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The Vanguard Group, Inc.

Malvern, Pennsylvania · NAICS 525910 · 12,500 employees reported · 696 federal records

OSHA: 1 insp.Injuries: no recordLabor: no recordImmigration: 470 LCAContracts: not listed

The Vanguard Group, Inc. is an employer in Malvern, Pennsylvania in Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles. Federal records hold 1 OSHA inspection, 470 labor condition applications and 225 PERM applications.

OSHA opened 1 inspection at The Vanguard Group, Inc. sites in Pennsylvania since 2016, issuing 1 citation. Current penalties total $0, $0 per inspection, below the national figure of $3,754. No citation is recorded as contested.

It filed 470 labor condition applications with OFLC across fiscal years 2025–2026, covering 470 worker positions. The median offered wage is $149,600 a year against a median prevailing wage of $135,589, in line with the median across all employers for its most common occupation ($138,494). The most common prevailing wage level is Level IV (61% of filings).

OFLC records 225 PERM labor certification applications from the employer with a median offered wage of $136,723; the employer reported 12,500 employees on payroll.

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date. Enforcement data through 14 Sep 2026.

1inspections since 2016
1citations issued0 serious, willful or repeat
$0current penaltiesinitial $0
0inspections with a contested citation1 with final orders on all

Inspections by year

2019
Inspections opened per year; 2019: 1 citations, $0.

Compared with industry, state and nation

MeasureThis employerNAICS 525PennsylvaniaUS
Citations per inspection1.00.81.51.9
Current penalty per inspection$0$920$4,475$3,754
Share of inspections with a contested citation0%—4%8%
Share of inspections with final orders on every citation100%—50%56%

Inspections with no citations count as "issued" with zero citations. Industry and state figures cover every inspection in the enforcement data since 2016, including employers without a page.

Citations by standard

StandardSubjectCitations
1910.1200Hazard communication1

Standard numbers as the record labels them (29 CFR section; 5(a)(1) is the General Duty Clause). State-plan agencies such as Cal/OSHA cite their own codes, which appear here as recorded. Counted from the first twelve citations of each inspection.

Inspections

OpenedTypeScopeCitationsCurrent penaltyStatusCited standards
29 May 2019Referral · HealthPartial1$0Final order1910.1200(f)(5)(ii)

Status is per inspection: "Contested" when any citation has a contest date and "Final order" when every citation has a final order date; "Issued" otherwise. Violation types: S serious, W willful, R repeat. Each date links to the inspection detail on osha.gov.

Injuries OSHA Injury Tracking Application, Form 300A

Establishments submit their own Form 300A summaries; OSHA publishes the data as submitted and does not verify it. Rates are per 100 full-time workers (cases × 200,000 ÷ hours worked). Calendar years 2023–2025.

No Form 300A summary for this employer in Pennsylvania is in the Injury Tracking Application data for 2023, 2024, 2025. Only establishments in covered industries with 20 or more employees (100 or more in some industries) must submit.

Labor Wage and Hour Division

The Wage and Hour Division publishes concluded compliance actions since fiscal year 2005; amounts are back wages the employer agreed to pay and civil money penalties assessed, as recorded at case conclusion. Data through 15 Jun 2026.

No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names this employer in Pennsylvania in the data since fiscal year 2005.

Immigration Office of Foreign Labor Certification

Employer-specific case information was provided to OFLC by employers who submitted foreign labor certification applications. These are not employer responses to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' survey. Wage levels I–IV are as the employer stated on the application. LCA data through 30 Jun 2026; PERM through 30 Jun 2026.

H-1B labor condition applications

470applications, FY2025–2026470 worker positions
99%certified0 denied, 3 withdrawn
$149,600median offered wage (annualised)prevailing $135,589
0%filed as H-1B dependentno willful-violator flag

Applications by fiscal year

FY2025FY2026 (to date)
Labor condition applications by fiscal year of decision; FY2025: 288 certified, 0 denied · FY2026: 179 certified, 0 denied. The latest fiscal year is partial.

Prevailing wage levels

Level I 0%Level II 5%Level III 12%Level IV 61%Not stated 22%

MeasureThis employerSOC 15-1252PennsylvaniaUS
Median offered wage$149,600$138,494$115,472$122,221
Offered wage, 25th–75th percentile$139,396–$165,000$112,923–$170,239——
Share at Level I or II5%53%56%56%

Wages annualised from the rate and unit on the application (hourly × 2,080). Medians use up to 400 sampled applications per employer. The occupation column is the employer's most common SOC code, Software Developers, across all employers.

