Starbucks H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Retail · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Seattle, WA HQ🌐 starbucks.com
Does Starbucks sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Starbucks has filed 1,441 H-1B LCAs and 297 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Starbucks filed 314 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $159,331, about 31% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 62 green-card cases were decided.
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) | 115 | $166k |
| FY2025 | 199 | $157k |
| FY2024 | 118 | $158k |
| FY2023 | 125 | $149k |
| FY2022 | 172 | $149k |
| FY2021 | 150 | $140k |
| FY2020 | 150 | $136k |
| FY2019 | 139 | $129k |
| FY2018 | 175 | $125k |
| FY2017 | 98 | $116k |
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
- 1Application Developer Senior82$133k
- 2Systems Analyst Senior46$125k
- 3Application Developer Lead32$151k
- 4Engineer Senior24$139k
- 5Application Developer II22$122k
- 6Systems Analyst Lead22$140k
- 7Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Senior19$130k
- 8Engineer II- Starbucks Technology18$126k
Where they hire
Green-card (PERM) pay & filings by year
Median green-card offer (line) and PERM filing volume (bars), by fiscal year †
Show the numbers behind this chart
| Fiscal year | PERM filings | Median base salary |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (partial) | 35 | $166k |
| FY2025 | 27 | $153k |
| FY2024 | 21 | $150k |
| FY2023 | 24 | $145k |
| FY2022 | 46 | $140k |
| FY2021 | 36 | $142k |
| FY2020 | 25 | $137k |
| FY2019 | 14 | $146k |
| FY2018 | 58 | $128k |
| FY2017 | 11 | $94k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 246
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 120
- applications
- Most recent grant
- April 7, 2026
- Top area
- Kitchen equipment; coffee mills; spice mills46
Pay against the local market
Starbucks’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros. Its median base salary is 111% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Starbucks pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | Seattle, WA | 583 | $144,366 | $148,893 | 97% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | Seattle, WA | 245 | $147,749 | $122,993 | 120% |
| Computer Systems Analysts | Seattle, WA | 243 | $137,535 | $116,316 | 118% |
| Data Scientists | Seattle, WA | 37 | $141,861 | $153,322 | 93% |
| Operations Research Analysts | Seattle, WA | 37 | $135,345 | $98,442 | 137% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | Seattle, WA | 36 | $180,916 | $168,386 | 107% |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | Seattle, WA | 26 | $143,644 | $130,216 | 110% |
| Information Security Analysts | Seattle, WA | 22 | $153,176 | $134,641 | 114% |
| Statisticians | Seattle, WA | 17 | $132,670 | $99,146 | 134% |
| Financial and Investment Analysts | Seattle, WA | 16 | $106,031 | $99,479 | 107% |
About Starbucks
Starbucks is a retail company based in Seattle, WA. It was founded in 1971 and has about 191,000 employees worldwide. It is listed on Nasdaq as SBUX.
- Name (DOL filings)
- Starbucks
- Listed
- Nasdaq: SBUX
- Incorporated in
- Washington
- Headquarters
- P O Box 34067, Seattle, WA 98124-1067
- Industry
- Retail
- Employees (global)
- 381,000 (2025)
- Revenue FY2025
- $37.2B +3% from $36.2B
- Net income FY2025
- $1.9B -51% from $3.8B
- Founded
- 1971
Starbucks pays a median H-1B base of $140,000 across FY2017–2026, about 20% above the typical Retail sponsor.
