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H-1B sponsors & wages

A snapshot of US H-1B labor-certification data: how many certifications major employers hold, and what wages they offer by occupation. Drawn from the SponsorLens API, which normalizes the US Department of Labor's OFLC disclosure files and links each record to its source.

312,017 H-1B certifications DOL OFLC source Snapshot: June 2026

How to read this data

A certification is a Labor Condition Application (LCA) the Department of Labor certified — it is not a count of workers hired or visas issued. One employer files many LCAs per role and worksite, and certification of an application is not a guarantee a visa was issued. Employer counts use name matching and may aggregate subsidiaries (e.g. "Amazon" includes Amazon Web Services). Figures cover the fiscal years in the dataset (roughly FY2024–FY2026, with FY2026 partial) and are a point-in-time snapshot. Wages are annualized from certified records; sample sizes are shown. Source: DOL OFLC public disclosure files — verify any record against its source_url via the API.

H-1B certifications by employer

Number of certified H-1B (LCA) filings on record for selected major sponsors (June 2026 snapshot). Sorted by count.

EmployerH-1B certificationsRelative
Amazon12,216
Cognizant6,676
Microsoft5,982
Apple4,396
Infosys3,808
Tata Consultancy3,682
Deloitte3,421
Meta Platforms3,163
Google3,065
JPMorgan1,852
NVIDIA1,190
Oracle627

A selection of well-known sponsors, not the full top-20 — query any employer via the API for its exact, current count.

H-1B wages by occupation

Annualized offered-wage percentiles for certified H-1B records, by SOC occupation (June 2026 snapshot). n is the sample size.

Occupation (SOC)25thMedian75th90thn
Computer & Information Systems Managers (11-3021)$155,873$194,560$222,925$238,15050
Software Engineer (15-1252)$124,800$145,000$165,000$190,084585
Data Scientists (15-2051)$112,552$135,000$157,071$186,74056
Computer Systems Analysts (15-1211)$109,600$127,712$145,800$167,400585
Electrical Engineers (17-2071)$102,191$117,652$133,658$160,03083

The offered wage is what the employer attests it will pay on the LCA; the prevailing wage (the DOL-set floor for the role and area) is also available per occupation via the API. Smaller samples (e.g. n=50) are indicative rather than definitive. Query /v1/wages for any SOC code, state, or employer.

The bigger picture: all programs

H-1B is one of six foreign-labor-certification programs SponsorLens covers — 728,649 certifications in total.

ProgramCertifications
H-1B (specialty occupations)312,017
PERM (permanent labor certification)299,373
H-2A (seasonal agricultural)64,174
H-2B (seasonal non-agricultural)42,505
E-3 (Australian specialty)7,827
H-1B1 (Chile/Singapore specialty)2,753
Total728,649

Query this data yourself

Every figure on this page comes from the SponsorLens API. Check whether any company sponsors, and how much it pays:

Does NVIDIA sponsor H-1B?

curl -X GET "https://sponsorlens-h-1b-labor-cert-api.p.rapidapi.com/v1/certifications?employer=nvidia&program=h-1b&limit=1" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Key: YOUR_KEY_HERE" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Host: sponsorlens-h-1b-labor-cert-api.p.rapidapi.com"

See the SponsorLens docs, the API vs. DOL data comparison, or the OpenAPI spec ↗.

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