Figma H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Productivity & work SaaS · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 San Francisco, CA HQ🌐 figma.com
Does Figma sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Figma has filed 258 H-1B LCAs and 47 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Figma filed 119 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $205,070, about 68% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 30 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) | 67 | $206k |
| FY2025 | 52 | $202k |
| FY2024 | 31 | $200k |
| FY2023 | 33 | $190k |
| FY2022 | 38 | $178k |
| FY2021 | 19 | $150k |
| FY2020 | 6 | $147k |
| FY2019 | 4 | $117k |
| FY2018 | 7 | $110k |
| FY2017 | 1 | $140k |
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) | 11 | $203k |
| FY2025 | 19 | $210k |
| FY2024 | 5 | $175k |
| FY2023 | 3 | $125k |
| FY2022 | 1 | $155k |
| FY2021 | 2 | $111k |
| FY2020 | 4 | $135k |
| FY2019 | 2 | $130k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 26
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 68
- applications
- Most recent grant
- March 10, 2026
- Top area
- Electric digital data processing18
Pay against the local market
Figma’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 127% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Figma pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | San Francisco, CA | 65 | $193,225 | $167,010 | 116% |
| Software Developers | New York, NY | 41 | $207,680 | $154,792 | 134% |
| Software Developers | Seattle, WA | 21 | $204,986 | $165,124 | 124% |
| Data Scientists | San Francisco, CA | 9 | $205,511 | $165,981 | 124% |
| Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | San Francisco, CA | 8 | $112,000 | $106,779 | 105% |
| Statisticians | San Francisco, CA | 7 | $135,675 | $139,179 | 97% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | San Francisco, CA | 6 | $254,923 | $221,672 | 115% |
| Data Scientists | New York, NY | 5 | $203,210 | $130,710 | 155% |
| Financial Managers | San Francisco, CA | 5 | $151,150 | $174,684 | 87% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | New York, NY | 5 | $159,700 | $113,792 | 140% |
About Figma
Figma is a productivity & work saas company based in San Francisco, CA. It was founded in 2012. It is listed on NYSE as FIG.
- Legal name
- Figma, Inc.
- Listed
- NYSE: FIG
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Headquarters
- 760 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94102
- Industry
- Productivity & work SaaS
- Employees (US, est)
- 1,266 (2024)
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1B +41% from $749M
- Net income FY2025
- $-1.3B -71% from $-732M
- R&D FY2025
- $1.0B (98% of revenue)
Spends 98% of revenue on R&D, against a 22% median across the 152 Services-Prepackaged Software filers we hold SEC data for.
Figma pays a median H-1B base of $189,668 across FY2017–2026, about 45% above the typical Productivity & work SaaS sponsor.
H-1B sponsors similar to Figma
| Employer | Filings, all years | Recent filings | Median base | New employment | Level III-IV roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlassian | 1,858 | 535 | $190k | 77 | 70% |
| Asana | 550 | 93 | $186k | 18 | 73% |
| Smartsheet | 386 | 82 | $168k | 14 | 36% |
| Figma | 258 | 119 | $205k | 41 | 76% |
| 8x8 | 258 | 13 | $226k | 1 | — |
| Grammarly | 231 | 88 | $214k | 26 | 90% |
| SurveyMonkey | 231 | 17 | $155k | 6 | — |
