EMPLOYMENT TYPE MIX · DOL LCA DATA

Food and Drug Administration H-1B New Employment

Of Food and Drug Administration's 144 certified H-1B filings with a stated employment type (FY2021–2026), 37.5% are new employment at a median of $119K/year. The rest are extensions, transfers and amendments for workers already sponsored.

37.5%
New Employment
54
New-Hire Filings
$119K
Median, New Hires
$129K
Median, Renewals

Is Food and Drug Administration Hiring New H-1B Workers?

Yes. At 37.5%, Food and Drug Administration 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 Food and Drug Administration

New employmentA worker not already on H-1B with this employer, the route in from outside
54 filings · 37.5%
Continuation / extensionExtending an existing H-1B for someone already on staff
67 filings · 46.5%
Change of employerTaking on a worker who already holds H-1B elsewhere
7 filings · 4.9%
Amended petitionChanging the terms of an existing petition, such as a new work site
15 filings · 10.4%
Change at same employerA material change to the same worker's existing role
1 filings · 0.7%
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 Food and Drug Administration's 144 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
20% of 10
FY2023
41.9% of 31
FY2024
39% of 59
FY2025
36% of 25
FY2026
36.8% of 19

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 Food and Drug Administration Hiring Into?

Job titles on Food and Drug Administration's new-employment filings specifically, which is what it is actually growing rather than merely maintaining.

RoleNew-Hire FilingsMedian Wage
Biostatisticians23$130K
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists17$114K
Bioinformatics Scientists6$78K
Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers5$116K
Epidemiologists1$118K
Microbiologists1$85K
Molecular and Cellular Biologists1$79K

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 Food and Drug Administration with annual wages between $30K and $1M, combining 2 legal-name spellings DOL records for this employer. Shares are of the 144 filings that tick at least one employment-type box; the remaining 31.1% of Food and Drug Administration's 209 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.