LCA decisions in 2025 and through March 31, 2026

Watershed H-1B sponsor data for IT roles

Short answer

Watershed filed 7 H-1B labor condition applications for IT occupations in the DOL disclosure data (LCA decisions in 2025 and through March 31, 2026), which ranks it 2,257 of 3,365 employers with five or more IT filings. The most common occupation is software developers (4 filings) and the most common state is CA (6).

Watershed filings by occupation

OccupationFilingsShare
Software Developers457%
Web and Digital Interface Designers229%
Data Scientists114%

Most common job titles

Job title on the filingFilings
Software Engineer4
Product Designer2
Data Scientist1

Where the roles are

StateFilings
CA6
NY1
CityFilings
San Francisco, CA6
New York, NY1

Wage levels and offered wage

Wage levelFilingsShare
Level I229%
Level II114%
Level III114%
Level IV343%

Most filings (43%) are at Level IV. The median offered wage on these filings is $199,500 a year against a median prevailing wage of $161,637, which is 14.2% above the prevailing wage. 100% of filings offer at least the prevailing wage listed on the same filing. 100% are full time. See prevailing wages by occupation and area for the DOL levels.

Employers filing in software developers, like Watershed

About this data

Source and definitions are on the H-1B sponsors guide. An LCA is not an approval or a job opening. Corrections: support@matchwire.co.

Questions

How many H-1B filings did Watershed make for IT roles?

7 labor condition applications in this dataset (LCA decisions in 2025 and through March 31, 2026).

What wage did Watershed offer on these filings?

The median offered wage was $199,500 a year against a median prevailing wage of $161,637, 14.2% above the prevailing wage.

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