Table 3
The top 30 H-1B employers account for more than one in four H-1B petitions approved by USCIS: Top 30 H-1B employers by number of approved petitions, fiscal year 2019
| Rank | Employer name | Total H-1B petition approvals | Outsourcing/offshoring business model? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cognizant Technology | 13,466 | Yes |
| 2 | Deloitte Consulting LLP | 7,690 | Yes |
| 3 | Tata Consultancy | 7,620 | Yes |
| 4 | Amazon.com Services | 7,337 | — |
| 5 | Google LLC | 6,054 | — |
| 6 | Infosys Ltd. | 5,546 | Yes |
| 7 | Microsoft Corp. | 5,275 | — |
| 8 | Capgemini America Inc. | 3,695 | Yes |
| 9 | Facebook Inc. | 3,552 | — |
| 10 | Larsen & Toubro Infotech | 3,495 | Yes |
| 11 | Apple Inc. | 3,469 | — |
| 12 | Wipro Ltd. | 3,131 | Yes |
| 13 | Accenture LLP | 3,120 | Yes |
| 14 | Intel Corp. | 2,992 | — |
| 15 | IBM Corp. | 2,966 | Yes |
| 16 | Ernst & Young US LLP | 2,910 | Yes |
| 17 | Tech Mahindra Americas | 2,866 | Yes |
| 18 | HCL America Inc. | 2,431 | Yes |
| 19 | Cisco Systems Inc. | 2,098 | — |
| 20 | Oracle America Inc. | 2,005 | — |
| 21 | PricewaterhouseCoopers | 1,735 | Yes |
| 22 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 1,697 | — |
| 23 | Qualcomm Technologies | 1,620 | — |
| 24 | Walmart Associates Inc. | 1,518 | — |
| 25 | Salesforce.com Inc. | 1,310 | — |
| 26 | Mphasis Corp. | 1,303 | Yes |
| 27 | Amazon Web Services | 1,283 | — |
| 28 | Syntel Inc. | 1,196 | Yes |
| 29 | Uber Technologies Inc. | 1,160 | — |
| 30 | Randstad Technologies | 1,120 | — |
| Total H-1B petition approvals, top 30 | 105,660 | ||
| Total H-1B petition approvals, all employers | 389,323 | ||
| Top 30 share of total H-1B petition approvals | 27% | ||
Notes: H-1B petition approvals include approved petitions for initial and continuing employment. Petitions are approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Source: Authors’ analysis of USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, fiscal year 2019 data
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