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Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

H-1B visa and green card sponsorship record

San Jose, CA Manufacturing Files from CA On record FY2020–FY2026

Yes — Western Digital Technologies, Inc. sponsors H-1B visas.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) certified 233 of its H-1B filings in FY2025 and 177 so far in FY2026 (through June 30, 2026).

At a glance

Certified H-1B filings, FY2025
233 177 so far in FY2026
Median offered salary, FY2025
$136,552 from 232 filings
USCIS approval rate, FY2020–FY2022
99.0% of 209 new petitions
Green card filings (PERM), FY2025
34
E-Verify
Not on the 2018 list
H-1B dependent
No

Fiscal years (FY) run October to September. Approval rates are from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Sponsorship score

10/10

Computed September 30, 2026 from its FY2020–FY2025 record.

  • Recent approvals 3/3

    73 new H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in FY2022

  • Entry-level hiring 3/3

    62% of 1,002 H-1B filings with a wage level were entry level (I or II), FY2023–FY2025

  • Files every year 2/2

    Certified H-1B filings in 3 of the 3 years FY2023–FY2025

  • Approval rate 2/2

    99.0% of 209 new petitions approved, FY2020–FY2022

H-1B filings (Department of Labor)

Before filing an H-1B petition, an employer must get a Labor Condition Application (LCA) certified by the Department of Labor. These are this company's LCAs, by fiscal year.

H-1B filings with the Department of Labor, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearFiledCertified H-1BDeniedWithdrawnEntry level
FY20203353280440% of 282
FY20215255240161% of 463
FY20225805750755% of 484
FY20234484400864% of 384
FY20245415373060% of 432
FY20252352330160% of 186
FY2026 so far1771770056% of 117
Certified H-1B filings, FY2020–FY2026. Tallest bar: FY2022, 575. Scaled to this chart's own tallest bar.

Entry level is the share of certified H-1B filings with a stated wage level that were level I or II.

“Filed”, “Denied” and “Withdrawn” count every LCA, including the E-3 and H-1B1 visas that use the same form; “Certified H-1B” counts H-1B only. A filing certified and later withdrawn counts in both columns.

FY2026 is in progress: data runs through June 30, 2026.

H-1B approvals (USCIS)

After DOL certifies an LCA, the employer files the H-1B petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which approves or denies it. New petitions and extensions or transfers are counted separately.

H-1B petitions decided by USCIS, by fiscal year
New petitionsExtensions and transfers
Fiscal yearApprovedDeniedApproval rateApprovedDenied
FY2009320100.0%180
FY201035197.2%311
FY2011240100.0%381
FY2012160100.0%350
FY2013280100.0%672
FY2014310100.0%490
FY2015110100.0%440
FY201650100.0%540
FY2017590100.0%1181
FY201849198.0%1552
FY201961198.4%1073
FY202068297.1%1381
FY2021660100.0%1391
FY2022730100.0%1570
FY2023 (partial)5183.3%512
New H-1B petitions approved, FY2009–FY2023. Tallest bar: FY2022, 73. Scaled to this chart's own tallest bar.

These numbers come from USCIS, which decides H-1B petitions. They count different things from Department of Labor filings, so we never add the two together.

FY2023 is incomplete: USCIS's last data release covers only part of that year (38,315 new approvals nationwide, against 138,381 in FY2022).

USCIS hasn't published employer-level approval data after FY2023.

Salaries

Offered salary is the yearly pay an employer states on a certified, full-time H-1B filing — the bottom of the range when it gives one. Hourly, weekly and monthly pay is converted to a yearly figure; amounts under $15,000 or over $1,000,000 a year are left out. The typical range is the middle half: a quarter of filings offered less, and a quarter more.

