Daily H-1B Decision-Maker Report · #1 by certified FY2026 filings
October 21, 2026 · Public records only

Amazon: Andy Jassy, President and Chief Executive Officer

This is the person who holds the top job at an organization that filed 20,645 certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications in federal fiscal year 2026 (through June 30, 2026). The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Labor's and USCIS's own public data. Filing H-1B applications is legal; this report shows who is accountable for the organization and what the public record says about its use of the program.

Certified H-1B filings
20,645
Requested positions (ceiling)
65,323
Level I (entry) wage
23.7%
Median offered salary
$158,300
USCIS approvals FY2026
5,685

Who is responsible

Andy Jassy
President and Chief Executive Officer · Chief Executive · Amazon
Jeffrey P. Bezos
Executive Chair · Board Chair · Amazon

Names and titles are as published in the linked sources on the date checked. Leadership changes; if something here is out of date, tell us in the comments below and we will correct it.

Pay levels on 20,645 certified filings

Level I (entry)
23.7%
3,767 filings
Level II
45.6%
7,259 filings
Level III
17.0%
2,701 filings
Level IV (most experienced)
13.7%
2,179 filings

Percentages are of the 15,906 filings that report a wage level; 4,739 filings report none. For comparison, 19.4% of all certified FY2026 H-1B filings nationwide are Level I.

What roles they filed for

Occupation (DOL SOC title)FilingsShare
Software Developers10,59451.3%
Computer and Information Systems Managers1,2005.8%
Computer and Information Research Scientists1,1635.6%
Business Intelligence Analysts1,1155.4%
Data Scientists7723.7%
Information Technology Project Managers6863.3%
Project Management Specialists4052.0%
Financial and Investment Analysts3741.8%

Where the work sites are

StateFilingsShare
WA10,35050.1%
CA3,43616.6%
TX2,17710.5%
NY1,2596.1%
VA1,1535.6%
MA6153.0%

Open jobs

The organization's official jobs site is https://www.amazon.jobs/en/. It is a custom site whose postings can't be counted automatically, so we publish the link without a count. Checked October 19, 2026.

Layoffs and offshoring record

Two public records, shown next to the H-1B data above. Neither one says anything about H-1B workers. They are listed because the same organization appears in all three.

State layoff notices (WARN)

Employers planning a mass layoff or closure must notify the state. We found 154 notices that match this organization's name, covering 17,686 employees in total, of which 12,426 are in notices dated on or after October 1, 2025 (the start of the FY2026 H-1B filing period).

StateNoticesEmployeesSince Oct 1, 2025Latest notice
California1409,4907,123 (96 notices)Aug 28, 2026
New Jersey4256139 (2 notices)Oct 1, 2025
Washington107,9405,164 (6 notices)Aug 31, 2026

Largest notices:

Notice dateEmployer as named in the noticePlaceEmployeesState record
Jan 30, 2026AmazonVarious locations in Washington2,198WA agency file
Jan 28, 2026AmazonVarious locations in Washington401WA agency file
Jan 28, 2026Amazon - MAB16245 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Woodland Hills CA 91367215CA agency file
Jan 28, 2026Amazon - MAF316325 Ventura Blvd. Encino CA 91436201CA agency file
Jan 28, 2026Amazon - MAF821035 Hawthrone Blvd. Torrance CA 90503196CA agency file
Jan 28, 2026Amazon - MAB913672 Jamboree Rd. Irvine CA 92602191CA agency file
Oct 28, 2025AmazonVarious locations in Washington2,303WA agency file
May 14, 2024Amazon4601 Newcastle Drive Stockton CA 95215390CA agency file
Jan 10, 2024Twitch Interactive, Inc. SFO19 Facility350 Bush St. San Francisco CA 94104218CA agency file
Jan 18, 2023AmazonSeattle, Bellevue2,320WA agency file

A WARN notice reports a planned layoff or closure at a site. It does not say who was laid off, why, or that anyone held a visa. These come only from the state agencies' own lists, for Texas (from January 2023), California (from July 2022), New Jersey (from January 2023), Washington (searched by employer name). Other states are not included, so a total here is a floor, and an absence of notices means nothing. 2 further notices with the same employer, site and date but a different headcount are possible amendments and are left out of every total above. New Jersey lists only the month a notice was posted. Each state's notice covers workers at that state's own sites, so one round of layoffs can appear in several states' lists on the same date. This page adds up the notices as filed and does not treat them as a single event.

Legal entities counted together (20)

Filings are made by each legal entity under its own tax ID. These are grouped here as parts of Amazon.

Filing entityCertified filings
Amazon.com Services LLC13,711
Amazon Web Services, Inc.2,440
Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.2,434
Amazon Data Services, Inc1,187
Zoox Inc.347
AUDIBLE, INC.171
Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc.142
Amazon Advertising LLC124
Twitch Interactive, Inc.39
IMDb.com, Inc.13
+ 10 smaller entities

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Ceiling
"Requested positions" is the number of workers the employer listed on its applications. It is a ceiling the employer asks for on a filing, not a count of people hired.
Legal
Filing H-1B applications is lawful. Nothing on this page alleges wrongdoing. DOL's file flags none of these filings as "willful violator."
Layoffs
The layoff and offshoring records are matched to this organization by name and were each confirmed by a person. State WARN notices and DOL certifications describe job losses at the organization; they do not identify who lost a job, and they do not say that H-1B workers were involved. Putting them on the same page is not a claim that one caused the other.
Data
Source: DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification LCA disclosure file for FY2026 (cumulative through June 30, 2026), limited to H-1B, certified filings; USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, FY2026. Employers are matched by federal tax ID; the Hub publishes only the last four digits plus a name, so its figure is matched on both and may be incomplete. Page generated October 21, 2026.
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