Side-by-side comparison

Microsoft Corporation vs AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC (VA)

A direct H-1B sponsorship comparison built from the same DOL Labor Condition Application data that drives every page on H1B Report. Total filings, outcome rates, top occupations and yearly demand side-by-side.

Summary

Amazon.com Services LLC and Microsoft Corporation are both major H-1B sponsors. Between 2020 and 2025, Amazon filed 30,468 H-1B labor condition applications with a 99.81% certification rate and 0.02% denial rate. Microsoft Corporation filed 21,956 applications with a 99.6% certification rate and 0.01% denial rate.

Amazon leads on overall filing volume by roughly 39%, submitting nearly 9,000 more LCAs than Microsoft over the same period. Both employers achieved near-universal approval rates above 99%, indicating strong compliance with H-1B requirements. Microsoft achieved a marginally lower denial rate at 0.01% versus Amazon's 0.02%, though the absolute difference is minimal.

Amazon vs Microsoft H-1B
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Entity A

Microsoft Corporation

WARank #6FEIN 91-1144442

Entity B

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC (VA)

VARank #3FEIN 82-0544687

Key metrics

All percentages are share of total LCAs filed by each sponsor.

Metric	Microsoft Corporation	AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC (VA)
Total filings	21,956	30,468▲
Certified %	99.60%	99.81%▲
Denied %	0.01%▲	0.02%
Withdrawn %	0.00%	0.14%
Cert-withdrawn %	0.39%	0.03%
Rank	#6	#3▲
Active years	FY2020–FY2025	FY2020–FY2025
Worksite state	WA	VA