Offered salaries on certified H-1B filings, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearMedianTypical rangeFilings
FY2020$134,597$115,000 – $155,431328
FY2021$120,578$105,000 – $145,000524
FY2022$132,000$112,000 – $154,165575
FY2023$126,464$107,682 – $145,000440
FY2024$131,474$115,000 – $150,244537
FY2025$136,552$115,855 – $155,251232
FY2026 so far$150,051$120,182 – $163,030176

Wage levels since FY2023

  • Level I (entry) 427 38%
  • Level II (entry) 255 23%
  • Level III 222 20%
  • Level IV 215 19%

Shares of the 1,119 certified H-1B filings since FY2023 that state a wage level. 268 filings didn't state one.

Jobs and locations

Certified H-1B filings since FY2023, with the median offered salary for each.

Top job titles

Top job titles on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
Job titleFilingsMedian salaryTypical wage level
Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering121$137,363III
Senior Engineer, Industrial Engineering91$102,515I (entry)
Staff Engineer, R&D Engineering58$134,514II (entry)
Principal Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering42$155,043III
Staff Engineer, Industrial Engineering40$107,702II (entry)
Staff Engineer, Development Engineering34$129,000II (entry)
Principal Engineer, Firmware Engineering28$140,525II (entry)
Senior Engineer, Firmware Engineering24$93,330I (entry)
Staff Engineer, Product Design Engineering22$130,000II (entry)
Staff Engineer, Systems Design Engineering22$139,247II (entry)

Top locations

Top worksites on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
LocationFilingsMedian salary
San Jose, CA457$132,000
Milpitas, CA382$132,000
Fremont, CA126$138,856
Irvine, CA101$129,667
Santa Clara, CA49$128,690
Roseville, CA20$115,086
Folsom, CA18$135,179
Sunnyvale, CA18$127,307
Colorado Springs, CO15$117,957
Rochester, MN14$93,000

Top occupations

Top occupations on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
OccupationFilingsMedian salary
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 17-2072363$130,000
Industrial Engineers 17-2112223$107,702
Software Developers 15-1252148$137,669
Materials Engineers 17-2131109$137,000
Mechanical Engineers 17-2141109$134,800
Information Technology Project Managers 15-1299102$150,405

What the filings were for

What its certified H-1B filings since FY2023 were for, as marked on each LCA. One filing can cover several workers, so these count worker positions.

Worker positions on certified H-1B filings since FY2023, by purpose
Filing typeWorker positionsShare
New employment New H-1B workers joining the company5,28328%
Continuation of existing employment Extensions for current H-1B workers3,36218%
Change of employer Transfers in: H-1B workers moving from another employer3,37118%
Change in previous employment Changes to a current H-1B worker's job3,35818%
Concurrent employment A second H-1B job alongside one elsewhere45<1%
Amended petition Amendments to a petition already filed3,52219%

It also has 2 certified H-1B1 filings (for citizens of Chile and Singapore) since FY2023. They use the same form and aren't counted above.

Green card sponsorship (PERM)

Most employer-sponsored green cards start with a PERM labor certification, filed with the Department of Labor. These are this company's, by fiscal year.

Green card filings (PERM), by fiscal year
Fiscal yearFiledCertifiedDeniedWithdrawn
FY2020636102
FY2021646301
FY2022686602
FY2023545400
FY2024433904
FY2025343400
FY2026 so far646400

FY2026 is in progress: data runs through June 30, 2026.

Across all its green card filings since FY2020, whatever the outcome. DOL's newer PERM form doesn't include citizenship or education, so those two lists cover filings made on the older one.

Top green card job titles

Top job titles on green card filings
Job titleFilings
Senior Engineer, Industrial Engineering30
Senior Engineer, Electronic Design Engineering21
Principal Engineer, Firmware Engineering14
Staff Engineer, R&D Engineering12
Senior Engineer, Product Design Engineering10
Sr. Engineer, Industrial Engineering8
Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering6
Staff Engineer, Industrial Engineering6

Countries of citizenship

Countries of citizenship on green card filings
CountryFilings
India183
China45
Taiwan8
South Korea6
Israel5
Bangladesh2
Egypt2
Iran2

Minimum education required

Minimum education required on green card filings
EducationFilings
Master's215
Bachelor's36
Doctorate16

E-Verify

Not on the 2018 E-Verify list

We didn't find Western Digital Technologies, Inc. on USCIS's list of E-Verify employers dated December 31, 2018.

