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H-1B salaries and sponsorship, from 1,937 certified filings (FY2025–FY2026)

Active H-1B filer · last filed FY2026 Q3
  • Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
  • Headquarters: Mountain View, Sunnyvale
  • Founded 2003
  • 11,800 employees (2018)
Median base salary$177,681+45% vs. all H-1B employers
Middle 50%$151.8k–$200k
Level III (senior) share48%all employers: 21%
Median prevailing wage$174,304the required minimum for these jobs and places

At a glance

  • LinkedIn hires senior. 48% of its filings are Level III, 2.3 times the share across all H-1B employers (21%).
  • Most filed: Software Engineer. 63% of its filings. After that come Data Scientist and IT Manager.
  • Pays at a high floor. 71% of filings are at exactly the prevailing wage, which at LinkedIn's jobs and locations has a median of $174,304.
  • 1st among the largest filers in its industry. LinkedIn's median ($177,681) is above Mongodb.

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10th $134.7k25th $151.8kmedian $177.7k75th $200k90th $226.2k

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Percentiles from LinkedIn's certified H-1B filings, base salary only. Jobs with at least 10 filings.

What LinkedIn hires for

Software Engineer1,229 filings · 63%$179,079 Data Scientist290 filings · 15%$174,503 IT Manager115 filings · 6%$234,233 Project Manager90 filings · 5%$154,000 Operations Research Analyst86 filings · 4%$139,597 Graphic Designer40 filings · 2%$130,932 Financial Analyst19 filings · 1%$171,454 Market Research Analyst16 filings · 1%$148,500

Bar: share of LinkedIn's filings. Figure: median base salary. Top 10 jobs account for 99% of filings (22 occupations in total).

Show all 10 jobs
JobMedianFilings
Software Engineer$179,0791,229
Data Scientist$174,503290
IT Manager$234,233115
Project Manager$154,00090
Operations Research Analyst$139,59786
Graphic Designer$130,93240
Financial Analyst$171,45419
Market Research Analyst$148,50016
Statistician$167,10714
Information Security Analyst$170,64312

Jobs with at least 10 filings at LinkedIn.

Pay by level

too fewLevel I
Entry-level · 0% of filings
$149.2kLevel II
Mid-level · 20% of filings
$180.4kLevel III
Senior · 48% of filings
$212.2kLevel IV
Expert · 31% of filings
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By experience level

Wage levelMedianFilings
Entry-level · Level I too few 3
Mid-level · Level II $149,240 206
Senior · Level III $180,419 482
Expert · Level IV $212,202 316

Median shown when a level has at least 10 filings.

LinkedIn vs. industry peers

LinkedIn logoLinkedIn$177,681 Mongodb logoMongodb$173,000 Cloudflare logoCloudflare$160,000 Akamai Technologies logoAkamai Technologies$155,000 Epsilon Data Management$140,100 Fiserv Solutions logoFiserv Solutions$131,997 ADP logoADP$127,504

Median base salary, all jobs, FY2025–FY2026. Largest H-1B filers with the same industry code (NAICS 5182).

Where LinkedIn files

San Jose, CA$185,1121,397 filings · rent 1BR $2,778 New York, NY$154,000179 filings · rent 1BR $2,729 San Francisco, CA$161,637163 filings · rent 1BR $2,290 Seattle, WA$163,862119 filings · rent 1BR $2,180 · no state income tax Dallas, TX$147,00013 filings · rent 1BR $1,536 · no state income tax

Median base salary in each metro area. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent, FY2027.

Show all 5 metro areas
Metro areaMedianFilings
San Jose, CA$185,1121,397
New York, NY$154,000179
San Francisco, CA$161,637163
Seattle, WA$163,862119
Dallas, TX$147,00013

Salary details

Median salary$177,681
Middle 50%$151.8k–$200k
vs. all employers+45%comparison median $122,699
Filings1,937FY2025–FY2026 · latest two fiscal years

Salary range

Box: middle 50% of filings. Whiskers: 10th–90th percentile. 99% of filings are between $113,418 and $273,915.
PercentileSalary
10th$134,688
25th$151,819
50th (median)$177,681
75th$200,000
90th$226,158

