Sony H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Consumer electronics · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 San Mateo, CA HQ📍 San Diego, CA most H-1B filings🌐 sony.com
Does Sony sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Sony has filed 2,457 H-1B LCAs and 568 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Sony filed 464 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $158,900, about 30% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 56 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) | 185 | $164k |
| FY2025 | 279 | $156k |
| FY2024 | 250 | $148k |
| FY2023 | 202 | $137k |
| FY2022 | 288 | $148k |
| FY2021 | 214 | $139k |
| FY2020 | 216 | $130k |
| FY2019 | 314 | $128k |
| FY2018 | 279 | $121k |
| FY2017 | 230 | $120k |
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) | 16 | $139k |
| FY2025 | 40 | $150k |
| FY2024 | 42 | $135k |
| FY2023 | 69 | $145k |
| FY2022 | 54 | $135k |
| FY2021 | 80 | $140k |
| FY2020 | 60 | $135k |
| FY2019 | 50 | $133k |
| FY2018 | 98 | $125k |
| FY2017 | 59 | $123k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 4
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 1
- applications
- Most recent grant
- April 8, 2014
- Top area
- Pictorial communication2
Pay against the local market
Sony’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 | Sony pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | San Francisco, CA | 497 | $153,032 | $154,001 | 99% |
| Software Developers | San Diego, CA | 374 | $140,593 | $131,157 | 107% |
| Software Developers | Los Angeles, CA | 219 | $131,941 | $131,950 | 100% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 92 | $139,221 | $129,158 | 108% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | Los Angeles, CA | 86 | $119,854 | $92,416 | 130% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | San Diego, CA | 47 | $122,727 | $102,118 | 120% |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | San Francisco, CA | 43 | $162,102 | $138,948 | 117% |
| Special Effects Artists and Animators | Los Angeles, CA | 40 | $117,531 | $94,159 | 125% |
| Data Scientists | San Francisco, CA | 38 | $157,697 | $165,696 | 95% |
| Computer Systems Analysts | Los Angeles, CA | 36 | $125,265 | $109,645 | 114% |
About Sony
Sony is a consumer electronics company based in Minato, Japan. It was founded in 1946 and has about 114,400 employees worldwide. It is listed on NYSE as SONY.
- Legal name
- Sony Group Corp
- Listed
- NYSE: SONY
- Incorporated in
- M0
- Headquarters
- 1-7-1, Konan, Tokyo, 108-0075
- Industry
- Consumer electronics
- Employees (global)
- 94,900 (2026)
- Revenue FY2025
- ¥12957.1B -0% from ¥13020.8B
- Net income FY2025
- ¥1159.9B +18% from ¥980.5B
- R&D FY2025
- ¥734.6B (6% of revenue)
Sony pays a median H-1B base of $137,633 across FY2017–2026, about 25% above the typical Consumer electronics sponsor.