Why it matters: employers must be enrolled in E-Verify to employ F-1 students on the STEM OPT extension (8 CFR 214.2(f)(10)(ii)(C)).

This list is from December 31, 2018, and it's the only one USCIS has published. It shows who was enrolled on that date: a company that enrolled later isn't on it, so not being on the list tells you nothing.

How we match companies to the list

The employer's name key appears in the USCIS E-Verify participating-employers list with a state the employer files in. That list is one snapshot, enrolled as of 2018-12-31, so false means only "not on the 2018 list" - not that the employer does not use E-Verify today, and not that it did not enrol the following week. The list carries no FEIN and no case number, so the match is by normalised name and state alone.

Other things to know

H-1B dependent
No

On most of its certified filings in FY2023–FY2025 that answered the question, the company said it is not H-1B dependent. A dependent employer has a large share of H-1B workers on staff and makes extra promises about recruiting and not displacing U.S. workers.

How we work this out

The employer answered Yes to H1B_DEPENDENT on at least half of the certified LCAs where it answered the question, in FY2023-FY2025. false means it answered and Yes was under half; NULL means no certified case answered the question (E-3 and H-1B1 filings answer N/A). The floor is there because a single Yes among thousands of No answers is a tick in the wrong box: it would badge 979 employers that said Yes once, one of them on 1 filing of 2,760; the 473 that answered only once or twice still are. A dependent employer is not a worse employer: the answer is a statutory test on the share of H-1B workers on staff, not a finding.

Willful violator
No

The company's answers on its filings in FY2020–FY2025 don't show a repeated yes. Employers state on each filing whether DOL has found them to be a willful violator in the five years before; this is the company's own answer, not a DOL record.

How we work this out

The employer answered Yes to WILLFUL_VIOLATOR on at least two LCAs in FY2020-FY2025, certified or not, in at least two fiscal years, and in at least one of those years Yes was half or more of what it answered. The floor is there because a single Yes among thousands of No answers is a tick in the wrong box: 505 employers answer Yes exactly once and never twice, and the two employers with the most Yes answers say it on one filing in two thousand. false means the employer answered and did not meet that bar; NULL means it never answered. THIS IS THE FILER'S OWN ATTESTATION ON THE LCA, NOT A DOL FINDING. The authoritative source is the DOL published debarment list, which this project does not yet mirror - it is a follow-up catalog entry - so nothing here has been checked against it.

Cap-exempt
No sign

Nothing in its name or industry code suggests a college or university. That doesn't make it subject to the cap: nonprofit research organizations and affiliated hospitals can be exempt too, and we can't detect them.

How we work this out

INFERRED, not a determination. true when an FY2023+ LCA carries a NAICS code beginning 6112 or 6113 (junior colleges, colleges and universities) or a raw spelling of the employer's name contains the word UNIVERSITY or COLLEGE. Never false: the column is NULL when neither signal is present, because the absence of a signal is not evidence that an employer is cap-subject. Non-profit research organisations and affiliated hospitals are cap-exempt and both tests miss them. Only USCIS decides cap exemption, petition by petition.

Company details

Name on filings
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Other names on filings
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; DBA Western Digital Technologies, Inc.; Manufacturer of information storage products
Address on filings
San Jose, CA 95119
Industry
Manufacturing (NAICS 334112)
Employees
65,408, as stated on its FY2024 green card filings
Employer ID (FEIN)
95-2647125
On record
FY2020–FY2026
Latest decision on its filings
June 30, 2026

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Sources

  • H-1B and green card filings: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, FY2020 through June 30, 2026.
  • H-1B approvals: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, complete through FY2022; FY2023 is partial.
  • E-Verify: USCIS's list of E-Verify employers as of December 31, 2018.
  • Sponsorship score: computed September 30, 2026 with version 1 of the rules on How Visa Grep works.
  • USCIS approvals are matched to this company by exact name (1 USCIS name). The last four digits of the Employer ID agree.
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