Shell H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Energy & oilfield services · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Houston, TX HQ🌐 shell.com
Does Shell sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Shell has filed 414 H-1B LCAs and 56 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Shell filed 30 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $152,000, about 25% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 3 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) | 12 | $151k |
| FY2025 | 18 | $154k |
| FY2024 | 23 | $140k |
| FY2023 | 27 | $145k |
| FY2022 | 23 | $135k |
| FY2021 | 45 | $143k |
| FY2020 | 71 | $140k |
| FY2019 | 55 | $138k |
| FY2018 | 57 | $134k |
| FY2017 | 83 | $130k |
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) | 1 | $47k |
| FY2025 | 2 | $34k |
| FY2024 | 5 | $51k |
| FY2023 | 4 | $53k |
| FY2022 | 2 | $45k |
| FY2021 | 8 | $53k |
| FY2020 | 3 | $132k |
| FY2019 | 8 | $128k |
| FY2018 | 12 | $95k |
| FY2017 | 11 | $117k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 6
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- —
- applications
- Most recent grant
- May 8, 1928
- Top area
- Feeding fuel to combustion apparatus1
Pay against the local market
Shell’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 108% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Shell pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geoscientists | Houston, TX | 115 | $140,878 | $154,097 | 91% |
| Petroleum Engineers | Houston, TX | 69 | $143,188 | $155,150 | 92% |
| Chemical Engineers | Houston, TX | 56 | $127,638 | $145,341 | 88% |
| Mechanical Engineers | Houston, TX | 17 | $118,671 | $102,401 | 116% |
| Health and Safety Engineers | Houston, TX | 14 | $151,871 | $97,256 | 156% |
| Geoscientists | New Orleans, LA | 13 | $134,177 | $116,648 | 115% |
| Petroleum Engineers | New Orleans, LA | 9 | $150,256 | $126,037 | 119% |
| Materials Engineers | Houston, TX | 8 | $120,025 | $109,116 | 110% |
| Physicists | Houston, TX | 7 | $131,886 | $104,249 | 127% |
| Operations Research Analysts | Houston, TX | 7 | $169,829 | $94,924 | 179% |
About Shell
Shell is an energy & oilfield services company based in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1890 and has about 92,000 employees worldwide. It is listed on NYSE as SHEL.
- Legal name
- Shell plc
- Listed
- NYSE: SHEL
- Incorporated in
- District of Columbia
- Headquarters
- Shell Centre, London, Se1 7na
- Industry
- Energy & oilfield services
- Founded
- 1890
- Revenue FY2025
- $266.9B -6% from $284.3B
- Net income FY2025
- $18.1B +10% from $16.5B
- R&D FY2025
- $1.2B (0% of revenue)
Shell pays a median H-1B base of $138,000 across FY2017–2026, about 20% above the typical Energy & oilfield services sponsor.
H-1B sponsors similar to Shell
| Employer | Filings, all years | Recent filings | Median base | New employment | Level III-IV roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siemens Energy | 984 | 215 | $121k | 121 | 49% |
| Halliburton | 891 | 100 | $133k | 45 | 68% |
| Baltimore Gas & Electric Co, An Exelon Company | 705 | 137 | $104k | 63 | 32% |
| Shell | 414 | 30 | $152k | 12 | 47% |
| Chevron | 407 | 43 | $173k | 21 | 74% |
| ExxonMobil | 401 | 69 | $174k | 44 | 82% |
| Edisquare | 399 | 20 | $108k | 3 | 25% |
