EMPLOYMENT TYPE MIX · DOL LCA DATA

Costco Wholesale Corporation H-1B New Employment

Of Costco Wholesale Corporation's 374 certified H-1B filings with a stated employment type (FY2021–2026), 4% are new employment at a median of $150K/year. The rest are extensions, transfers and amendments for workers already sponsored.

New Employment

New-Hire Filings

$150K

Median, New Hires

$147K

Median, Renewals

Is Costco Wholesale Corporation Hiring New H-1B Workers?

Mostly no. At 4%, the large majority of Costco Wholesale Corporation'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 Costco Wholesale Corporation

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

15 filings · 4%

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

70 filings · 18.7%

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

114 filings · 30.5%

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

32 filings · 8.6%

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

143 filings · 38.2%

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 Costco Wholesale Corporation's 374 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

0% of 22

FY2023

0% of 51

FY2024

7.4% of 136

FY2025

3% of 132

FY2026

3% of 33

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 Costco Wholesale Corporation Hiring Into?

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

Role	New-Hire Filings	Median Wage
Software Developers	12	$143K
Data Scientists	2	$180K
Database Architects	1	$171K

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 Costco Wholesale Corporation with annual wages between $30K and $1M. Shares are of the 374 filings that tick at least one employment-type box; the remaining 25.3% of Costco Wholesale Corporation's 501 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.