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Viasat Inc.
OSHA: no recordInjuries: 3 yrLabor: no recordImmigration: 69 LCAContracts: $339M
The federal record for Viasat Inc., Carlsbad, California, consists of 69 labor condition applications, 26 PERM applications, a federal contract recipient profile and 3 years of injury summaries; the employer is classified under Telecommunications.
On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 2,756 employees and 6 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 0.2 per 100 full-time workers, lower than the pooled rate for its industry (1.4; median establishment 0.6).
It filed 69 labor condition applications with OFLC across fiscal years 2025–2026, covering 69 worker positions. The median offered wage is $154,000 a year against a median prevailing wage of $130,187, in line with the median across all employers for its most common occupation ($138,494). The most common prevailing wage level is Level II (35% of filings).
OFLC records 26 PERM labor certification applications from the employer with a median offered wage of $140,950; the employer reported 5,400 employees on payroll.
USAspending lists Viasat Inc as a parent recipient of $339M in federal contract obligations over the latest twelve months.
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.
No OSHA inspection of this employer in California appears in the enforcement data since 2016. Inspections are recorded at the establishment; sites in other states are listed under those states.
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.
Injury rate vs industry
Total recordable case rate for 2025. The industry median is the median rate across establishments with at least 20,000 hours in NAICS 517 (quartiles 0.0–4.5); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.
By year
| Year | Establishments | Employees | Hours | Deaths | Days away | Restricted/transfer | Other | TRC rate | DART rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 2,217 | 4,798,058 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2,908 | 5,261,462 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2,756 | 4,986,267 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in California. Rates are blank where fewer than 2,000 hours were reported.
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 California 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
Applications by fiscal year
Prevailing wage levels
Level I 28%Level II 35%Level III 12%Level IV 22%Not stated 4%
| Measure | This employer | SOC 15-1252 | California | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median offered wage | $154,000 | $138,494 | $156,853 | $122,221 |
| Offered wage, 25th–75th percentile | $133,250–$185,000 | $112,923–$170,239 | — | — |
| Share at Level I or II | 63% | 53% | 42% | 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 title | Filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 27 | $143,000 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 3 | $150,000 |
| System Test Engineer | 3 | $126,500 |
| Software Development Management | 3 | $279,287 |
| Data Center Engineer | 2 | — |
| Data Scientist | 2 | — |
| Principal Data Engineer | 2 | — |
| Senior Software Engineer | 2 | — |
| Analytics Engineer | 2 | — |
| Quality Assurance Web & Application Tester | 2 | — |
| Senior Kubernetes Software Engineer | 1 | — |
| Software Engineering Manager | 1 | — |
Occupations (SOC)
| Occupation | Filings | SOC median wage |
|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | 34 | $138,494 |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | 7 | $104,728 |
| Data Scientists | 7 | $123,741 |
| Computer Network Architects | 4 | $140,000 |
| Electrical Engineers | 4 | $121,459 |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | 3 | $114,808 |
| Network and Computer Systems Administrators | 3 | $97,948 |
| Database Architects | 3 | $139,725 |
Worksite states
California 41 · Texas 8 · Washington 7 · Maryland 3 · Ohio 3 · Illinois 2 · Massachusetts 2 · Pennsylvania 1
Visa classes: H-1B 69. Applications are attributed to the employer's state on the form (California); worksites may be elsewhere.
PERM labor certification (green card sponsorship)
Top PERM job titles
| Job title | Applications |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 9 |
| Data Engineer - Data Warehouses | 2 |
| System Test Engineer | 2 |
| Network Platform Engineer | 1 |
| Data Scientist - Machine Learning | 1 |
| Software Defined Networking Engineer | 1 |
| Software Engineer - Machine Learning | 1 |
| Software Development Engineer | 1 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Scrum Master | 1 |
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.
USAspending lists Viasat Inc among the 3,903 largest federal contract recipients. The full award list is on the recipient profile.
Contract obligations by fiscal year
Awarding agencies
| Agency | Obligations, FY2021–2026 | Share of the agencies shown |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $2.0B | 80% |
| General Services Administration | $497M | 19% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $17M | 1% |
| Department of State | $1.5M | 0% |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $596K | 0% |
| Department of Transportation | $281K | 0% |
The USAspending name is matched to this employer by normalised company name across all states; the total covers the whole company.
Questions and answers
Has OSHA inspected Viasat Inc.?
No OSHA inspection of Viasat Inc. in California appears in the enforcement data since 2016.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
No OSHA record, so no penalties to report.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Viasat Inc.?
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names Viasat Inc. in California in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Does Viasat Inc. sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
It filed 69 labor condition applications in fiscal years 2025–2026; 69 were certified. The median offered wage is $154,000 a year; the most common job title is Software Engineer.
Does Viasat Inc. sponsor green cards (PERM)?
OFLC records 26 PERM applications in fiscal years 2024–2026, 25 of them certified.
Does Viasat Inc. hold federal contracts?
USAspending lists it among the largest contract recipients, with $339M obligated over the latest twelve months (recipient level: parent); the largest awarding agency is the Department of Defense.
Have there been union elections at Viasat 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.