Confluent H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Databases & infra software · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
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Does Confluent sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Confluent has filed 801 H-1B LCAs and 241 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Confluent filed 200 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $193,866, about 59% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 95 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) | 58 | $190k |
| FY2025 | 142 | $195k |
| FY2024 | 107 | $180k |
| FY2023 | 92 | $170k |
| FY2022 | 157 | $184k |
| FY2021 | 122 | $170k |
| FY2020 | 54 | $160k |
| FY2019 | 47 | $165k |
| FY2018 | 15 | $160k |
| FY2017 | 7 | $150k |
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) | 47 | $170k |
| FY2025 | 48 | $178k |
| FY2024 | 20 | $201k |
| FY2023 | 56 | $179k |
| FY2022 | 28 | $152k |
| FY2021 | 27 | $170k |
| FY2020 | 8 | $158k |
| FY2019 | 6 | $153k |
| FY2018 | 1 | $150k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 16
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 14
- applications
- Most recent grant
- March 10, 2026
- Top area
- Electric digital data processing10
Pay against the local market
Confluent’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 122% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Confluent pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | San Francisco, CA | 269 | $183,374 | $164,905 | 111% |
| Software Developers | Seattle, WA | 73 | $196,451 | $161,634 | 122% |
| Software Developers | San Jose, CA | 50 | $170,574 | $153,824 | 111% |
| Software Developers | Austin, TX | 43 | $156,604 | $124,470 | 126% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | San Francisco, CA | 33 | $232,152 | $212,497 | 109% |
| Software Developers | Dallas, TX | 20 | $166,615 | $126,536 | 132% |
| Software Developers | Atlanta, GA | 14 | $151,563 | $119,921 | 126% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 13 | $187,646 | $147,511 | 127% |
| Software Developers | Chicago, IL | 13 | $162,208 | $121,701 | 133% |
| Operations Research Analysts | San Francisco, CA | 11 | $157,668 | $102,475 | 154% |
About Confluent
Confluent is a databases & infra software company based in Mountain View, CA.
- Legal name
- Confluent, Inc.
- Listed
- Private
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Headquarters
- 899 W. Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94041
- Industry
- Databases & infra software
- Employees (global)
- 3,241 (2025)
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2B +21% from $964M
- Net income FY2025
- $-295M +14% from $-345M
- R&D FY2025
- $482M (41% of revenue)
Spends 41% of revenue on R&D, against a 22% median across the 152 Services-Prepackaged Software filers we hold SEC data for.
Confluent pays a median H-1B base of $175,000 across FY2017–2026, about 40% above the typical Databases & infra software sponsor.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akamai Technologies | 2,483 | 391 | $155k | 90 | 56% |
| Hitachi Vantara | 2,300 | 37 | $127k | 3 | 22% |
| NetApp | 2,084 | 326 | $150k | 87 | 76% |
| Confluent | 801 | 200 | $194k | 51 | 78% |
| MongoDB | 789 | 262 | $170k | 105 | 71% |
| Cohesity | 784 | 213 | $167k | 53 | 73% |
| Cloudera | 756 | 84 | $185k | 15 | 89% |
