Verisign H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Networking & hardware · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 Reston, VA HQ🌐 verisign.com
Does Verisign sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Verisign has filed 238 H-1B LCAs and 54 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Verisign filed 29 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $158,227, about 30% above 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
Show the numbers behind this chart
| Fiscal year | H-1B LCA filings | Median base salary |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (partial) | 9 | $167k |
| FY2025 | 20 | $152k |
| FY2024 | 22 | $147k |
| FY2023 | 10 | $145k |
| FY2022 | 22 | $120k |
| FY2021 | 33 | $120k |
| FY2020 | 30 | $120k |
| FY2019 | 21 | $115k |
| FY2018 | 32 | $118k |
| FY2017 | 39 | $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
- 1Engineer - Software Engineering62$106k
- 2Senior Engineer - Software Engineering14$142k
- 3Technical Business Systems Analyst11$122k
- 4Engineer IV - Systems Engineering9$151k
- 5Engineer - Network Engineer8$121k
- 6Engineer - Information Security7$96k
- 7Engineer - Database Engineering6$116k
- 8Engineer III - Software Engineering6$133k
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) | 2 | $140k |
| FY2025 | 6 | $150k |
| FY2024 | 5 | $157k |
| FY2023 | 7 | $138k |
| FY2022 | 1 | $108k |
| FY2021 | 12 | $110k |
| FY2020 | 8 | $100k |
| FY2019 | 4 | $117k |
| FY2018 | 5 | $89k |
| FY2017 | 4 | $120k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 457
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- 424
- applications
- Most recent grant
- March 31, 2026
- Top area
- Transmission of digital information284
Pay against the local market
Verisign’s 10 most-filed occupations and metros, FY2018–FY2026. Its median base salary is 99% of the local BLS median for the same work.
| Occupation | Metro | Filings | Verisign pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | Washington, DC | 130 | $124,995 | $128,536 | 97% |
| Database Administrators | Washington, DC | 14 | $128,940 | $118,733 | 109% |
| Computer Network Architects | Washington, DC | 10 | $117,472 | $135,667 | 87% |
| Network and Computer Systems Administrators | Washington, DC | 8 | $131,188 | $116,739 | 112% |
| Information Security Analysts | Washington, DC | 8 | $110,079 | $123,074 | 89% |
| Marketing Managers | Washington, DC | 4 | $154,762 | $165,898 | 93% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | Washington, DC | 3 | $158,032 | $170,423 | 93% |
| Computer Network Support Specialists | Washington, DC | 2 | $66,232 | $74,550 | 89% |
| Management Analysts | Washington, DC | 1 | $145,000 | $103,400 | 140% |
| Operations Research Analysts | Washington, DC | 1 | $138,800 | $105,760 | 131% |
About Verisign
Verisign is a networking & hardware company based in Reston, VA. It was founded in 1995 and has about 1,019 employees worldwide. It is listed on Nasdaq as VRSN.
- Name (DOL filings)
- Verisign
- Listed
- Nasdaq: VRSN
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Headquarters
- 12061 Bluemont Way, Reston, VA 20190
- Industry
- Networking & hardware
- Employees (US, est)
- 863 (2024)
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7B +6% from $1.6B
- Net income FY2025
- $826M +5% from $786M
- R&D FY2025
- $104M (6% of revenue)
Spends 6% of revenue on R&D, against a 27% median across the 12 Services-Computer Programming Services filers we hold SEC data for.
Verisign pays a median H-1B base of $125,864 across FY2017–2026, about 14% above the typical Networking & hardware sponsor.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F5 | 1,519 | 295 | $181k | 66 | 56% |
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| Arista Networks | 1,380 | 329 | $133k | 89 | — |
| Verisign | 238 | 29 | $158k | 3 | — |
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| Viavi Solutions | 184 | 49 | $123k | 17 | 47% |
