Chime H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Banking · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 San Francisco, CA HQ🌐 chime.com
Does Chime sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Chime has filed 638 H-1B LCAs and 133 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Chime filed 221 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $185,286, about 52% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 66 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) | 93 | $190k |
| FY2025 | 128 | $185k |
| FY2024 | 117 | $200k |
| FY2023 | 91 | $186k |
| FY2022 | 73 | $190k |
| FY2021 | 91 | $195k |
| FY2020 | 27 | $175k |
| FY2019 | 15 | $155k |
| FY2018 | 2 | $160k |
| FY2017 | 1 | $130k |
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) | 36 | $181k |
| FY2025 | 30 | $188k |
| FY2024 | 8 | $201k |
| FY2023 | 33 | $196k |
| FY2022 | 17 | $195k |
| FY2021 | 9 | $177k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Pay against the local market
Chime’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 134% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Chime pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | San Francisco, CA | 212 | $208,715 | $165,827 | 126% |
| Operations Research Analysts | San Francisco, CA | 45 | $166,075 | $107,903 | 154% |
| Data Scientists | San Francisco, CA | 41 | $204,465 | $165,600 | 123% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | San Francisco, CA | 38 | $256,431 | $218,126 | 118% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 37 | $189,473 | $142,087 | 133% |
| Financial Specialists, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 31 | $174,546 | $94,856 | 184% |
| Financial Risk Specialists | San Francisco, CA | 23 | $161,119 | $137,593 | 117% |
| Database Architects | San Francisco, CA | 20 | $216,350 | $170,558 | 127% |
| Financial Risk Specialists | Chicago, IL | 14 | $141,635 | $99,157 | 143% |
| Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | San Francisco, CA | 11 | $152,855 | $106,499 | 144% |
About Chime
Chime is a banking company based in San Francisco, CA. It was founded in 2013. It is listed on Nasdaq as CHYM.
- Legal name
- Chime Financial, Inc.
- Listed
- Nasdaq: CHYM
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Headquarters
- 101 California Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94111
- Industry
- Banking
- Employees (US, est)
- 1,383 (2024)
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2B +31% from $1.7B
- Net income FY2025
- $-1.0B -3885% from $-25M
- R&D FY2025
- $935M (43% of revenue)
Spends 43% of revenue on R&D, against a 23% median across the 7 Finance Services filers we hold SEC data for.
Chime pays a median H-1B base of $190,000 across FY2017–2026, about 60% above the typical Banking sponsor.
H-1B sponsors similar to Chime
| Employer | Filings, all years | Recent filings | Median base | New employment | Level III-IV roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bank of New York Mellon | 1,602 | 367 | $145k | 142 | 59% |
| HSBC | 1,471 | 164 | $172k | 47 | 88% |
| Merrill | 1,427 | 82 | $154k | 3 | 75% |
| Chime | 638 | 221 | $185k | 64 | 77% |
| M&T Bank | 636 | 169 | $125k | 16 | 73% |
| OneMain General Services | 631 | 178 | $96k | 81 | 37% |
| Scotiabank | 597 | 203 | $146k | 98 | 47% |