Salary by year

Median salary

$110k $150k $190k FY2020: median $131,726 (1,133 filings) FY2021: median $145,725 (1,041 filings) FY2022: median $157,477 (1,461 filings) FY2023: median $161,340 (912 filings) FY2024: median $158,722 (1,104 filings) FY2025: median $172,931 (891 filings) FY2026: median $179,079 (1,046 filings) FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25 FY26

Filings per year

FY2020: 1,133 filings FY20 FY2021: 1,041 filings FY21 FY2022: 1,461 filings FY22 FY2023: 912 filings FY23 FY2024: 1,104 filings FY24 FY2025: 891 filings FY25 FY2026: 1,046 filings FY26 1,461
Shaded: FY2025–FY2026, the years behind the figures above. Median shown for years with at least 10 filings. FY2026 covers Q1–Q3 only.
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Fiscal yearMedianP25P75Filings
FY2020$131,726$120,578$147,5341,133
FY2021$145,725$124,816$157,4771,041
FY2022$157,477$130,894$165,3811,461
FY2023$161,340$134,000$188,364912
FY2024$158,722$140,394$187,7371,104
FY2025$172,931$150,000$199,534891
FY2026$179,079$153,493$207,0001,046

Pay vs. prevailing wage

Median offered salary$177,681
Median prevailing wage$174,304
Median difference0.0%offered salary vs. prevailing wage, per filing
Filed at exactly the prevailing wage71%

Filing at exactly the prevailing wage does not mean low pay: at senior levels and in high-cost areas the prevailing wage itself is high.

Job titles at LinkedIn

Job titleMedianMiddle 50%Filings
Senior Software Engineer$179,079$151.8k–$186.1k336
Senior Software Engineer Systems Infrastructure$177,681$170k–$199.5k228
Senior Software Engineer Machine Learning$190,942$179.3k–$199.5k148
Software Engineer$148,740$124k–$153.5k146
Staff Software Engineer$213,512$202.3k–$226.2k131
Software Engineer Systems Infrastructure$147,182$139k–$172.9k109
Staff Software Engineer Systems Infrastructure$208,166$207k–$226.2k94
Software Engineer Machine Learning$172,931$161.6k–$174.3k84
Manager Software Engineering$231,601$208.4k–$244.8k40
Staff Software Engineer Machine Learning$226,158$217.5k–$227.3k39
Product Manager$150,426$150k–$154k23
Senior Data Scientist$162,268$147k–$180.1k21
Product Designer$123,000$119k–$123k19
Manager Software Engineering Systems Infrastructure$225,464$218.3k–$251k18
Manager Strategic Finance$152,000$152k–$172.4k16
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Job titleMedianMiddle 50%Filings
Senior Associate Strategic Finance$125,694$122.7k–$142.6k15
Strategic Operations Lead AI Data Operations$190,000$155.1k–$207.6k15
Senior Software Engineer Data Science$176,243$164.5k–$186.1k14
Staff Data Scientist$199,072$179.9k–$209.9k14
Senior Staff Software Engineer Systems Infrastructure$264,514$233k–$264.5k13
Senior Sales Operations Associate$128,000$117k–$128k11
Software Engineer Data Science$137,396$135.3k–$148.7k11
Senior Technical Program Manager$150,322$150.2k–$150.4k10
Staff Technical Program Manager$179,171$179.2k–$179.4k10

Job titles as written on the filings, with at least 10 filings. Middle 50%: 25th–75th percentile.

About LinkedIn

LinkedIn's filings list its industry as Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (Information sector, NAICS 5182). Its main U.S. filing address is in Sunnyvale, CA and its filings in the data run from FY2020 to FY2026 Q3. In the latest two fiscal years, the most filed jobs are Software Engineer, Data Scientist and IT Manager and the main metro areas are San Jose, CA, New York, NY and San Francisco, CA. The most common wage level in those years is Level III (senior).

Founded
2003
Headquarters
Mountain View, Sunnyvale
Employees
11,800 (2018)

Company facts on this page: Wikidata. Salary data: U.S. Department of Labor.

Questions

Does LinkedIn sponsor H-1B visas?

Yes. LinkedIn filed 1,937 certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications in FY2025–FY2026, the latest two fiscal years. The most recent filing in the data is from FY2026 Q3. A certified LCA is a step before the H-1B petition; it is not a visa approval.

How much does LinkedIn pay H-1B workers?

The median base salary on LinkedIn's H-1B filings is $177,681; half of filings fall between $151,819 and $200,000. Bonus and stock are not included.