Rigetti & Co H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Semiconductors · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Berkeley, CA HQ🌐 rigetti.com
Does Rigetti & Co sponsor H-1B visas?
Yes. Rigetti & Co has filed 28 H-1B LCAs with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Rigetti & Co filed 9 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $172,500, about 41% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period. No PERM green-card cases are on record.
Berkeley, CA accounts for 68% of its H-1B filings.
H-1B pay & filings by year
Median base salary (line) and H-1B filing volume (bars), by fiscal year
Show the numbers behind this chart
| Fiscal year | H-1B LCA filings | Median base salary |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (partial) | 7 | $175k |
| FY2025 | 2 | $166k |
| FY2023 | 1 | $145k |
| FY2022 | 1 | $120k |
| FY2020 | 5 | $153k |
| FY2019 | 2 | $115k |
| FY2018 | 7 | $94k |
| FY2017 | 3 | $95k |
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
Worker backgrounds
From green-card (PERM) cases
Sponsors H-1B workers but has few or no green-card (PERM) cases under this name, so worker backgrounds aren’t available.
Patents
- Granted
- 124
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 80
- applications
- Most recent grant
- March 31, 2026
- Top area
- Computing arrangements based on specific computational models73
Pay against the local market
Rigetti & Co’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 | Rigetti & Co pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physicists | San Francisco, CA | 8 | $90,635 | $121,526 | 75% |
| Materials Engineers | San Francisco, CA | 4 | $157,500 | $133,698 | 118% |
| Computer and Information Research Scientists | San Francisco, CA | 3 | $123,667 | $147,480 | 84% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | Washington, DC | 2 | $153,000 | $170,790 | 90% |
| Managers, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 2 | $108,462 | $127,162 | 85% |
| Engineers, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 2 | $144,000 | $144,285 | 100% |
| Computer Hardware Engineers | San Francisco, CA | 1 | $115,000 | $120,760 | 95% |
| Financial Managers | San Francisco, CA | 1 | $145,000 | $173,790 | 83% |
| Sales Engineers | Washington, DC | 1 | $153,000 | $150,600 | 102% |
| Computer and Information Research Scientists | Baltimore, MD | 1 | $172,500 | $152,780 | 113% |
About Rigetti & Co
Rigetti & Co is a semiconductors company based in Berkeley, CA. It was founded in 2013. It is listed on Nasdaq as RGTI.
- Legal name
- Rigetti Computing, Inc.
- Listed
- Nasdaq: RGTI
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Headquarters
- 775 Heinz Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94710
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Employees (US, est)
- 121 (2024)
- Revenue FY2025
- $7M -34% from $11M
- Net income FY2025
- $-216M -8% from $-201M
- R&D FY2025
- $61M (865% of revenue)
Rigetti & Co pays a median H-1B base of $145,000 across FY2017–2026, about 19% above the typical Semiconductors sponsor.
H-1B sponsors similar to Rigetti & Co
| Employer | Filings, all years | Recent filings | Median base | New employment | Level III-IV roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambiq Micro | 49 | 16 | $160k | 1 | — |
| Ayar Labs | 48 | 26 | $170k | 12 | 73% |
| IONQ | 47 | 21 | $143k | 7 | — |
| Rigetti & Co | 28 | 9 | $173k | 8 | — |
| JSR Micro | 28 | 4 | $142k | 0 | — |
| Montage Semiconductor | 27 | 19 | $132k | 8 | — |
| Impinj | 26 | 11 | $130k | 5 | — |
