Daily H-1B Decision-Maker Report · #2 by certified FY2026 filings
October 21, 2026 · Public records only

Google LLC: Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer, Alphabet and Google

This is the person who holds the top job at an organization that filed 7,339 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
7,339
Requested positions (ceiling)
8,626
Level I (entry) wage
1.7%
Median offered salary
$193,000
USCIS approvals FY2026
1,912

Who is responsible

Google LLC is the legal entity that filed these applications. It is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., whose executives and board chair are named below.

Sundar Pichai
Chief Executive Officer, Alphabet and Google · Chief Executive · Google LLC
Source: Alphabet Inc. 2026 Definitive Proxy Statement (DEF 14A, April 24, 2026) (dated April 24, 2026) · checked October 18, 2026
John L. Hennessy
Chair of the Board of Directors, Alphabet Inc. · Board Chair · Google LLC
Source: Alphabet Inc. 2026 Definitive Proxy Statement (DEF 14A, April 24, 2026) (dated April 24, 2026) · checked October 18, 2026

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 Leadership changes; if something here is out of date, tell us in the comments below and we will correct it.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 7,339 certified filings

Level I (entry)
1.7%
76 filings
Level II
61.6%
2,833 filings
Level III
15.6%
719 filings
Level IV (most experienced)
21.1%
972 filings

Percentages are of the 4,600 filings that report a wage level; 2,739 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 Developers4,92567.1%
Information Technology Project Managers3424.7%
Computer and Information Research Scientists3124.3%
Data Scientists2703.7%
Computer Hardware Engineers2273.1%
Sales Engineers1742.4%
Business Intelligence Analysts1532.1%
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists891.2%

Where the work sites are

StateFilingsShare
CA5,10569.6%
WA81711.1%
NY75910.3%
TX1902.6%
GA891.2%
MA771.0%

Open jobs

The organization's official jobs site is https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/. 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 105 notices that match this organization's name, covering 2,193 employees in total, of which 129 are in notices dated on or after October 1, 2025 (the start of the FY2026 H-1B filing period).

StateNoticesEmployeesSince Oct 1, 2025Latest notice
California1042,14177 (7 notices)Jan 26, 2026
Washington15252 (1 notice)Aug 5, 2026

Largest notices:

Notice dateEmployer as named in the noticePlaceEmployeesState record
Aug 5, 2026GoogleVarious locations in Washington52WA agency file
Jan 22, 2024Google US-MTV-RLS1100 Mayfield Ave Mountain View CA 9404357CA agency file
Jan 10, 2024Google US-MTV-421600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Building 42 Mountain View CA 9404384CA agency file
Jan 10, 2024Google US-MTV-411600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Building 41 Mountain View CA 9404380CA agency file
Jan 10, 2024Google US-SVL-CRSM12251225 Crossman Avenue Sunnyvale CA 9408959CA agency file
Dec 8, 2023Google325 Gladys Avenue Mountain View CA 9404373CA agency file
Jan 20, 2023Google1201 Charleston Rd Mountain View CA 94043140CA agency file
Jan 20, 2023Google Playa 25865 Campus Center Drive US-PLV-H15 Playa Vista CA 90094123CA agency file
Jan 20, 2023Google100 Bay View Drive Moffet Field CA 9403562CA agency file
Jan 20, 2023Google3400 Hillview Avenue US-PAO-HV1 Palo Alto CA 9430450CA 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. 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.

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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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