Google H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Big tech & cloud · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Mountain View, CA HQ🌐 google.com
Does Google sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Google has filed 88,568 H-1B LCAs and 20,198 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Google filed 16,436 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $186,630, about 53% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 6 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) | 7,492 | $193k |
| FY2025 | 8,944 | $184k |
| FY2024 | 9,089 | $179k |
| FY2023 | 9,920 | $167k |
| FY2022 | 11,931 | $162k |
| FY2021 | 9,401 | $155k |
| FY2020 | 10,062 | $145k |
| FY2019 | 10,579 | $138k |
| FY2018 | 6,350 | $135k |
| FY2017 | 4,800 | $128k |
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) | 3 | $142k |
| FY2025 | 3 | $140k |
| FY2024 | 1,618 | $119k |
| FY2023 | 4,473 | $125k |
| FY2022 | 1,779 | $145k |
| FY2021 | 2,974 | $131k |
| FY2020 | 2,866 | $132k |
| FY2019 | 2,425 | $127k |
| FY2018 | 2,265 | $114k |
| FY2017 | 1,792 | $113k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 35,883
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 26,592
- applications
- Most recent grant
- April 7, 2026
- Top area
- Electric digital data processing12,271
Pay against the local market
Google’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 109% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Google pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | San Francisco, CA | 30,588 | $157,354 | $154,195 | 102% |
| Software Developers | San Jose, CA | 14,877 | $168,134 | $180,884 | 93% |
| Software Developers | Seattle, WA | 7,323 | $152,250 | $154,287 | 99% |
| Software Developers | New York, NY | 4,749 | $164,358 | $137,515 | 120% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 1,847 | $157,476 | $133,024 | 118% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | San Jose, CA | 1,200 | $168,920 | $155,549 | 109% |
| Computer Hardware Engineers | San Francisco, CA | 1,184 | $166,239 | $155,820 | 107% |
| Data Scientists | San Francisco, CA | 1,023 | $178,088 | $164,675 | 108% |
| Computer and Information Research Scientists | San Francisco, CA | 892 | $185,480 | $172,103 | 108% |
| Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | San Francisco, CA | 771 | $144,324 | $99,734 | 145% |
About Google
Google (part of Alphabet) spans Search, Cloud, Android, YouTube, and the Gemini AI models. It is consistently one of the very largest H-1B sponsors.
- Legal name
- Alphabet Inc.
- Listed
- Nasdaq: GOOGL
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Headquarters
- 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
- Industry
- Big tech & cloud
- Employees (global)
- 190,820 (2025)
- Revenue FY2025
- $402.8B +15% from $350.0B
- Net income FY2025
- $132.2B +32% from $100.1B
- R&D FY2025
- $61.1B (15% of revenue)
China is the largest country of citizenship on its green-card filings, 44% of 20,198.
Google pays a median H-1B base of $157,743 across FY2017–2026, about 55% above the typical Big tech & cloud sponsor.
