US Work Visa & Salary Disclosures (H-1B, PERM, LCA)

What you get

• S — California snapshot: 1,814,772 disclosure records
• M — Latest year, all programs: 915,005 records
• L — Longitudinal full pack: 14,535,607 records (FY2008+)
• Employer, job title, wage, worksite and case status fields
• Data dictionary, datasheet and QA report included

Sample preview

First 50 rows of the real free-sample file — the identical schema you get in every package. Click a column to sort, or filter across all rows.

Free sample not yet available for this dataset — request one via the contact form.

Coverage statistics

Records

14,535,607

Employers

572,824

Countries

1

Fields

92

Time coverage

2007-10-01 – 2026-03-31

Largest package

1.8 GB

Available packages

Real contents of the current builds — row counts, sizes and checksums come from the packaging manifest, not estimates.

Built from the 2026-08 full run: 106 official source files, FY2008-FY2026, LCA/H-1B + PERM + H-2A/H-2B disclosure data plus USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub (see pipelines/visa_salaries).

Free Open Data — full downloads

This dataset is part of the DataForge Open Data program: the upstream license (Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: public domain, U.S. federal government work (17 U.S.C. §105)) permits free redistribution, so the complete packages below are free — no signup. Please cite DataForge (data.zalize.com) with a backlink when you use or share this data.

License: Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream data: public domain, U.S. federal government work (17 U.S.C. §105) · Attribution: DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from official US DOL/USCIS disclosure files

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 5 packages, 10.1 GB total , 17,265,384 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

How to get this data

All packages are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub: free/open packages live in a public dataset repo (direct downloads, no signup); paid or restricted editions are delivered from a private repo with token access after approval.

# Download the whole dataset repo (hf CLI — pip install -U huggingface_hub)
hf download zalizedata/us-work-visa-salary-dataset --repo-type dataset --local-dir us-work-visa-salary-dataset

Protocol access (hf://, resolve links, token auth for private repos) is documented in the developer docs →

Pricing

AI-training use requires the AI-Training tier (1.5× base); redistribution licensing is quoted individually. Annual subscriptions get 2 months free. License details →

Update frequency & delivery

• Sources: official DOL OFLC disclosure files and USCIS H-1B data.
• Subscriptions deliver refreshed packages as new disclosure files are published.
• Every package ships with a MANIFEST (row counts, bytes, sha256).

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

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