17 certified Labor Condition Applications on file with the U.S. Department of Labor, FY2022–FY2026.
Since September 2025, DOL's Project Firewall opens H-1B investigations without waiting for a complaint. These checkpoints come from Northern California Institute for Research and Education's own public LCA filings (FY2024–FY2026) — the same records an investigator pulls first.
Median offered wage is 0% above the DOL prevailing wage across 9 recent certified LCAs. Paying at the floor is lawful, but it invites the question of whether the wage level itself is right.
Next end date: 2026-12-28. 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%.
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 — Northern California Institute for Research and Education sponsors H-1B workers, with 17 certified LCAs on file (FY2022–FY2026), including 2 in FY2026. The median certified salary is $77,075 (P25 $66,685, P75 $85,030). 100% of its certified filings meet or exceed the prevailing wage.
Northern California Institute for Research and Education H-1B sponsorship at a glance, from public U.S. DOL LCA disclosure data (FY2022–FY2026).
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; 29% of filings are senior-level (III–IV).
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| FY2023 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2024 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2025 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| FY2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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 Withdrawn are LCAs that were certified and later withdrawn by the employer; they still count toward Total.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Staff Research Associate IV I-200-26061-674666 | $97,240/yr | II | San Francisco, CA | Mar 02, 2026 | Certified |
Staff Research Associate III I-200-26029-602133 | $70,304/yr | II | San Francisco, CA | Jan 29, 2026 | Certified |
Principal Statistician I-200-25191-166094 | $120,474/yr | IV | San Francisco, CA | Jul 10, 2025 | Certified |
Assistant Research Scientist I-200-25108-881281 | $95,056/yr$45/hr as filed | II | San Francisco, CA | Apr 18, 2025 | Certified |
Assistant Research Scientist I-200-25086-807799 | $95,056/yr | II | San Francisco, CA | Mar 27, 2025 | Certified |
Assistant Research Scientist I-200-25009-607318 | $72,946/yr | II | San Francisco, CA | Jan 09, 2025 | Certified |
Statistician I-200-24130-979446 | $83,595/yr | III | Anaheim, CA | May 09, 2024 | Certified |
Research Scholar I-200-24117-929924 | $66,685/yr | II | San Francisco, CA | Apr 26, 2024 | Certified |
Statistician I-200-24043-711243 | $83,595/yr | III | San Francisco, CA | Feb 12, 2024 | Certified |
Staff Research Associate III (Research Scholar) I-200-23264-365099 | $66,685/yr | II | San Francisco, CA | Sep 20, 2023 | Certified |
Statistician I-200-23181-160363 | $85,030/yr | III | Cupertino, CA | Jun 30, 2023 | Certified |
Research Specialist I-200-23145-055618 | $81,203/yr | I | San Francisco, CA | May 25, 2023 | Certified |
Operation Research Analyst I-200-22255-466802 | $59,238/yr | II | San Francisco, CA | Sep 12, 2022 | Certified |
Senior Research Statistician I-200-22249-457413 | $85,030/yr | III | San Francisco, CA | Sep 06, 2022 | Certified |
Assistant Research Scientist I-200-22235-433545 | $67,000/yr | II | San Francisco, CA | Aug 23, 2022 | Certified |
Staff Research Associate III I-200-22181-322873 | $62,400/yr | II | San Francisco, CA | Jun 29, 2022 | Certified |
Assistant Research Scientist I-200-22130-155484 | $63,149/yr | II | San Francisco, CA | May 10, 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–FY2026 disclosure records.
Most active filing months: May and Sep — 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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