H-1B sponsors report
Top H-1B Sponsors for Staff Engineer in San Francisco (2026)
San Francisco has the highest concentration of H-1B tech sponsorship in the US on a per-capita basis. Both frontier-model AI labs and large public tech companies file heavily here — the same employers who show up on the Salary report.
Total certified LCAs
1,307
Staff Engineer across all sponsoring employers
Median offered wage
$214K
Annualized, across all matching filings
Sponsors listed
15
Top employers by LCA volume
Top employers filing H-1Bs for staff engineers in San Francisco
Aggregated from certified Labor Condition Applications filed with the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Foreign Labor Certification. Data window: FY2024 Q1 – FY2026 Q3.
| Employer | Certified filings | Median wage | Prevailing wage | Latest filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce, Inc. | 416 | $218K | $188K | 2026-06-30 |
| Google LLC | 123 | $200K | $162K | 2026-06-29 |
| AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC | 120 | $175K | $162K | 2026-06-30 |
| Anthropic, PBC | 108 | $282K | $188K | 2026-06-24 |
| Uber Technologies, Inc. | 81 | $203K | $188K | 2026-06-26 |
| AIRBNB, INC. | 79 | $230K | $188K | 2026-06-30 |
| OpenAI OpCo, LLC | 55 | $310K | $162K | 2026-06-30 |
| Resolve AI, Inc. | 48 | $214K | $188K | 2026-06-25 |
| DoorDash, Inc. | 43 | $209K | $162K | 2026-06-29 |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | 42 | $233K | $188K | 2026-06-25 |
| LINKEDIN CORPORATION | 41 | $221K | $183K | 2026-06-05 |
| DocuSign, Inc. | 39 | $246K | $214K | 2026-06-26 |
| AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. | 38 | $187K | $162K | 2026-06-30 |
| Crusoe Energy Systems LLC | 37 | $230K | $188K | 2026-05-18 |
| Databricks, Inc. | 37 | $199K | $162K | 2026-06-26 |
Methodology
SOC 15-1252 and 15-1256 (Software Developers / Software Engineers) at senior levels. LCAs do not encode seniority so this counts the same population as backend/full-stack; wage percentiles skew higher at staff level. Only certified LCAs are counted (Denied and Withdrawn filings are excluded). Wages are annualized where filed in hourly, weekly, biweekly, or monthly units. Range wages are collapsed to the midpoint before annualizing. Employer names are grouped by a suffix-stripped normalization so "Google LLC" and "GOOGLE LLC" collapse to one row.
Source: U.S. DOL OFLC Performance Data · FY2024 Q1 – FY2026 Q3
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