Employer record no. 696

Southwest Airlines Co.

US DOL LCA disclosure data, FY2020 to FY2026

Total LCA filings

568

Certified

552

Denied

FY2025 filings

123

Filings by fiscal year

* partial fiscal year; quarters still being published by DOL

Peer rank

#39 of 4,681 other employers by filings

Senior titles at entry-level pay

0.0% of senior-titled filings at Level I

0 of 141 certified filings with a senior, lead or people-manager title, FY2024 to date, were at the lowest prevailing-wage tier. Ranking · Method

The ledger

Fiscal year	Filed	Certified	Denied	Avg offered wage	Avg prevailing
FY2020	29	25	2	$110,920	$109,962
FY2021	31	31	0	$121,753	$118,303
FY2022	153	150	0	$122,787	$119,767
FY2023	88	81	0	$126,217	$123,873
FY2024	104	103	1	$132,684	$130,722
FY2025	123	122	0	$142,818	$141,814
FY2026 *	40	40	0	$144,083	$141,375

What they file for

sr. software engineer$140,08294
sr. system engineer$136,26357
senior software engineer$130,08744
software engineer$111,16239
tech lead software engineer$143,13527
sr. technology analyst$126,44222
system engineer$109,44622
sr software engineer$138,44418

Where

dallas, tx563
dalllas, tx2
aurora, il1
dalas, tx1
irving, tx1

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Certification rate 97.2%How these numbers are computed