EMPLOYMENT TYPE MIX · DOL LCA DATA

Caterpillar Inc H-1B New Employment

Of Caterpillar Inc's 946 certified H-1B filings with a stated employment type (FY2021–2026), 12.5% are new employment at a median of $95K/year. The rest are extensions, transfers and amendments for workers already sponsored.

12.5%

New Employment

118

New-Hire Filings

$95K

Median, New Hires

$111K

Median, Renewals

Is Caterpillar Inc Hiring New H-1B Workers?

Mostly no. At 12.5%, the large majority of Caterpillar Inc's H-1B filings extend or amend petitions for workers it already sponsors. Its filing volume is a poor guide to how open it is to outside H-1B candidates.

Employment Type Breakdown at Caterpillar Inc

New employmentA worker not already on H-1B with this employer, the route in from outside

118 filings · 12.5%

Continuation / extensionExtending an existing H-1B for someone already on staff

329 filings · 34.8%

Change of employerTaking on a worker who already holds H-1B elsewhere

203 filings · 21.5%

Amended petitionChanging the terms of an existing petition, such as a new work site

154 filings · 16.3%

Change at same employerA material change to the same worker's existing role

145 filings · 15.3%

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 Caterpillar Inc's 946 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

21.4% of 84

FY2023

5.5% of 110

FY2024

12.9% of 373

FY2025

14.7% of 312

FY2026

0% of 67

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 Caterpillar Inc Hiring Into?

Job titles on Caterpillar Inc's new-employment filings specifically, which is what it is actually growing rather than merely maintaining.

Role	New-Hire Filings	Median Wage
Mechanical Engineers	40	$100K
Software Developers	27	$103K
Data Scientists	13	$92K
Business Intelligence Analysts	7	$90K
Electrical Engineers	6	$87K
Statisticians	4	$95K
Software Developers, Applications	4	$100K
Robotics Engineers	3	$91K

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 (FY2021–2026) for certified petitions filed by Caterpillar Inc with annual wages between $30K and $1M, combining 4 legal-name spellings DOL records for this employer. Shares are of the 946 filings that tick at least one employment-type box; the remaining 29% of Caterpillar Inc's 1,333 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.