This page explains where MyCasesHub H-1B data comes from, how employer records are unified, and how quality scores and suppression rules are applied.
The USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub provides approval and denial counts broken down by employer and fiscal year. It covers initial approval, initial denial, continuing approval, and continuing denial decisions. This is the primary source for all approval rate and decision count figures shown on employer profile pages.
The Department of Labor publishes Labor Condition Application (LCA) disclosure data each quarter. An LCA is a required filing before an H-1B petition can be submitted; it records the employer, the offered wage, the worksite location, the job title, and the SOC occupation code. MyCasesHub uses LCA data as the source for all offered wage figures, job title breakdowns, and worksite distributions.
The Department of Labor also publishes permanent labor certification (PERM) disclosure data. PERM is step one of the EB-2 and EB-3 employment-based green card process; a certified PERM application means the employer has demonstrated that no qualified U.S. worker was available for the role. Certification does not by itself grant a green card. MyCasesHub shows PERM counts alongside H-1B data to give a fuller picture of an employer's immigration activity.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) data provides prevailing wage benchmarks by occupation and metropolitan area. These benchmarks define wage levels I through IV used in the H-1B and LCA programs. The Prevailing Wage and Wage Map tools are built entirely from OEWS data.
Employer names in government disclosure data are not standardized. The same company may appear under its legal name, a trade name, an acronym, or with minor spelling differences across different filings and fiscal years. MyCasesHub normalizes employer names and rolls them up to a canonical entity, so that subsidiaries and spelling variants aggregate together under a single profile.
All employer numbers shown on the H-1B Data Hub, including total approvals and total filings, are canonical-group all-time totals. They reflect the combined history of the canonical entity and all known name variants, not just one specific legal name as it appeared in a single filing year.
Any rate or wage figure derived from fewer than 11 underlying decisions or records is hidden and shown as "Too few records." This threshold prevents exposing statistically unreliable figures that could misrepresent an employer's hiring patterns. An employer with fewer than 11 total decisions, or with fewer than 11 disclosed wage records, will not receive a quality score.
The suppression rule applies to approval rates, median wages, wage percentiles, and all derived statistics throughout the H-1B Data Hub.
The quality score is a single 0 to 100 number that summarizes an employer's H-1B track record. It is computed as follows.
The score starts at 0.
The employer's overall approval rate is multiplied by 60. An employer with a 90% approval rate earns 54 points from this component.
This component measures how far the employer's median offered wage exceeds the prevailing wage for the occupation. The excess is clamped between 0 and 0.5 above parity (meaning a premium of 50% or more earns the full component), then scaled to 30 points. An employer paying exactly at the prevailing wage earns 0 from this component. An employer paying 25% above prevailing earns 15 points. An employer paying 50% or more above prevailing earns the full 30 points. When an employer has fewer than 11 disclosed wage records, the wage premium cannot be measured, so no quality score is shown rather than treating the missing premium as zero.
100 or more total decisions adds 10 points. 30 or more adds 6 points. 11 or more adds 3 points. Fewer than 11 decisions means no score is shown at all (insufficient data, per the suppression rule).
An employer flagged as a willful violator by the DOL loses 40 points, floored at 0. The score is marked "adjusted" to indicate the penalty was applied.
| Grade | Score Range |
|---|---|
| A | 85 and above |
| B | 70 to 84 |
| C | 55 to 69 |
| D | Below 55 |
Employers in NAICS sector 61 (Educational Services) or 62 (Health Care and Social Assistance) are flagged as cap-exempt. These employers are typically not subject to the annual H-1B lottery cap, which means their petitions can be filed at any time and are not limited by the 65,000 regular-cap or 20,000 U.S. advanced-degree exemption slots.
This is a heuristic based on industry sector code, not a determination of any individual employer's legal status. An employer's actual cap-exempt status depends on its specific organizational type and how a petition is filed. When in doubt, consult qualified immigration counsel.
The data shown on MyCasesHub reflects the most recent USCIS, DOL, and OEWS releases that have been loaded into the system. Each employer profile displays a "Most recent filing" date that indicates the latest LCA filing date present in the data for that employer.
Government disclosure data is published on a lag. USCIS fiscal year data typically becomes available several months after the close of the fiscal year. DOL LCA data is released quarterly. BLS OEWS data is released annually.