Adtran H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Networking & hardware · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Huntsville, AL HQ🌐 adtran.com
Does Adtran sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Adtran has filed 90 H-1B LCAs and 15 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Adtran filed 18 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $124,128, about 2% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 2 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) | 10 | $122k |
| FY2025 | 8 | $133k |
| FY2024 | 9 | $132k |
| FY2023 | 8 | $112k |
| FY2022 | 8 | $122k |
| FY2021 | 5 | $115k |
| FY2020 | 10 | $90k |
| FY2019 | 13 | $115k |
| FY2018 | 7 | $97k |
| FY2017 | 12 | $77k |
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
- 1Software Development Engineer8$102k
- 2CPQ Programmer Analyst, Adv4$125k
- 3Design Verification Test Engineer, Advanced4$115k
- 4Principal Software Engineer4$138k
- 5Software Development Engineer, Advanced4$126k
- 6Software Development Engineer, Career4$104k
- 7Design Verification Test Engineer3$82k
- 8Manager, Engineering3$173k
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) | 1 | $148k |
| FY2025 | 1 | $138k |
| FY2024 | 1 | $129k |
| FY2023 | 1 | $121k |
| FY2021 | 2 | $129k |
| FY2020 | 2 | $107k |
| FY2019 | 2 | $75k |
| FY2018 | 1 | $49k |
| FY2017 | 4 | $84k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 536
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 185
- applications
- Most recent grant
- September 2, 2025
- Top area
- Transmission of digital information188
Pay against the local market
Adtran’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 101% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Adtran pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | Huntsville, AL | 25 | $98,616 | $109,611 | 90% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | Huntsville, AL | 13 | $102,437 | $100,695 | 102% |
| Marketing Managers | Huntsville, AL | 6 | $78,102 | $152,815 | 51% |
| Computer Systems Analysts | Dallas, TX | 4 | $125,326 | $120,840 | 104% |
| Software Developers | Atlanta, GA | 4 | $118,166 | $130,830 | 90% |
| Computer User Support Specialists | Huntsville, AL | 3 | $59,833 | $43,273 | 138% |
| Software Developers | Portland, OR | 3 | $113,020 | $107,767 | 105% |
| Software Developers | Dallas, TX | 3 | $112,726 | $131,490 | 86% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | Birmingham, AL | 2 | $172,887 | $135,100 | 128% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | Huntsville, AL | 2 | $132,579 | $139,125 | 95% |
About Adtran
Adtran is a networking & hardware company based in Huntsville, AL. It was founded in 1985 and has about 2,045 employees worldwide. It is listed on Nasdaq as ADTN.
- Legal name
- ADTRAN Holdings, Inc.
- Listed
- Nasdaq: ADTN
- Sponsoring since
- FY2017 or earlier
- Headquarters
- 901 Explorer Blvd, Huntsville, AL 35806
- Industry
- Networking & hardware
- Employees (US, est)
- 847 (2024)
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1B +17% from $923M
- Net income FY2025
- $-46M +90% from $-460M
- R&D FY2025
- $204M (19% of revenue)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA Software & Networking | 172 | 12 | $104k | 1 | — |
| Aviatrix Systems | 172 | 23 | $180k | 4 | — |
| Mellanox Technologies | 172 | 28 | $167k | 16 | 100% |
| Adtran | 90 | 18 | $124k | 6 | — |
| Atrix Networx | 89 | 5 | $106k | 5 | — |
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