Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) data provides you visibility into where employers are requesting permission to sponsor international talent and the labor conditions associated with those requests across occupations, industries, and regions.

An employer must file an LCA with the U.S. Department of Labor before submitting an H-1B petition, attesting to wages and working conditions for the roles they intend to sponsor.

By examining LCA activity over time, you can identify patterns in employer sponsorship filings and understand where organizations are requesting permission to hire international workers. This helps reveal which occupations, industries, and companies are frequently filing LCAs and how that activity changes over time.

The data also highlights wages associated with these filings, helping users contextualize labor market conditions for roles where employers may seek international sponsorship. Geographic analysis allows users to see where LCA activity is concentrated and how sponsorship varies across regions. Together, these insights help employers, policymakers, and workforce leaders better understand sponsorship planning activity and where employers may be exploring international hiring as part of their workforce strategy.

To generate this report, start by selecting an occupation. You can choose an occupation linked to SOC, O*NET, or LOT classifications, and you may select multiple related occupations at the same time. Next, select the location and time frame. You can further refine the results using additional filters such as industry and company.

After you run the report, the selected filters remain available within the report view, allowing you to compare or adjust results directly.

For example, when generating a report for the Software Developer occupation, the results may display industries such as Software Publishers, along with its NAICS code and insights including the number of Workers requested as 9,053, Total Certified Applications are 4,449, Share of Workers Requested is 25.21%, and $174,003 as the Proposed Median Salary.

This report provides a comprehensive view of LCAs for selected occupations and locations within a chosen time frame. At the top of the report, a brief description explains its purpose, and you can select “more details” to view an expanded explanation of LCA data.

For the selected occupation, the report displays all relevant results along with standard data columns. This structured layout allows you to review LCA activity consistently across occupations and locations.

This report automatically includes a set of standard columns based on the selected filters, such as Industry, Occupation, and Company. These default columns ensure a consistent and structured view of insights across the selected time frame.

This section allows you to tailor the report by selecting only the relevant columns using additional columns. This helps you to reduce the clutter in the report. You can customize By

The toggle feature provides a quick visual comparison of values within a column. It highlights higher and lower values using color intensity to make trends easier to identify.

Filters help narrow the report results so you can focus on specific time periods, occupations, industries or locations. Using filters improves accuracy and supports deeper analysis.

All available filters appear on the left side of the report.

This section allows you to reuse or download your customized report. Saving and exporting of the report ensures easy access and sharing of insights.

Save

After generating the report with your selected options:

Saved reports are available in the Saved Reports section on the home page.

Export

You can download the report for offline use.

You can generate a Location report for regional comparison and identify which areas are concentrated for LCA for selected occupation and support geographic decision-making and identify the trends on regional reliance and international talent.

This report uses the same steps as the standard LCA report generation process. Refer to the How to generate report section and follow those steps to run the report. Once the report is generated using your selected options, the system automatically creates a location-based view of the data.

The geographic map visually represents the selected locations included in the report. Each selected location is highlighted on the map for easy identification.

When you point to a highlighted location on the map, a tooltip appears. The tooltip shows:

For example, the tooltip may display:

This allows you to quickly view location-specific application counts without leaving the report view.

In addition to the map, the same data is displayed in a table format below the map. This view allows users to review and compare numeric values across locations.

The table referenced includes the following columns other than selection location:

Note that all standard table report features are available for the location-based report as well. This ensures a consistent experience across different report views.

You can use Default Columns, Customize Columns, Toggle View, Apply filters, and Save or Export in location report the same way as tabular report.