Bio-Rad Laboratories H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Medical devices & life sciences · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Hercules, CA HQ🌐 bio-rad.com
Does Bio-Rad Laboratories sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Bio-Rad Laboratories has filed 409 H-1B LCAs and 93 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Bio-Rad Laboratories filed 68 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $134,846, about 11% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 25 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) | 29 | $136k |
| FY2025 | 39 | $134k |
| FY2024 | 41 | $142k |
| FY2023 | 42 | $128k |
| FY2022 | 56 | $125k |
| FY2021 | 45 | $126k |
| FY2020 | 34 | $124k |
| FY2019 | 55 | $119k |
| FY2018 | 35 | $114k |
| FY2017 | 33 | $112k |
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) | 10 | $162k |
| FY2025 | 15 | $156k |
| FY2024 | 3 | $120k |
| FY2023 | 6 | $137k |
| FY2022 | 8 | $151k |
| FY2021 | 12 | $150k |
| FY2020 | 8 | $135k |
| FY2019 | 3 | $140k |
| FY2018 | 15 | $118k |
| FY2017 | 13 | $125k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 1,072
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 1,013
- applications
- Most recent grant
- March 24, 2026
- Top area
- Investigating or analysing materials by determining403
Pay against the local market
Bio-Rad Laboratories’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 99% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Bio-Rad Laboratories pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Systems Analysts | San Francisco, CA | 57 | $128,138 | $121,725 | 105% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 55 | $137,755 | $133,170 | 103% |
| Software Developers | San Francisco, CA | 34 | $134,473 | $150,875 | 89% |
| Industrial Engineers | San Francisco, CA | 17 | $121,529 | $125,351 | 97% |
| Mechanical Engineers | San Francisco, CA | 17 | $112,380 | $131,058 | 86% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | San Francisco, CA | 16 | $159,692 | $195,351 | 82% |
| Chemists | San Francisco, CA | 14 | $99,988 | $111,084 | 90% |
| Network and Computer Systems Administrators | San Francisco, CA | 12 | $134,498 | $111,412 | 121% |
| Biological Scientists, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 8 | $104,552 | $112,994 | 93% |
| Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | San Francisco, CA | 8 | $117,069 | $111,608 | 105% |
About Bio-Rad Laboratories
Bio-Rad Laboratories is a medical devices & life sciences company based in Hercules, CA. It was founded in 1952 and has about 8,300 employees worldwide. It is listed on NYSE as BIO.
- Name (DOL filings)
- Bio-Rad Laboratories
- Listed
- NYSE: BIO
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Headquarters
- 1000 Alfred Nobel Drive, Hercules, CA 94547
- Industry
- Medical devices & life sciences
- Employees (global)
- 7,450 (2025)
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6B +1% from $2.6B
- Net income FY2025
- $760M +141% from $-1.8B
- R&D FY2025
- $276M (11% of revenue)
Spends 11% of revenue on R&D, against a 22% median across the 16 Laboratory Analytical Instruments filers we hold SEC data for.
Bio-Rad Laboratories pays a median H-1B base of $123,989 across FY2017–2026, about 15% above the typical Medical devices & life sciences sponsor.
H-1B sponsors similar to Bio-Rad Laboratories
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 1,951 | 569 | $155k | 98 | 63% |
| Becton Dickinson | 1,576 | 262 | $135k | 68 | 51% |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1,477 | 226 | $104k | 49 | 51% |
| Bio-Rad Laboratories | 409 | 68 | $135k | 16 | 64% |
| MilliporeSigma | 374 | 63 | $123k | 15 | 49% |
| Guardant Health | 369 | 68 | $163k | 7 | 58% |
| Emd Millipore | 366 | 69 | $115k | 5 | 51% |
