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The State of H-1B Visa Sponsorship in 2026

We analyzed 8.4 million US Department of Labor H-1B labor condition filings to map who actually sponsors work visas, how certification rates have moved over a decade, where sponsorship concentrates, and what sponsored roles pay. Here is what the data shows.

Total Filings

8,432,138

Certification Rate

91.2%

Sponsoring Employers

593K+

Avg Processing

11 days

Key findings

IT services firms dominate volume. Infosys Limited leads all employers with 216,845 filings, and the top of the list is concentrated among large IT outsourcing and consulting companies that file in bulk every year.

Big tech pays the most. Product technology companies report the highest base wages, often well into the $150,000 to $170,000 range, while the high-volume services firms cluster lower, closer to $85,000 to $100,000. Sponsorship volume and pay are not the same signal.

Certification is the norm, and rising. Across the full dataset 91.2% of labor condition applications were certified, and the certification rate climbed to the mid-90s in the most recent years. A certified filing is a required step, not a guaranteed visa.

Top H-1B visa sponsors

Employers ranked by total labor condition applications, with reported average base wage.

Filings and certification by year

Annual labor condition application volume and certification rate.

YearFilingsCertifiedRate
2025522,202501,19096%
2024525,571499,08895%
2023493,891466,87694.5%
2022346,500312,61990.2%
2021358,310327,60891.4%
2020352,356327,51092.9%
2019664,873620,27993.3%
2018588,955539,88491.7%
2017593,212534,61590.1%
2016628,953558,18788.7%
2015561,583508,91190.6%
2014481,565441,14591.6%

Where sponsorship concentrates

Top states by H-1B filing volume. Tap a state for its leading sponsors.

What sponsored roles pay

H-1B base wages skew heavily into six figures. Filings report a prevailing wage level from 1 (entry) to 4 (fully competent and senior). Level 2, the most common tier, averages roughly $116K, and every tier averages well above $100,000 in reported base pay.

Level 1

$162K

974,039 filings

Level 2

$116K

1,805,185 filings

Level 3

$150K

785,408 filings

Level 4

$190K

536,406 filings

Use this data in your job search

Hiro turns this dataset into a job search edge: see which employers sponsor, then find their open roles.

Methodology and sources

This report is built from US Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification Labor Condition Application disclosure files, the public filings employers must submit before petitioning for an H-1B worker. Figures cover 8,432,138 filings across the available years.

A Labor Condition Application is a required step in the H-1B process, not the same as an approved visa, which is adjudicated separately by USCIS. Certification rates here describe LCA outcomes, not petition approvals. Reported wages are employer-stated base wages and exclude bonus, equity, and overtime. Company totals aggregate filings under a single reported employer name and may undercount entities that file under multiple legal names.

Source: Hiro H-1B Sponsorship Database, https://hirocareers.com/h1b/report. Free to cite with attribution and a link.