H-1B sponsors in California
Companies sponsoring H-1B workers in California (LCA, FY2017–2026).
Which employers sponsor H-1B workers in California?
The top H-1B sponsors in California are Google, Apple, and Meta, among 1,057,387 certified LCA filings on record (FY2017 to FY2025, U.S. Department of Labor) at a $128k median base salary.
H-1B filings
1,057,387
FY2017–2026* · with wage
Median base salary
$127,907
all roles
Middle 50% (p25–p75)
$97k–$163k
interquartile range
Top employers
100
listed below
Median pay & filings over time
H-1B · FY2017–2026*
Top roles hired here
Most H-1B filings by job title
- 1Software Engineer84,974
- 2Senior Software Engineer24,208
- 3Software Developer18,426
- 4Data Scientist8,213
- 5Programmer Analyst7,700
- 6Staff Software Engineer7,001
- 7Software Development Engineer II6,597
- 8Software Development Engineer6,213
- 9Product Manager5,671
- 10Sr. Software Engineer5,178
Top H-1B employers in California
Most filings · with each employer’s median for this state
- 1Google61,777 filings$169k
- 2Apple28,671 filings$173k
- 3Meta27,313 filings$162k
- 4Amazon24,947 filings$163k
- 5Qualcomm15,517 filings$126k
- 6Infosys14,903 filings$97k
- 7Cognizant12,585 filings$102k
- 8Ernst & Young12,545 filings$130k
- 9Deloitte10,206 filings$99k
- 10Tesla10,108 filings$154k
- 11Walmart9,944 filings$152k
- 12LinkedIn9,281 filings$145k
- 13Salesforce9,178 filings$205k
- 14Tata Consultancy Services9,155 filings$81k
- 15Intel9,066 filings$130k
- 16PayPal6,837 filings$169k
- 17Cisco6,598 filings$147k
- 18Microsoft6,501 filings$179k
- 19Nvidia6,040 filings$177k
- 20Uber5,967 filings$142k
- 21HCLTech5,600 filings$98k
- 22Adobe5,483 filings$183k
- 23eBay5,379 filings$178k
- 24Accenture5,072 filings$123k
- 25IBM4,968 filings$109k
- 26VMware4,811 filings$146k
- 27Intuit Inc.4,729 filings$136k
- 28Wipro4,430 filings$96k
- 29ByteDance3,980 filings$188k
- 30ServiceNow3,961 filings$144k
- 31Stanford University3,822 filings$81k
- 32Capgemini3,442 filings$95k
- 33Western Digital Technologies, Inc.3,182 filings$131k
- 34Tech Mahindra3,135 filings$94k
- 35Palo Alto Networks, Inc.3,060 filings$177k
- 36Visa2,804 filings$140k
- 37University of California, San Francisco2,716 filings$79k
- 38PwC2,677 filings$95k
- 39Applied Materials2,659 filings$148k
- 40Yahoo Holdings Inc.2,392 filings$161k
- 41Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company2,354 filings$158k
- 42Rivian2,264 filings$159k
- 43Oracle2,240 filings$156k
- 44Netflix2,219 filings$223k
- 45TikTok2,211 filings$201k
- 46Amgen2,192 filings$130k
- 47Juniper Networks2,171 filings$141k
- 48Workday2,061 filings$155k
- 49University of California, San Diego1,964 filings$73k
- 50University of California, Los Angeles1,957 filings$87k
- 51Lucid Motors1,950 filings$150k
- 52Waymo LLC1,940 filings$183k
- 53Airbnb1,914 filings$184k
- 54Snap1,845 filings$140k
- 55The University of Southern California1,839 filings$72k
- 56SAP1,767 filings$114k
- 57Pinterest1,713 filings$164k
- 58DoorDash1,678 filings$185k
- 59University of California, Davis1,665 filings$80k
- 60A2z Development Center, Inc.1,628 filings$139k
- 61Marvell1,580 filings$152k
- 62Cadence Design Systems1,574 filings$150k
- 63University of California, Berkeley1,565 filings$82k
- 64LTIMindtree1,550 filings$96k
- 65AMD1,488 filings$164k
- 66Gilead1,475 filings$130k
- 67X Corp.1,404 filings$150k
- 68Nisum Technologies Inc.1,396 filings$121k
- 69Autodesk, Inc.1,393 filings$147k
- 70Compunnel Software Group, Inc1,383 filings$115k
- 71Lyft1,382 filings$175k
- 72Sony Interactive Entertainment1,364 filings$141k
- 73Lam Research1,362 filings$131k
- 74Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory1,353 filings$108k
- 75Zoox Inc.1,350 filings$150k
- 76Pure Storage, Inc.1,346 filings$169k
- 77JPMorgan Chase1,332 filings$178k
- 78Persistent Systems1,318 filings$94k
- 79KLA1,280 filings$152k
- 80Mphasis1,274 filings$115k
- 81Srs Consulting Inc.1,263 filings$100k
- 82Samsung1,246 filings$149k
- 83Intuitive Surgical, Inc.1,241 filings$145k
- 84Illumina, Inc.1,240 filings$117k
- 85KPMG1,234 filings$98k
- 86Genentech1,226 filings$130k
- 87UST1,116 filings$78k
- 88Fortinet, Inc.1,111 filings$135k
- 89Nutanix Inc.1,032 filings$157k
- 90Kforce Inc.1,025 filings$114k
- 91Xilinx, Inc.1,025 filings$152k
- 92Synopsys1,014 filings$126k
- 93Cruise982 filings$190k
- 94LendingClub960 filings$130k
- 95Roblox Corporation931 filings$246k
- 96Atlassian931 filings$193k
- 97Databricks921 filings$167k
- 98ASML914 filings$137k
- 99L&T909 filings$89k
- 100Symantec Corporation908 filings$130k
H-1B sponsors by state
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