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Top Green Card Employers by Job Title: Hardware Engineer

Rank: 1 - 50

RankGreen Card SponsorGreen Card PetitionsAverage Salary
1 Intel13 $187,239
2 Microsoft13 $178,100
3 Cisco8 $166,931
4 Sambanova Systems7 $126,137
5 Meta Platforms3 $220,947
6 Google3 $195,335
7 Sk Hynix Nand Product Solutions3 $165,348
8 Goforward2 $170,186
9 Graphiant1 $208,146
10 Intel Federal1 $193,130
11 Waymo1 $190,000
12 View Operating1 $145,000
13 Arista Networks1 $120,479
14 Qualcomm1 $114,116
15 Rockwell Automation1 $79,004

Rank: 1 - 50

Note: To obtain employment based green card in United States, most foreign workers will have to go through 3 steps: 1). Permanent Labor Certification(ETA Form 9089), 2). Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker(Form I-140), 3). Adjust of Status to a permanent resident of the United States(Form I485).

The above report lists the top 1 - 50 employment based Green Card sponsors (hardware-engineer) in fiscal year . For Example, the first three records on this report report that Intel filed 13 permanent labor certifications under PERM for employment based Green Card in fiscal year 2024. The average salary of those job offerss was $187,239Microsoft filed 13 permanent labor certifications under PERM for employment based Green Card in fiscal year 2024. The average salary of those job offerss was $178,100Cisco filed 8 permanent labor certifications under PERM for employment based Green Card in fiscal year 2024. The average salary of those job offerss was $166,931. The number and average salary are not for all permanent labor certifications filed under PERM by at the appropriate National Processing Center by Cisco in fiscal year 2024. They are for hardware-engineer jobs only.

The green card sponsors(employers) are sorted by the number of Permanent Labor Certifications filed under PERM to National Processing Center. The number includes certified, withdrawn, denied and certified but withdrawn Permanent Labor Certifications.

As above numbers include the Labor Certifications that have been denied or withdrawn, please click the green card sponsors' names to review the details of every certifications. If two green card sponsors have filed same number of permanent labor certifications in the same year and same category, they are further sorted by the average salary in descending order.

The salary is the average salary of all proffered salary on labor certifications filed under PERM system using ETA Form 9089. Some green card sponsors did not enter a specific salary on ETA Form 9089, but a salary range. Our algorithm uses the middle point of the range to calculate the average salary. Please review the certification detail to see the salary range.