Instacart H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Ride-hailing & delivery · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 San Francisco, CA HQ🌐 instacart.com
Does Instacart sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Instacart has filed 1,089 H-1B LCAs and 413 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Instacart filed 281 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $190,000, about 56% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 68 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) | 135 | $200k |
| FY2025 | 146 | $190k |
| FY2024 | 174 | $190k |
| FY2023 | 114 | $190k |
| FY2022 | 167 | $175k |
| FY2021 | 174 | $170k |
| FY2020 | 63 | $160k |
| FY2019 | 52 | $160k |
| FY2018 | 45 | $136k |
| FY2017 | 19 | $120k |
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) | 42 | $181k |
| FY2025 | 26 | $185k |
| FY2024 | 33 | $173k |
| FY2023 | 106 | $180k |
| FY2022 | 97 | $170k |
| FY2021 | 36 | $170k |
| FY2020 | 30 | $150k |
| FY2019 | 14 | $136k |
| FY2018 | 10 | $125k |
| FY2017 | 19 | $120k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Pay against the local market
Instacart’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 119% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Instacart pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | San Francisco, CA | 348 | $179,491 | $157,809 | 114% |
| Software Developers | Seattle, WA | 73 | $188,945 | $160,692 | 118% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | San Francisco, CA | 66 | $218,076 | $210,933 | 103% |
| Statisticians | San Francisco, CA | 60 | $161,583 | $131,457 | 123% |
| Software Developers | San Jose, CA | 48 | $214,521 | $205,131 | 105% |
| Software Developers | New York, NY | 36 | $178,278 | $150,171 | 119% |
| Database Administrators | San Francisco, CA | 24 | $175,000 | $129,649 | 135% |
| Marketing Managers | New York, NY | 23 | $155,654 | $174,309 | 89% |
| Marketing Managers | San Francisco, CA | 22 | $186,136 | $206,960 | 90% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | Seattle, WA | 18 | $224,278 | $201,994 | 111% |
About Instacart
Instacart, legally Maplebear Inc., runs a leading US grocery-delivery and retail-technology platform. A Y Combinator alum (S12), it files for H-1B workers under the Maplebear name.
- Legal name
- Maplebear Inc.
- Listed
- Nasdaq: CART
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Headquarters
- 50 Beale Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94105
- Industry
- Ride-hailing & delivery
- Employees (global)
- 3,600 (2025)
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7B +11% from $3.4B
- Net income FY2025
- $447M -2% from $457M
- R&D FY2025
- $650M (17% of revenue)
Files 1 green-card application for every 2.6 H-1B filings, where a typical sponsor its size does 1 in 6.5.
Instacart pays a median H-1B base of $175,000 across FY2017–2026, about 30% above the typical Ride-hailing & delivery sponsor.
H-1B sponsors similar to Instacart
| Employer | Filings, all years | Recent filings | Median base | New employment | Level III-IV roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DoorDash | 3,315 | 951 | $172k | 264 | 53% |
| Lyft | 2,142 | 216 | $148k | 63 | 31% |
| Informatica | 1,479 | 156 | $137k | 36 | 69% |
| Instacart | 1,089 | 281 | $190k | 60 | 85% |
| Citrix Systems | 1,052 | 49 | $166k | 10 | 85% |
| Guidewire Software | 1,048 | 154 | $153k | 27 | 73% |
| Cloud Big Data Technologies | 1,031 | 4 | $88k | 0 | — |
