22.4% 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 | 15 | $63,000 · median of 15 | $52,957 · median of 15 | +19% |
| Level II | 10 | $69,630 · median of 10 | $64,074 · median of 10 | +8.7% |
| Level III | 2 | 2 filings — too few for a median | 2 filings — too few for a median | — |
| Level IV | 1 | $110,000 · 1 filing | $102,315 · 1 filing | — |
| Not stated on the filing | 238 | $84,999 · median of 238 | $69,000 · median of 238 | +23.2% |
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
29 permanent labor certification applications were decided across FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3), 6 of them in FY2026 (through Q3).
| Fiscal year | Certified | Certified-expired | Denied | Withdrawn | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (through Q3) | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| FY2025 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2024 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2023 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| FY2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2021 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC PERM disclosure files (ETA-9089) ·Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) · Updated 2026-08-28
Source State WARN layoff notices ·States loaded CA (through 2026-08-24) ·Updated 2026-08-28
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.
| Name as filed | FEIN (last 4) | Filings |
|---|---|---|
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | 2284 | 204 |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst | 2284 | 201 |
Showing the 2 most common of 4 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.
Places. It is among the top filers in Amherst, MA, Hadley, MA and Northampton, MA. 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.
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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".
Allen & Gerritsen Inc. (9) · Alltrna, Inc. (9) · Analog Photonics LLC (9) · Anika Therapeutics, Inc. (9) · Aqility Inc. (9) · ASMPT NEXX, Inc. (9) · Avant-Garde Health Inc (9) · Banner Seventeen, LLC (9)
Showing the 8 with the most filings — 8+ employers in MA are below the threshold. This list is truncated, not complete.