Sallie Mae H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Consumer Lending · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Newark, DE HQ🌐 salliemae.com
Does Sallie Mae sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Sallie Mae has filed 251 H-1B LCAs and 25 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Sallie Mae filed 79 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $100,000, about 18% below the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 8 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) | 32 | $116k |
| FY2025 | 47 | $97k |
| FY2024 | 25 | $108k |
| FY2023 | 24 | $109k |
| FY2022 | 29 | $99k |
| FY2021 | 17 | $88k |
| FY2020 | 32 | $85k |
| FY2019 | 23 | $72k |
| FY2018 | 20 | $77k |
| FY2017 | 2 | $68k |
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) | 2 | $149k |
| FY2025 | 6 | $119k |
| FY2024 | 5 | $125k |
| FY2023 | 4 | $110k |
| FY2022 | 4 | $108k |
| FY2021 | 3 | $95k |
| FY2020 | 1 | $130k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 2
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 4
- applications
- Most recent grant
- February 12, 2013
- Top area
- Electric digital data processing1
Pay against the local market
Sallie Mae’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 97% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Sallie Mae pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statisticians | Philadelphia, PA | 58 | $91,374 | $97,322 | 94% |
| Operations Research Analysts | Philadelphia, PA | 27 | $89,518 | $90,147 | 99% |
| Data Scientists | Philadelphia, PA | 20 | $94,965 | $107,003 | 89% |
| Software Developers | Indianapolis, IN | 17 | $119,262 | $102,724 | 116% |
| Software Developers | Philadelphia, PA | 10 | $81,805 | $119,205 | 69% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | Philadelphia, PA | 9 | $80,539 | $111,181 | 72% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | Indianapolis, IN | 9 | $89,487 | $102,380 | 87% |
| Financial and Investment Analysts | Philadelphia, PA | 9 | $80,958 | $86,671 | 93% |
| Financial Specialists, All Other | Philadelphia, PA | 7 | $90,639 | $79,841 | 114% |
| Network and Computer Systems Administrators | Indianapolis, IN | 6 | $96,770 | $83,190 | 116% |
About Sallie Mae
Sallie Mae is a fintech & payroll software company based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded in 1972. It trades as SLM.
- Name (DOL filings)
- Sallie Mae
- Listed
- Private
- Sponsoring since
- FY2017 or earlier
- Headquarters
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Industry
- Fintech & payroll software
- Founded
- 1972
- H-1B filings
- 251
- Median base
- $90,900
- Website
- salliemae.com
Sallie Mae pays a median H-1B base of $90,900 across FY2017–2026, about 25% below the typical Fintech & payroll software sponsor.
