Abbott H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Medical devices & life sciences · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Abbott Park, IL HQ🌐 abbott.com
Does Abbott sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Abbott has filed 2,164 H-1B LCAs and 537 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Abbott filed 512 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $122,000, in line with the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 179 green-card cases were decided.
H-1B pay & filings by year
Median base salary (line) and H-1B filing volume (bars), by fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | H-1B LCA filings | Median base salary |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (partial) | 233 | $123k |
| FY2025 | 279 | $122k |
| FY2024 | 268 | $118k |
| FY2023 | 202 | $114k |
| FY2022 | 274 | $113k |
| FY2021 | 257 | $100k |
| FY2020 | 167 | $97k |
| FY2019 | 153 | $96k |
| FY2018 | 153 | $105k |
| FY2017 | 178 | $95k |
A fiscal year marked partial is still in progress, so its total is lower than a complete year and the two are not comparable.
H-1B wage floor & filing outcomes
What this employer pays against the DOL legal minimum, how senior the roles are, and how the filings were decided
Roles they file for
- 1Senior Software Engineer63$125k
- 2Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist44$111k
- 3Regulatory Affairs Specialist26$85k
- 4Financial Analyst25$76k
- 5Senior Design/Product Development Engineer22$127k
- 6Quality Engineer21$85k
- 7Senior Systems Engineer21$115k
- 8Staff Software Engineer21$146k
Where they hire
Green-card (PERM) pay & filings by year
Median green-card offer (line) and PERM filing volume (bars), by fiscal year †
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| Fiscal year | PERM filings | Median base salary |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (partial) | 72 | $112k |
| FY2025 | 107 | $114k |
| FY2024 | 37 | $126k |
| FY2023 | 54 | $120k |
| FY2022 | 54 | $111k |
| FY2021 | 65 | $110k |
| FY2020 | 41 | $105k |
| FY2019 | 29 | $101k |
| FY2018 | 43 | $100k |
| FY2017 | 35 | $95k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 14
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- —
- applications
- Most recent grant
- April 4, 1967
- Top area
- Characteristic features of footwear; parts of footwear3
Pay against the local market
Abbott’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 102% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Abbott pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Engineers | Minneapolis, MN | 69 | $99,760 | $99,552 | 100% |
| Compliance Officers | San Jose, CA | 49 | $102,150 | $99,549 | 103% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 48 | $152,520 | $138,783 | 110% |
| Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers | San Francisco, CA | 48 | $128,288 | $127,182 | 101% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | Chicago, IL | 43 | $122,808 | $99,486 | 123% |
| Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers | Dallas, TX | 38 | $86,344 | $91,390 | 94% |
| Compliance Officers | San Francisco, CA | 38 | $102,522 | $99,080 | 103% |
| Industrial Engineers | San Francisco, CA | 38 | $124,341 | $130,374 | 95% |
| Software Developers | Chicago, IL | 37 | $130,046 | $121,237 | 107% |
| Software Developers | Dallas, TX | 34 | $123,803 | $121,174 | 102% |
About Abbott
Abbott is a medical devices & life sciences company based in North Chicago. It was founded in 1888 and has about 73,000 employees worldwide. It is listed on NYSE as ABT.
- Name (DOL filings)
- Abbott
- Listed
- NYSE: ABT
- Incorporated in
- Illinois
- Headquarters
- 100 Abbott Park Road, Abbott Park, IL 60064-3500
- Industry
- Medical devices & life sciences
- Employees (global)
- 115,000 (2025)
- Revenue FY2025
- $44.3B +6% from $42.0B
- Net income FY2025
- $6.5B -51% from $13.4B
- R&D FY2025
- $2.9B (7% of revenue)
Spends 7% of revenue on R&D, against a 73% median across the 122 Pharmaceutical Preparations filers we hold SEC data for.
H-1B sponsors similar to Abbott
| Employer | Filings, all years | Recent filings | Median base | New employment | Level III-IV roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVS Health | 7,977 | 2,420 | $140k | 608 | 58% |
| Elevance Health | 6,421 | 897 | $139k | 36 | 73% |
| Optum | 5,588 | 1,038 | $126k | 120 | 69% |
| Abbott | 2,164 | 512 | $122k | 110 | 48% |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1,951 | 569 | $155k | 98 | 63% |
| Becton Dickinson | 1,576 | 262 | $135k | 68 | 51% |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1,477 | 226 | $104k | 49 | 51% |
