Trending companies
The H-1B sponsors worth watching, AI labs and venture-backed startups. Membership is hand-picked; everything about each company (filings, the roles they hire, and pay) is pulled live, FY2017–2026.
🥭 MANGOES
All 10 MANGOES →
Meta
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
H-1B total
44,103
FY2025
6,635
▲8%
Median pay
$203k
Microsoft
Windows, Azure, Office & Copilot
H-1B total
73,019
FY2025
9,302
▼2%
Median pay
$171k
Apple
iPhone, Mac & services
H-1B total
36,284
FY2025
6,414
▲68%
Median pay
$176k
Amazon
E-commerce, AWS & devices
H-1B total
147,526
FY2025
23,238
▲7%
Median pay
$153k
Nvidia
GPUs & AI compute
H-1B total
8,704
FY2025
1,892
▲39%
Median pay
$185k
Netflix
Streaming & studios
H-1B total
2,490
FY2025
338
▲1%
Median pay
$226k
🤖 AI companies
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Anthropic
Claude AI assistant
H-1B total
302
FY2025
116
▲123%
Median pay
$300k
OpenAI
ChatGPT & the GPT models
H-1B total
438
FY2025
117
▲36%
Median pay
$310k
Databricks
Data + AI lakehouse
H-1B total
1,754
FY2025
388
▲18%
Median pay
$167k
Scale AI
Data labeling for AI
H-1B total
232
FY2025
79
▲65%
Median pay
$180k
Cohere
Enterprise LLMs
H-1B total
38
FY2025
10
▼17%
Median pay
$235k
Mistral AI
Open-weight LLMs
H-1B total
31
FY2025
15
▲275%
Median pay
$260k
🚀 Rising startups
All 14 rising startups →
Stripe
Payments infrastructure
H-1B total
1,882
FY2025
292
▼1%
Median pay
$163k
Rippling
HR + IT + payroll platform
H-1B total
402
FY2025
97
▲35%
Median pay
$234k
Brex
Corporate cards & spend
H-1B total
386
FY2025
34
▼36%
Median pay
$175k
Ramp
Corporate cards & spend management
H-1B total
99
FY2025
30
▲3%
Median pay
$155k
Plaid
Bank-data connectivity
H-1B total
269
FY2025
42
▼2%
Median pay
$189k
Deel
Global payroll & EOR
H-1B total
191
FY2025
81
▲72%
Median pay
$136k
🟠 Backed by YC
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Airbnb
Home & travel marketplace
H-1B total
2,431
FY2025
240
▲33%
Median pay
$191k
DoorDash
Food & local delivery
H-1B total
3,058
FY2025
542
▲0%
Median pay
$175k
Coinbase
Crypto exchange
H-1B total
1,140
FY2025
186
▲92%
Median pay
$183k
Dropbox
File sync & storage
H-1B total
1,315
FY2025
119
▲17%
Median pay
$187k
Instacart
Grocery delivery
H-1B total
1,031
FY2025
152
▼14%
Median pay
$190k
Reddit
Communities & discussion
H-1B total
517
FY2025
100
▲59%
Median pay
$255k
🔬 Chipmakers
All 20 chipmakers →Nvidia
GPUs & AI compute
H-1B total
8,704
FY2025
1,892
▲39%
Median pay
$185k
Intel
x86 CPUs & foundry
H-1B total
26,771
FY2025
2,827
▼25%
Median pay
$128k
AMD
CPUs, GPUs & data-center chips
H-1B total
5,336
FY2025
841
▲9%
Median pay
$150k
Qualcomm
Mobile SoCs & modems
H-1B total
18,645
FY2025
2,249
▲3%
Median pay
$136k
Broadcom
Networking & wireless chips
H-1B total
1,031
FY2025
93
▲21%
Median pay
$174k
Micron
Memory: DRAM & NAND
H-1B total
4,765
FY2025
652
▲39%
Median pay
$125k
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