Sibelco H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Metals & mining · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Charlotte, NC HQ📍 Spruce Pine, NC most H-1B filings🌐 sibelco.com
Does Sibelco sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Sibelco has filed 27 H-1B LCAs and 1 PERM green-card case with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2023 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Sibelco filed 16 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $94,231, about 23% below the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 1 green-card case was decided.
Its H-1B filings climbed 120% from FY2024 to FY2025 (5 → 11).
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) | 5 | $71k |
| FY2025 | 11 | $130k |
| FY2024 | 5 | $110k |
| FY2023 | 6 | $165k |
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)
1 green-card (PERM) filing in FY2026, median offer $218k. Too few years to chart a trend.
Worker backgrounds
From green-card (PERM) cases
1 green-card (PERM) case, from FY2025. DOL stopped publishing worker details that year.
Pay against the local market
Sibelco’s most-filed occupations and metros, FY2024–FY2025. Its median base salary is 207% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Sibelco pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research Analysts | Charlotte, NC | 2 | $336,561 | $101,750 | 331% |
| Materials Scientists | Charlotte, NC | 1 | $83,312 | $80,890 | 103% |
| Electrical Engineers | Charlotte, NC | 1 | $74,880 | $114,450 | 65% |
About Sibelco
Sibelco is a metals & mining company based in Antwerp, Belgium. It was founded in 1872 and has about 10,000 employees worldwide.
- Name (DOL filings)
- Sibelco
- Listed
- Private
- Sponsoring since
- FY2023
- Headquarters
- Antwerp, Belgium
- Industry
- Metals & mining
- Founded
- 1872
- H-1B filings
- 27
- Median base
- $105,893
- Website
- sibelco.com
Sibelco pays a median H-1B base of $105,893 across FY2017–2026, about 6% above the typical Metals & mining sponsor.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Sibelco | 27 | 16 | $94k | 11 | — |
| Resolution Copper Company | 27 | 5 | $172k | 4 | — |
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