EMPLOYMENT TYPE MIX · DOL LCA DATA

California Department of Transportation H-1B New Employment

Of California Department of Transportation's 292 certified H-1B filings with a stated employment type (FY2022–2026), 61% are new employment at a median of $87K/year. The rest are extensions, transfers and amendments for workers already sponsored.

61%
New Employment
178
New-Hire Filings
$87K
Median, New Hires
$104K
Median, Renewals

Is California Department of Transportation Hiring New H-1B Workers?

Yes. At 61%, California Department of Transportation files a high share of genuinely new H-1B employment, so a meaningful part of its sponsorship goes to people it has not sponsored before. That is the population an outside applicant joins.

Employment Type Breakdown at California Department of Transportation

New employmentA worker not already on H-1B with this employer, the route in from outside
178 filings · 61%
Continuation / extensionExtending an existing H-1B for someone already on staff
22 filings · 7.5%
Change of employerTaking on a worker who already holds H-1B elsewhere
19 filings · 6.5%
Amended petitionChanging the terms of an existing petition, such as a new work site
36 filings · 12.3%
Change at same employerA material change to the same worker's existing role
37 filings · 12.7%
Concurrent employmentA second, simultaneous H-1B alongside another employer
0 filings · 0%

Bars are scaled to this employer's largest category, not to 100%. Percentages are of California Department of Transportation's 292 certified filings that state an employment type. A small number of filings tick more than one box, so the shares can total slightly above 100%.

Is That Share Rising or Falling?

FY2022
50% of 20
FY2023
34.8% of 23
FY2024
63.5% of 104
FY2025
62.7% of 110
FY2026
71.4% of 35

New-employment share per fiscal year, each against that year's filings with a stated type. Bars are scaled to this employer's peak year.

What Roles Is California Department of Transportation Hiring Into?

Job titles on California Department of Transportation's new-employment filings specifically, which is what it is actually growing rather than merely maintaining.

RoleNew-Hire FilingsMedian Wage
Transportation Engineers123$89K
Electrical Engineers13$85K
Data Scientists8$76K
Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians6$79K
Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health5$79K
Civil Engineers4$113K
Transportation Planners4$75K
Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products3$72K

Why This Number Matters

Total sponsorship volume is the figure most job boards quote, and on its own it is misleading. An employer filing thousands of petitions a year can be filing almost all of them to extend people it sponsored years ago, which tells an outside applicant very little about their odds.

The new-employment share separates the two. It is the employer's own checkbox on the Labor Condition Application, not an estimate, and it identifies the filings that represent someone entering the company rather than staying in it.

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Counted from US Department of Labor LCA disclosure files (FY2022–2026) for certified petitions filed by California Department of Transportation with annual wages between $30K and $1M. Shares are of the 292 filings that tick at least one employment-type box; the remaining 14.1% of California Department of Transportation's 340 certified filings state no type and are excluded rather than counted as renewals. A certified LCA is a step toward an H-1B petition, not an approved visa.