Daily H-1B Decision-Maker Report · #6 by certified FY2026 filings
October 20, 2026 · Public records only

Meta Platforms, Inc: Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

This is the person who holds the top job at an organization that filed 5,152 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
5,152
Requested positions (ceiling)
13,624
Level I (entry) wage
22.2%
Median offered salary
$214,032
USCIS approvals FY2026
2,492

Who is responsible

Mark Zuckerberg
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer · Chief Executive · Meta Platforms, Inc
Source: Meta DEF 14A (2026); title seen only via third-party summaries (dated April 16, 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 Leadership changes; if something here is out of date, tell us in the comments below and we will correct it.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 5,152 certified filings

Level I (entry)
22.2%
962 filings
Level II
23.5%
1,021 filings
Level III
15.5%
674 filings
Level IV (most experienced)
38.8%
1,681 filings

Percentages are of the 4,338 filings that report a wage level; 814 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 Developers2,73453.1%
Computer and Information Research Scientists70313.6%
Data Scientists3747.3%
Information Technology Project Managers1583.1%
Computer and Information Systems Managers1512.9%
Data Warehousing Specialists1482.9%
Electrical Engineers981.9%
Computer Hardware Engineers911.8%

Where the work sites are

StateFilingsShare
CA2,96557.6%
WA1,09621.3%
NY74914.5%
TX1953.8%
MA280.5%
NJ180.3%

Open jobs

The organization's official jobs site is https://www.metacareers.com/jobs. 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 123 notices that match this organization's name, covering 12,441 employees in total, of which 6,145 are in notices dated on or after October 1, 2025 (the start of the FY2026 H-1B filing period).

StateNoticesEmployeesSince Oct 1, 2025Latest notice
California1169,6064,150 (21 notices)May 22, 2026
New Jersey1114—May 1, 2023
Washington62,7211,995 (4 notices)May 22, 2026

Largest notices:

Notice dateEmployer as named in the noticePlaceEmployeesState record
May 22, 2026Meta Platforms, Inc.1 Hacker Way Menlo Park CA 940252,212CA agency file
May 22, 2026Meta Platforms, IncKing County1,395WA agency file
May 22, 2026Meta Platforms, Inc.311 Airport Boulevard Burlingame CA 94010338CA agency file
May 22, 2026Meta Platforms, Inc.1180 Discovery Way Sunnyvale CA 94089313CA agency file
Jan 19, 2026Meta Platforms, IncKing County331WA agency file
May 29, 2023Meta Platforms, Inc.250 Howard St San Francisco CA 94105304CA agency file
Nov 11, 2022Meta Platforms, Inc.260 Constitution Dr. Menlo Park CA 94025632CA agency file
Nov 11, 2022Meta Platforms, IncSeattle419WA agency file
Nov 11, 2022Meta Platforms, Inc.250 Howard St. San Francisco CA 94105362CA agency file
Nov 11, 2022Meta Platforms, IncBellevue307WA 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.

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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 20, 2026.
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Data: DOL LCA disclosure data FY2026 · USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub · Generated October 20, 2026 · GuestWorkerVisas.com