{"slug":"company-hiring","domain":"commerce","title":"Company hiring: who is hiring, where, at what price","summary":"Employers filing for sponsored positions in a place or discipline, ranked by the seats that did not exist before.","help":"company-hiring: which employers are hiring, as JSON.\n\nRETURNS\n  One JSON object on stdout.\n\nTHE PROSPECTING QUESTION\n  Which companies filed for engineers in Austin above $180,000 since June. It\n  starts from a place, a discipline and a wage instead of from a company you\n  already knew to ask about — which is what makes it different from\n  `h1b-hiring`, reading the same records from the other end.\n\n  It is only answerable because the whole quarter is held locally: the source\n  is a 240 MB workbook with no query interface at all.\n\nRANKED ON NEW POSITIONS, NOT FILING VOLUME\n  A staffing agency renewing three hundred visas files three hundred times and\n  has added nobody. Measured: Cognizant filed 5,562 times in one fiscal year\n  for 13 new seats. By volume it is the third largest hirer in the country; by\n  seats added it hired thirteen people.\n\nWAGES ARE ANNUALISED BEFORE THEY ARE COMPARED\n  The filed rate may be hourly, weekly, monthly or annual in the same field.\n  Filtering on the raw number would silently drop every hourly filing, which is\n  most staffing agencies — an omission with a shape, easily mistaken for a\n  finding.\n\nSPONSORED HIRING IS A SUBSET OF HIRING\n  A company can hire freely without filing at all.\n\nStudies:\n  search \u003csince\u003e\n      employers filing for sponsored positions in a place or discipline, ranked by seats added\n\nJSON to stdout, so it composes: pipe to `jq` to pick a field, or `\u003e /tmp/…` to keep it.\nRun a study with no arguments — `company-hiring search` — to see what it takes.\n","example_command":"company-hiring search 2026-06-01 --state CA --role engineer","example_output":"","cost_class":"upstream-fetch","tier":"metered","billing_items":["signals_hiring"],"price_per_1k_calls":1.5,"price_is_from":false,"status":"available","commands":["company-hiring"],"studies":[{"call":"search","about":"employers filing for sponsored positions in a place or discipline, ranked by seats added","args":[{"name":"since","positional":true,"list":false,"hint":"YYYY-MM-DD"},{"name":"state","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"two letters — where the WORK is, not where the company is registered"},{"name":"city","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"worksite city"},{"name":"role","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"matched against the occupation and the job title: engineer, nurse, data scientist"},{"name":"min_annual_wage","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"dollars a year; hourly and monthly rates are normalised first"},{"name":"limit","positional":false,"list":false,"hint":"how many employers"}]}],"default_enabled":false,"first_seen":"2026-09-28T05:09:33.097255Z","enabled":false}