Top H-1B Visa Sponsors: Research Scientist, 2025 H-1B Visa Report by Job Title

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Top H-1B Sponsors By Job Title: Research Scientist

Rank	H1B Visa Sponsor	Number of LCA ^*	Average Salary
1	Meta Platforms	382	$193,793
2	Google	118	$189,116
3	Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	67	$90,331
4	Intel	60	$168,349
5	Nvidia	40	$216,813
6	University Of Virginia	31	$72,431
7	Nyu Grossman School Of Medicine	30	$80,428
8	The University Of Texas M.d. Anderson Cancer Center	27	$69,340
9	IBM	20	$215,775
10	Trustees Of Boston University	20	$74,808
11	Ut Southwestern Medical Center	20	$66,433
12	University Of Pittsburgh Physicians	18	$70,291

13	Bytedance	17	$232,198
14	The Ohio State University	17	$74,200
15	The Cleveland Clinic	14	$64,835
16	University Of Texas Health Science Center At San Antonio	14	$58,954
17	University Of Illinois	13	$82,680
18	Purdue University	12	$92,832
19	Research Foundation Of Suny At Buffalo	12	$67,748
20	The Curators Of The University Of Missouri	11	$57,705
21	Brigham And Womens Hospital	10	$89,150
22	The General Hospital	10	$82,125
23	The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York	10	$71,098
24	The Research Institute At Nationwide Children's Hospital	9	$77,272
25	Duke University	9	$65,376
26	Zoom Video Communications	8	$158,497
27	Yale University	8	$106,579
28	The Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene	8	$85,090
29	Trustees Of Dartmouth College	8	$80,480
30	Van Andel Research Institute	8	$74,747
31	Waymo	7	$192,714
32	Harvard University	7	$95,893
33	Virginia Polytechnic Institute And Stateuniversity	7	$90,053
34	Qps	7	$88,564
35	Princeton Global Syntheses	7	$78,570
36	Netflix	6	$276,883
37	Research Foundation For The State University Of New York - Albany	6	$205,367
38	Kla	6	$131,694
39	The Catholic University Of America	6	$103,492
40	Bay Area Environmental Research Institute	6	$91,050
41	Texas Am University	6	$65,994
42	Massachusetts Eye And Ear Infirmary	5	$82,119
43	California Institute Of Technology/jet Propulsion Laboratory	5	$81,071
44	University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	5	$74,551
45	University Of Oklahoma	5	$70,100
46	Virginia Commonwealth University	5	$64,303
47	Nomos Ai	4	$200,000
48	The Feinstein Institutes For Medical Research	4	$96,119
49	Scientific Forming Technologies	4	$85,545
50	The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	4	$82,000

The above report lists the top 1 - 50 H1B Visa sponsors(research-scientist) in fiscal year 2024). For Example, the first record on this report means that Meta Platforms filed 382 Labor Condition Applications(LCA) for H1B Visa in fiscal year 2024. The average salary of those job offerss is $193,793. The number and average salary are not for all H1B Visa jobs filed by Meta Platforms in fiscal year 2024. They are for research-scientist jobs only.

The visa sponsors(employers) are sorted by the number of Labor Condition Application(LCA) submitted. The number includes new, renew and transfer of LCA.

If two employers have filed same number of visa petitions 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 LCA or Form 9035. Sometimes the visa sponsors(employers) does not enter a specific salary, but a salary range. Our algorithm uses the middle point of the range to calculate the average salary.

*: The number of LCA includes renewed, transferred and cap-exempt LCA. Department of Labor(DOL) typically certifies more than 3 times the number of foreign work requests than the number of H-1B visas issued by USCIS.

A new LCA is needed if the foreigner worker changes his or her work location(even within the same state and same company), because the prevailing wage of the position depends on geographic location. However, if the new location is within the same Metropolitan Statistical Area or normal commuting distance, no new LCA is needed.