General Motors H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Automotive · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Detroit, MI HQ📍 Warren, MI most H-1B filings🌐 gm.com
Does General Motors sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. General Motors has filed 6,674 H-1B LCAs and 1,958 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 General Motors filed 1,597 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $140,214, about 15% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 200 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) | 689 | $148k |
| FY2025 | 908 | $136k |
| FY2024 | 858 | $124k |
| FY2023 | 545 | $123k |
| FY2022 | 894 | $115k |
| FY2021 | 820 | $108k |
| FY2020 | 524 | $108k |
| FY2019 | 473 | $105k |
| FY2018 | 512 | $98k |
| FY2017 | 451 | $94k |
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 | $145k |
| FY2025 | 190 | $110k |
| FY2024 | 119 | $113k |
| FY2023 | 131 | $113k |
| FY2022 | 87 | $109k |
| FY2021 | 198 | $103k |
| FY2020 | 200 | $105k |
| FY2019 | 352 | $100k |
| FY2018 | 410 | $101k |
| FY2017 | 261 | $100k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Pay against the local market
General Motors’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 116% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | General Motors pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineers | Detroit, MI | 1,486 | $111,187 | $99,488 | 112% |
| Electrical Engineers | Detroit, MI | 1,415 | $108,804 | $98,902 | 110% |
| Software Developers | Detroit, MI | 1,366 | $124,690 | $108,449 | 115% |
| Software Developers | Dallas, TX | 194 | $127,775 | $124,546 | 103% |
| Industrial Engineers | Detroit, MI | 177 | $114,686 | $97,981 | 117% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | Dallas, TX | 129 | $128,785 | $102,757 | 125% |
| Commercial and Industrial Designers | Detroit, MI | 122 | $100,707 | $90,133 | 112% |
| Software Developers | Austin, TX | 117 | $145,325 | $121,463 | 120% |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | Detroit, MI | 102 | $121,024 | $99,712 | 121% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | Detroit, MI | 88 | $120,260 | $92,575 | 130% |
About General Motors
General Motors is an automotive company based in Detroit, MI. It was founded in 1908 and has about 164,000 employees worldwide. It is listed on NYSE as GM.
- Legal name
- General Motors Co
- Listed
- NYSE: GM
- Sponsoring since
- FY2017 or earlier
- Headquarters
- 1240 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48265
- Industry
- Automotive
- Employees (US, est)
- 46,747 (2024)
- Revenue FY2025
- $185.0B -1% from $187.4B
- Net income FY2025
- $2.7B -55% from $6.0B
- R&D FY2013
- $7.2B
General Motors pays a median H-1B base of $117,065 across FY2017–2026, about 18% above the typical Automotive sponsor.
