LinkedIn H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Social media · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Sunnyvale, CA HQ🌐 linkedin.com
Does LinkedIn sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. LinkedIn has filed 10,691 H-1B LCAs and 3,238 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 LinkedIn filed 1,992 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $177,681, about 46% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 592 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) | 1,088 | $179k |
| FY2025 | 904 | $173k |
| FY2024 | 1,125 | $159k |
| FY2023 | 934 | $161k |
| FY2022 | 1,597 | $157k |
| FY2021 | 1,063 | $146k |
| FY2020 | 1,159 | $132k |
| FY2019 | 1,195 | $132k |
| FY2018 | 851 | $133k |
| FY2017 | 775 | $125k |
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
- 1Sr Software Engineer1,727$157k
- 2Software Engineer1,502$124k
- 3Senior Software Engineer847$133k
- 4Staff Software Engineer661$184k
- 5Sr. Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure596$164k
- 6Sr. Software Engineer, Machine Learning375$167k
- 7Software Engineer, Machine Learning354$131k
- 8Manager, Software Engineering318$204k
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) | 169 | $150k |
| FY2025 | 423 | $167k |
| FY2024 | 471 | $170k |
| FY2023 | 243 | $170k |
| FY2022 | 605 | $163k |
| FY2021 | 162 | $160k |
| FY2020 | 351 | $155k |
| FY2019 | 286 | $153k |
| FY2018 | 323 | $145k |
| FY2017 | 205 | $142k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 467
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 808
- applications
- Most recent grant
- December 28, 2021
- Top area
- Electric digital data processing192
Pay against the local market
LinkedIn’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 96% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | LinkedIn pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | San Jose, CA | 4,799 | $156,241 | $177,692 | 88% |
| Software Developers | San Francisco, CA | 1,481 | $139,036 | $146,767 | 95% |
| Data Scientists | San Jose, CA | 331 | $171,638 | $172,906 | 99% |
| Software Developers | New York, NY | 325 | $137,604 | $142,942 | 96% |
| Software Developers | Seattle, WA | 275 | $153,908 | $163,532 | 94% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | San Jose, CA | 273 | $178,951 | $210,085 | 85% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | San Francisco, CA | 224 | $186,399 | $196,433 | 95% |
| Statisticians | San Jose, CA | 219 | $137,279 | $153,763 | 89% |
| Operations Research Analysts | San Francisco, CA | 206 | $120,469 | $107,065 | 113% |
| Operations Research Analysts | San Jose, CA | 184 | $126,946 | $106,326 | 119% |
About LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a social media company based in Sunnyvale, CA.
- Name (DOL filings)
- Parent company
- Microsoft
- Sponsoring since
- FY2017 or earlier
- Main filing location
- Sunnyvale, CA
- Industry
- Social media
- Website
- linkedin.com
- H-1B filings
- 10,691
- Median base
- $147,417
- R&D
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China is the largest country of citizenship on its green-card filings, 35% of 3,238.
