7 certified Labor Condition Applications on file with the U.S. Department of Labor, FY2021–FY2022.
Since September 2025, DOL's Project Firewall opens H-1B investigations without waiting for a complaint. These checkpoints come from Cognitive Scale Inc.'s own public LCA filings (FY2020–FY2022) — the same records an investigator pulls first.
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 43% above the DOL prevailing wage across 7 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.
No additional recruitment or non-displacement attestations apply.
Public DOL disclosure data can lag actual filings by a quarter. Descriptive only — not legal advice.
Yes — Cognitive Scale Inc. sponsors H-1B workers, with 7 certified LCAs on file (FY2021–FY2022), including 4 in FY2022. The median certified salary is $130,000 (P25 $125,000, P75 $135,000). 100% of its certified filings meet or exceed the prevailing wage.
Cognitive Scale Inc. H-1B sponsorship at a glance, from public U.S. DOL LCA disclosure data (FY2021–FY2022).
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; 43% of filings are senior-level (III–IV).
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2022 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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 Withdrawn are LCAs that were certified and later withdrawn by the employer; they still count toward Total.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Project Management Director I-200-22158-251256 | $158,000/yr | IV | Austin, TX | Jun 07, 2022 | Certified |
Software Engineer III I-200-22157-249833 | $130,000/yr | III | Austin, TX | Jun 06, 2022 | Certified |
Software Engineer I-200-22132-164636 | $130,000/yr | II | Austin, TX | May 12, 2022 | Certified |
Technical Program Manager I-200-21306-681439 | $140,000/yr | IV | Austin, TX | Nov 02, 2021 | Certified |
Associate Machine Learning Engineer I-200-20345-950692 | $125,000/yr | II | Austin, TX | Dec 10, 2020 | 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 FY2021–FY2022 disclosure records.
Most active filing months: Dec and Jun — 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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