Lyft H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Ride-hailing & delivery · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 San Francisco, CA HQ🌐 lyft.com
Does Lyft sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Lyft has filed 2,142 H-1B LCAs and 705 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Lyft filed 216 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $148,000, about 21% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 88 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) | 75 | $150k |
| FY2025 | 141 | $146k |
| FY2024 | 100 | $144k |
| FY2023 | 135 | $170k |
| FY2022 | 294 | $181k |
| FY2021 | 272 | $175k |
| FY2020 | 290 | $179k |
| FY2019 | 394 | $170k |
| FY2018 | 320 | $170k |
| FY2017 | 121 | $155k |
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) | 34 | $139k |
| FY2025 | 54 | $140k |
| FY2024 | 2 | $173k |
| FY2023 | 59 | $170k |
| FY2022 | 82 | $170k |
| FY2021 | 137 | $175k |
| FY2020 | 150 | $170k |
| FY2019 | 121 | $175k |
| FY2018 | 28 | $173k |
| FY2017 | 38 | $155k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 555
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 659
- applications
- Most recent grant
- April 7, 2026
- Top area
- Measuring distances106
Pay against the local market
Lyft’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 122% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Lyft pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | San Francisco, CA | 770 | $174,821 | $150,189 | 116% |
| Software Developers | Seattle, WA | 215 | $176,359 | $146,109 | 121% |
| Software Developers | San Jose, CA | 145 | $181,406 | $151,569 | 120% |
| Operations Research Analysts | San Francisco, CA | 138 | $140,294 | $108,835 | 129% |
| Statisticians | San Francisco, CA | 111 | $159,324 | $128,206 | 124% |
| Software Developers | New York, NY | 79 | $177,383 | $134,577 | 132% |
| Architectural and Engineering Managers | San Francisco, CA | 65 | $200,115 | $194,210 | 103% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 44 | $158,163 | $132,116 | 120% |
| Data Scientists | San Francisco, CA | 37 | $141,758 | $163,747 | 87% |
| Operations Research Analysts | New York, NY | 29 | $154,150 | $103,877 | 148% |
About Lyft
Lyft is a ride-hailing & delivery company based in San Francisco, CA. It was founded in 2013. It is listed on Nasdaq as LYFT.
- Legal name
- Lyft, Inc.
- Listed
- Nasdaq: LYFT
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Headquarters
- 185 Berry Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, CA 94107
- Industry
- Ride-hailing & delivery
- Employees (global)
- 3,913 (2025)
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.9B +10% from $5.4B
- Net income FY2025
- $2.8B +12382% from $23M
- R&D FY2025
- $451M (8% of revenue)
Files 1 green-card application for every 3 H-1B filings, where a typical sponsor its size does 1 in 6.5.
Lyft pays a median H-1B base of $170,936 across FY2017–2026, about 25% above the typical Ride-hailing & delivery sponsor.
H-1B sponsors similar to Lyft
| Employer | Filings, all years | Recent filings | Median base | New employment | Level III-IV roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palo Alto Networks | 3,804 | 1,025 | $183k | 556 | 88% |
| Wayfair | 3,374 | 475 | $160k | 219 | 60% |
| DoorDash | 3,315 | 951 | $172k | 264 | 53% |
| Lyft | 2,142 | 216 | $148k | 63 | 31% |
| NetApp | 2,084 | 326 | $150k | 87 | 76% |
| Lam Research | 2,063 | 466 | $138k | 191 | 60% |
| Databricks | 2,033 | 847 | $161k | 239 | 60% |
