H-1B sponsorship profile: Smithfield Foods, Inc. Across U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosures, Smithfield Foods, Inc filed 5 Labor Condition Applications covering 5 H-1B worker positions between fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 2025. The employer’s DOL certification rate sits at 100% (5 certified of 5 filed), a useful proxy for how cleanly their prevailing-wage attestations pass the Labor Department’s preliminary review before USCIS adjudication.

Compensation spread. Offered wages on Smithfield Foods, Inc’s H-1B petitions range from $95,275 at the low end to $132,184 at the high end, with a petition-weighted average of $121,329. That range reflects the mix of occupations the company sponsors, led by Senior IT Data Solution Architect (2 petitions at $132,184 avg), followed by Project Engineer and Senior Commodity Hedging Accounting Analyst. H-1B salaries reported on LCAs must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage for the role and worksite, so the spread also tracks wage-level geography and seniority.

Geographic footprint. Smithfield Foods, Inc is headquartered in SMITHFIELD, VA under NAICS code 311613, and places H-1B workers across 4 states, most heavily in VA, MI, MA. Combined, these signals give a granular view of how one employer uses the H-1B program, volume, approval cleanliness, wage posture, and where the jobs actually sit on the map.

Where Smithfield Foods, Inc ranks. By H-1B petition volume, Smithfield Foods, Inc is #26,547 of 119,880 employers nationally and #1,018 of 3,399 employers headquartered in VA. Both ranks are computed live from the same underlying petition counts, not a separate estimate.