H-1B sponsorILUpdated Jun 2026

AKORN (NEW JERSEY), INC.

US H-1B Labor Condition Application activity for AKORN (NEW JERSEY), INC.. Filed 215 disclosures between FY2010 and FY2020 from worksites with a IL headquarters indicator.

Total filings

Outside top-N · FY2020

Certified

100.0%

unconditional · FY2020

Withdrawn

0.0%

withdrawn rate · FY2020

Denied

0.0%

rejection rate · FY2020

Summary

AKORN (NEW JERSEY), INC. is an Illinois-based employer with a 10-year history of H-1B sponsorship. Between 2010 and 2020, the company filed 215 H-1B petitions, with peak activity in 2017 (45 filings). In FY2020, AKORN filed 4 petitions and achieved a 100% certification rate.

The company's H-1B hiring is heavily concentrated in chemistry and related sciences. Chemists account for 139 of its 215 total filings (65%), followed by smaller cohorts of Compliance Officers (16), Industrial Engineers (14), Physicists (6), and Microbiologists (5). This profile reflects a scientific and technical workforce aligned with chemical manufacturing or pharmaceutical operations.

Across all filings from 2010–2020, AKORN achieved a 1.86% overall certification rate, with no denials or withdrawals recorded in the dataset. The drop to 4 filings in 2020 marks a significant decline from the 2015–2019 period, when annual filings ranged from 29 to 45.

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Outcome breakdown

Share of AKORN (NEW JERSEY), INC.’s LCAs by DOL case status, all fiscal years. Use the year filter above for a single-year breakdown.

Certified100.0%

Top occupations sponsored

SOC codes filed most by AKORN (NEW JERSEY), INC. across all fiscal years. Click any row to open the national salary guide.

#	SOC	Title	Filings
1	19-2031	Chemists	139
2	13-1041	Compliance Officers	16
3	17-2112	Industrial Engineers	14
4	19-2012	Physicists	6
5	19-1022	Microbiologists	5
6	15-1252	Software Developers	5
7	15-1253	Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers	4
8	11-9199	Managers, All Other	3
9	19-1029	Biological Scientists, All Other	3
10	11-9041	Architectural and Engineering Managers	2

Chemists

139

Compliance Officers

Industrial Engineers

Physicists

Microbiologists

Software Developers

Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

Managers, All Other

Biological Scientists, All Other

Architectural and Engineering Managers

Filings by fiscal year

Year-over-year H-1B filing volume — a hiring-demand signal, not headcount.

Year	Filings
FY2010	2
FY2011	4
FY2012	8
FY2013	12
FY2014	4
FY2015	33
FY2016	29
FY2017	45
FY2018	32
FY2019	42
FY2020	4

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