10 certified Labor Condition Applications on file with the U.S. Department of Labor, FY2022–FY2025.
Since September 2025, DOL's Project Firewall opens H-1B investigations without waiting for a complaint. These checkpoints come from Alignment Research Center's own public LCA filings (FY2023–FY2025) — the same records an investigator pulls first.
Next end date: 2027-02-28. Employing an H-1B worker past the LCA end date without a new certified LCA is a strict-liability violation — the replacement LCA must be certified before the I-129 extension is filed.
Level I is the entry-level prevailing-wage tier and the band DOL's Project Firewall reviews first for misclassification (senior duties filed at an entry-level wage). The national share is 17%.
Median offered wage is 76% above the DOL prevailing wage across 8 recent certified LCAs. Paying at the floor is lawful, but it invites the question of whether the wage level itself is right.
Each worksite needs its own 10-business-day LCA notice and a PAF record of that posting; a move to a new area of intended employment needs a new LCA before the worker starts there.
Public DOL disclosure data can lag actual filings by a quarter. Descriptive only — not legal advice.
Yes — Alignment Research Center sponsors H-1B workers, with 10 certified LCAs on file (FY2022–FY2025), including 1 in FY2025. The median certified salary is $200,000 (P25 $193,000, P75 $204,000). 100% of its certified filings meet or exceed the prevailing wage.
Alignment Research Center H-1B sponsorship at a glance, from public U.S. DOL LCA disclosure data (FY2022–FY2025).
Certified LCAs are a prerequisite to H-1B petitions, not visa approvals; one LCA can cover multiple workers. Descriptive only — not legal advice.
The shaded band is the middle half of certified salaries (P25–P75); the bar spans the lowest to highest certified salary.
Levels I–IV are DOL prevailing-wage experience tiers; 18% of filings are senior-level (III–IV).
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| FY2023 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| FY2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Case dispositions from the U.S. DOL OFLC disclosure files. Withdrawn are LCAs that were certified and later withdrawn by the employer; they still count toward Total.
| Job title | Salary | Level | Location | Filed | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine Learning Alignment Researcher I-200-24352-550742 | $200,000/yr | III | Berkeley, CA | Dec 17, 2024 | Certified |
Member of Technical Staff I-200-24092-845353 | $208,000/yr$100/hr as filed | III | Berkeley, CA | Apr 01, 2024 | Certified |
Machine Learning Alignment Researcher I-200-24064-768158 | $208,000/yr | I | Berkeley, CA | Mar 04, 2024 | Certified |
Chief of Staff I-200-24032-685005 | $150,000/yr | II | Berkeley, CA | Feb 01, 2024 | Certified |
Machine Learning Alignment Researcher I-200-23213-230226 | $208,000/yr | I | Berkeley, CA | Aug 01, 2023 | Certified |
Software Engineer, Web Dev and ML focus I-200-23013-703066 | $186,000/yr | II | Berkeley, CA | Jan 13, 2023 | Certified, withdrawn |
Machine Learning Researcher I-200-22361-661416 | $200,000/yr | II | Berkeley, CA | Dec 27, 2022 | Certified |
Machine Learning Researcher I-200-22280-517402 | $200,000/yr | II | Berkeley, CA | Oct 07, 2022 | Certified |
Machine Learning Researcher I-200-22200-361885 | $200,000/yr | II | Berkeley, CA | Jul 19, 2022 | Withdrawn |
Machine Learning Researcher I-200-22200-363198 | $130,000/yr | II | Berkeley, CA | Jul 19, 2022 | Certified |
Machine Learning Alignment Researcher I-200-22102-063294 | $200,000/yr | II | Berkeley, CA | Apr 12, 2022 | Certified |
One row per LCA case (its latest version), from U.S. DOL OFLC disclosure data. Salaries are the offered wage, converted to a yearly figure. Certified LCAs are not visa approvals.
Worker positions by LCA filing purpose, summed across FY2022–FY2025 disclosure records.
Most active filing months: Apr and Jul — useful for timing transfer conversations.
Attestations from the employer's own LCA filings (Form ETA-9035), as disclosed by the U.S. DOL.
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