H-1B LCA Filings in St. Louis, MO-IL
LCA filing records in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data lists 14,493 Labor Condition Application filings from 2,431 distinct employer filers across the St. Louis, MO-IL metropolitan area. DOL certified 97.4% of those filings, a DOL record status for the prevailing-wage and working-condition attestations. This filing record does not establish a USCIS petition, an approval, a hire, confirmed sponsorship, or a visa outcome.
Where this metro sits in the corpus. St. Louis, MO-IL ranks #25 of 113 published metro profiles by disclosed LCA filing volume, putting it in the top 22% of the current dataset. The comparison is only about recorded filing volume in this DOL snapshot; it does not estimate local job availability, confirmed sponsorship, visa approvals, or the size of the area’s overall workforce.
Certification posture. Among metros with ≥100 LCA filings, St. Louis, MO-IL’s 97.4% DOL certification rate ranks #72 of 113. That is a mid-pack DOL certification rate relative to other published metros.
Occupation mix. The occupation with the most listed LCA filings in the metro is Software Developers. Software and computing titles account for the most listed LCA filings in this metro. The mix describes DOL filing records. It is not a measure of local demand, role eligibility, actual compensation, or hiring.
Offered wage. Across disclosed LCAs assigned to St. Louis, MO-IL, the average annualized offered wage is $105,356. That uses the same 15k–1M annualization guard as employer, occupation, and state pages, so a handful of unit-confused rows cannot drag the metro average into the millions.
Software-title filing market
The lead occupation is Software Developers. Software and computing titles account for the most listed LCA filings in this metro. Filing-volume rank #25 · employer-filer breadth rank #24 · 97.4% DOL certification among metros with ≥100 filings where ranked.
Annual Breakdown
| Year | LCA filings | Certified | Cert Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 5,202 | 5,076 | 97.6% |
| FY2024 | 4,168 | 4,055 | 97.3% |
| FY2025 | 4,259 | 4,145 | 97.3% |
| FY2026(partial) | 864 | 840 | 97.2% |
About This Data
H-1B Labor Condition Application (LCA) filing data is sourced from U.S. Department of Labor disclosure files. Data covers fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Metro assignment uses the Census Bureau's July 2023 CBSA county delineation plus principal-city crosswalk; average offered wages use the same 15k–1M annualization sanity band as employer, occupation, and state pages. These records do not establish USCIS petition outcomes, hiring, or actual compensation.
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