Arm H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Semiconductors · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Cambridge, UK HQ📍 Austin, TX most H-1B filings🌐 arm.com
Does Arm sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Arm has filed 1,610 H-1B LCAs and 360 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Arm filed 552 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $154,565, about 27% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 110 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) | 261 | $157k |
| FY2025 | 291 | $155k |
| FY2024 | 168 | $151k |
| FY2023 | 164 | $130k |
| FY2022 | 127 | $134k |
| FY2021 | 109 | $110k |
| FY2020 | 138 | $107k |
| FY2019 | 127 | $110k |
| FY2018 | 118 | $110k |
| FY2017 | 107 | $105k |
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
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) | 66 | $170k |
| FY2025 | 44 | $173k |
| FY2024 | 19 | $151k |
| FY2023 | 14 | $134k |
| FY2022 | 55 | $135k |
| FY2021 | 33 | $130k |
| FY2020 | 29 | $132k |
| FY2019 | 23 | $108k |
| FY2018 | 41 | $100k |
| FY2017 | 36 | $99k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 2
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 1
- applications
- Most recent grant
- January 31, 2012
- Top area
- Electronic memory devices1
Pay against the local market
Arm’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 | Arm pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electronics Engineers | Austin, TX | 633 | $137,614 | $128,886 | 107% |
| Software Developers | Austin, TX | 160 | $119,552 | $123,323 | 97% |
| Electronics Engineers | Phoenix, AZ | 119 | $109,225 | $125,107 | 87% |
| Computer Hardware Engineers | Austin, TX | 94 | $111,927 | $125,726 | 89% |
| Electronics Engineers | San Jose, CA | 74 | $161,477 | $163,082 | 99% |
| Electronics Engineers | San Diego, CA | 52 | $143,632 | $153,110 | 94% |
| Software Developers | San Jose, CA | 50 | $158,455 | $174,247 | 91% |
| Architectural and Engineering Managers | Austin, TX | 32 | $183,279 | $165,680 | 111% |
| Electronics Engineers | Durham, NC | 23 | $139,808 | $134,604 | 104% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | Austin, TX | 18 | $166,398 | $163,602 | 102% |
About Arm
Arm designs the CPU architecture and cores that power almost every smartphone and a growing share of laptops and data centers, licensing its designs rather than making chips. Its US offices hire and sponsor engineers.
- Name (DOL filings)
- Arm
- Listed
- Nasdaq: ARM
- Incorporated in
- X0
- Headquarters
- 110 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge, X0, Cb1 9nj
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Employees (US, est)
- 1,539 (2024)
- Revenue FY2026
- $4.9B +23% from $4.0B
- Net income FY2026
- $904M +14% from $792M
- R&D FY2026
- $2.8B (56% of revenue)
Spends 56% of revenue on R&D, against a 19% median across the 65 Semiconductors & Related Devices filers we hold SEC data for.
Arm pays a median H-1B base of $130,354 across FY2017–2026, about 7% above the typical Semiconductors sponsor.
H-1B sponsors similar to Arm
| Employer | Filings, all years | Recent filings | Median base | New employment | Level III-IV roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | 9,884 | 4,356 | $186k | 2,192 | 82% |
| Micron | 5,315 | 1,186 | $128k | 510 | 50% |
| Western Digital | 3,901 | 412 | $142k | 328 | 42% |
| Arm | 1,610 | 552 | $155k | 248 | 62% |
| Xilinx | 1,531 | 347 | $171k | 81 | 58% |
| Broadcom | 1,320 | 229 | $176k | 83 | 92% |
| Microchip Technology | 1,189 | 282 | $100k | 113 | 15% |