Top job titles

Job titleFilingsMedian wage
Application Engineer III53$140,403
Data Engineer, Specialist46$142,743
Application Engineer - III41$146,423
Application Engineering Technical Lead - II25$163,357
Data Analyst, Specialist23$134,820
Application Engineering Technical Lead II16$157,903
Cloud Security Engineer, Specialist13$150,000
Data Scientist, Specialist11$157,646
Cloud Engineer, Specialist10$147,555
Machine Learning Engineer, Specialist9$165,056
Application Engineering Technical Lead - I8$152,469
Platform Engineer, Specialist8$143,938

Occupations (SOC)

OccupationFilingsSOC median wage
Software Developers162$138,494
Database Administrators68$112,690
Data Scientists56$123,741
Computer Systems Analysts35$106,553
Computer Occupations, All Other34$114,808
Database Architects25$139,725
Statisticians20$127,075
Computer and Information Systems Managers18$200,006

Worksite states

Pennsylvania 327 · Texas 77 · North Carolina 53 · South Carolina 5 · Arizona 3 · New Jersey 2 · Kansas 1 · Florida 1

Visa classes: H-1B 463, E-3 Australian 7. Applications are attributed to the employer's state on the form (Pennsylvania); worksites may be elsewhere.

PERM labor certification (green card sponsorship)

225PERM applications, FY2024–2026
100%certified0 denied, 1 withdrawn
$136,723median offered wage
12,500employees on payroll, as stated
FY2024FY2025FY2026 (to date)
PERM applications by fiscal year of decision; FY2024: 3 certified, 0 denied · FY2025: 102 certified, 0 denied · FY2026: 119 certified, 0 denied. FY2024 covers the new Form 9089 only; the latest fiscal year is partial.

Top PERM job titles

Job titleApplications
Application Engineer III73
Data Engineer, Specialist17
Application Engineering Technical Lead II8
Application Engineering Technical Lead - II8
Data Analyst, Specialist7
Cloud Security Engineer, Specialist7
Application Engineering Technical Lead - I7
Cloud Engineer, Specialist5
Senior Data Engineer4
Platform Engineer, Specialist3

Contracts USAspending.gov

USAspending recipient totals are federal contract obligations reported by awarding agencies for the latest twelve months; a recipient profile is a company-level record, not a per-state one. Retrieved 1 Oct 2026.

Not among the top 3,903 federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending for the latest twelve months. Smaller awards can be searched on USAspending.gov.

Questions and answers

Has OSHA inspected The Vanguard Group, Inc.?

Yes. OSHA records 1 inspection at The Vanguard Group, Inc. sites in Pennsylvania since 2016, most recently opened 29 May 2019.

Were there penalties, and are they final?

1 citation with current penalties totalling $0. 1 inspection has a final order on every citation, 0 have a contested citation and 0 are recorded as issued. Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date.

Did the Labor Department find back wages due from The Vanguard Group, Inc.?

No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names The Vanguard Group, Inc. in Pennsylvania in the data since fiscal year 2005.

Does The Vanguard Group, Inc. sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?

It filed 470 labor condition applications in fiscal years 2025–2026; 467 were certified. The median offered wage is $149,600 a year; the most common job title is Application Engineer III.

Does The Vanguard Group, Inc. sponsor green cards (PERM)?

OFLC records 225 PERM applications in fiscal years 2024–2026, 224 of them certified.

Does The Vanguard Group, Inc. hold federal contracts?

It is not among the top federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending; smaller awards are not covered on this site.

Have there been union elections at The Vanguard Group, Inc.?

NLRB election results are not loaded on this site at present, so this page cannot say either way. The NLRB publishes recent election results and a case search on nlrb.gov.

Is this the same company as the one I am looking for?

Records are matched by normalised name and state. Subsidiaries, franchisees and other states' entities have their own records. See the methodology for how matching works.

Provenance

OSHA inspections and violations: US Department of Labor enforcement data, data.dol.gov, through 14 Sep 2026, inspections opened since 2016. Injury summaries: OSHA Injury Tracking Application Form 300A data, calendar years 2023, 2024, 2025. Wage and Hour compliance actions: data.dol.gov, concluded cases through 15 Jun 2026. LCA and PERM: OFLC disclosure files, fiscal years 2025–2026 through 30 Jun 2026. Federal contracts: USAspending recipient API, latest twelve months at 1 Oct 2026. NLRB election results are not loaded in this build. US government works, public domain; USAspending data is released under CC0. Page built 1 Oct 2026; errors in processing are corrected at the next build (corrections). Disputes about a record go to the agency that holds it.