Yelp H-1B Visa Sponsorship 2026
Internet media · H-1B sponsor · FY2017–2026
🏢 San Francisco, CA HQ🌐 yelp.com
Does Yelp sponsor H-1B visas and green cards?
Yes. Yelp has filed 713 H-1B LCAs and 253 PERM green-card cases with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026. In FY2025–2026 Yelp filed 86 H-1B LCAs at a median base salary of $229,750, about 88% above the national H-1B median of $121,966 for the same period, and 20 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) | 39 | $230k |
| FY2025 | 47 | $228k |
| FY2024 | 42 | $188k |
| FY2023 | 60 | $174k |
| FY2022 | 85 | $155k |
| FY2021 | 68 | $146k |
| FY2020 | 76 | $135k |
| FY2019 | 114 | $150k |
| FY2018 | 114 | $135k |
| FY2017 | 68 | $140k |
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) | 9 | $147k |
| FY2025 | 11 | $133k |
| FY2024 | 19 | $147k |
| FY2023 | 18 | $130k |
| FY2022 | 18 | $140k |
| FY2021 | 31 | $135k |
| FY2020 | 34 | $140k |
| FY2019 | 49 | $135k |
| FY2018 | 40 | $135k |
| FY2017 | 24 | $130k |
Green-card route and outcomes
Worker backgrounds · FY2017–2024
Where their green-card (PERM) workers studied & came from
Patents
- Granted
- 3
- US patents
- Published, not yet granted
- —
- applications
- Most recent grant
- February 19, 2019
- Top area
- Transmission of digital information1
Pay against the local market
Yelp’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 | Yelp pay | Local BLS median‡ | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | San Francisco, CA | 428 | $150,764 | $151,029 | 100% |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | San Francisco, CA | 73 | $202,094 | $205,387 | 98% |
| Statisticians | San Francisco, CA | 21 | $160,524 | $131,062 | 122% |
| Operations Research Analysts | San Francisco, CA | 18 | $149,811 | $111,066 | 135% |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | San Francisco, CA | 11 | $221,515 | $143,149 | 155% |
| Software Developers | Seattle, WA | 10 | $202,779 | $162,156 | 125% |
| Computer Systems Analysts | San Francisco, CA | 8 | $120,000 | $117,163 | 102% |
| Marketing Managers | San Francisco, CA | 8 | $214,675 | $186,699 | 115% |
| General and Operations Managers | San Francisco, CA | 7 | $159,693 | $142,627 | 112% |
| Management Analysts | San Francisco, CA | 7 | $134,286 | $101,301 | 133% |
About Yelp
Yelp is an internet media company based in 140 New Montgomery. It was founded in 2004 and has about 4,350 employees worldwide. It is listed on NYSE as YELP.
- Name (DOL filings)
- Yelp
- Listed
- NYSE: YELP
- Incorporated in
- Delaware
- Headquarters
- 350 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
- Industry
- Internet media
- Employees (global)
- 5,168 (2025)
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5B +4% from $1.4B
- Net income FY2025
- $146M +10% from $133M
- R&D FY2025
- $298M (20% of revenue)
Files 1 green-card application for every 2.8 H-1B filings, where a typical sponsor its size does 1 in 6.5.
Yelp pays a median H-1B base of $154,000 across FY2017–2026, about 40% above the typical Internet media sponsor.
H-1B sponsors similar to Yelp
| Employer | Filings, all years | Recent filings | Median base | New employment | Level III-IV roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yahoo | 4,421 | 512 | $157k | 113 | 66% |
| Indeed | 1,946 | 346 | $149k | 52 | 56% |
| Zillow | 1,881 | 247 | $171k | 36 | 68% |
| Yelp | 713 | 86 | $230k | 21 | 62% |
| WPP Media | 492 | 189 | $110k | 59 | 39% |
| Match Group | 447 | 42 | $160k | 13 | 44% |
| Internet Brands | 444 | 61 | $112k | 25 | 15% |
