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Cognizant Worldwide Limited

Employer · New Jersey, United States

Employer address
New Jersey, United States
Applications on record
639
FY2025 applications
18
FY2026 to 30 June
3
Programmes
LCA
Certified (last three years)
100.0%
Median offered wage
$118,851
Most common occupation
Computer Occupations, All Other
H-1B dependent (as declared)
Yes
Certified100.0%of decided applications, last three years
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year

Cognizant Worldwide Limited appears in 639 applications filed with the U.S. Department of Labor between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2026 (to 30 June). In fiscal 2025 it filed 18.

Applications by fiscal year — Cognizant Worldwide Limited

261522FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
261522FY2019FY2021FY2023FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY20191
FY2020522
FY202140
FY202241
FY20236
FY20248
FY202518
FY2026*3
Fiscal yearLCA
FY2026*3
FY202518
FY20248
FY20236
FY202241
FY202140
FY2020522
FY20191
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

Where the jobs are

Worksite of each application as filed (first worksite where several are listed).

Cognizant Worldwide Limited: applications by worksite state

17+18+28+39+51+
17+18+28+39+51+
Data table
StateApplications
TX80
NJ72
NC52
IL51
CA40
VA40
MN39
AZ37
GA30
CT28
PA22
NY22
FL18
OH18
MA17
Worksite states
  1. Texas80
  2. New Jersey72
  3. North Carolina52
  4. Illinois51
  5. California40
  6. Virginia40
  7. Minnesota39
  8. Arizona37
  9. Georgia30
  10. Connecticut28
Worksite cities
  1. Plano, TX36
  2. Saint Paul, MN27
  3. Phoenix, AZ19
  4. Richmond, VA17
  5. Chicago, IL17
  6. Charlotte, NC16
  7. Cary, NC15
  8. Hartford, CT13
  9. Irving, TX12
  10. New York City, NY11
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

What they hire for and pay

Occupations, job titles and offered wages as stated on the applications.

Occupations (SOC 2018)
  1. Computer Occupations, All Other186
  2. Computer Systems Analysts166
  3. Software Developers142
  4. Operations Research Analysts86
  5. Computer Network Architects17
  6. Management Analysts8
  7. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers8
  8. Database Administrators7
Job titles on labor condition applications
  1. Senior Systems Analyst JC6058
  2. Manager JC5054
  3. Senior Manager JC45 - Operations Research Analysts36
  4. Associate Director JC40 - Operations Research Analysts33
  5. Senior Manager JC4526
  6. Senior Manager JC45 - Software Developers, Systems Software25
  7. Associate Director JC40 - Software Developers, Systems Softw23
  8. Senior Manager JC45 - Information Technology Project Manager22

Offered annual wage, FY2024–FY2026, 10th to 90th percentile

Median $118,851; middle half $109,886 to $141,898 · median prevailing wage $118,851 (marker) · 29 applications.

$80k$105k$130k$155k$180k
$80k$105k$130k$155k$180k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level III13
  2. Level IV16
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

H-1B petitions decided by USCIS

Approvals and denials of Form I-129 petitions, by USCIS fiscal year. Linked by employer name, state and the last four digits of the tax ID.

Approved H-1B petitions (initial + continuing)

2141FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023
2141FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023
Data table
FY202041
FY202118
FY202219
FY202311
Fiscal yearInitial approvalsInitial denialsContinuing approvalsContinuing denials
FY20239020
FY202270123
FY202100181
FY202010401
Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services — H-1B Employer Data Hub (FY2009–FY2023)Data as at 30 Jun 2026

Records under the same legal name

Other employer records in the filings with exactly this name. Each is kept separate: before FY2024 the filings carry no employer tax number, so records are grouped by name and state, and no official identifier shows that these are the same company.

RecordStateApplicationsYears
Cognizant Worldwide LimitedTexas468FY2019–FY2020
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

Among employers in New Jersey

Cognizant Worldwide Limited has 639 work visa applications on record (FY2019–FY2026), ranking #327 of 9,122 sponsoring employers in New Jersey and #2,243 of 168,030 in the United States; that is 0.05% of the applications filed by employers based in New Jersey.

Rank in New Jersey
327 of 9,122
Rank in the United States
2,243 of 168,030
Share of New Jersey's applications
0.05%
Employers in the same industry group (NAICS 541) in New Jersey
4,569
Largest sponsoring employers in New Jersey
  1. Ernst & Young U.S. LLP107,853
  2. Wipro Limited89,106
  3. Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited48,358
  4. Compunnel Software Group, Inc26,843
  5. L&T Technology Services Limited16,730
  6. Hexaware Technologies, Inc.16,089
  7. Satyam Computer Services Ltd13,600
  8. Mindtree Limited11,426
  9. Marlabs, Inc10,977
  10. Igate Technologies Inc.8,474
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

Same legal name in other countries

Records in other countries' official lists that carry exactly this legal name. They are linked, not merged: no shared official identifier shows that they are the same organisation, and a group's companies in different countries are often separate legal entities.

CountryRecordOfficial list
United KingdomCognizant Worldwide LimitedRegister of licensed sponsors
Source: Visa Atlas, exact legal-name match between the U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data, the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors and the ESDC list of LMIA employersData as at 30 Jun 2026

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