H-1B sponsors in California 2026: the top 25 by certified cases

Jobs in California drew 82,020 certified H-1B cases from 12,376 employers between October 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026, the first nine months of fiscal 2026. The count goes by worksite, so a case belongs to California when the first job location on it is in the state. Google LLC filed the most, 5,105 cases, ahead of Apple Inc. with 4,304. Each case is a labor condition application that the Department of Labor certified, the filing an employer makes before it petitions for an H-1B worker.

The California employer list holds 37,898 employers with H-1B and PERM filings at a California worksite, from certified cases decided October 1, 2022 to June 30, 2026. Its free button gives you the first 200 rows. The page sells all 37,898 rows for $458.98. About 723 rows join the list each month, and they come each week by email for $36.15 a month.

The top 25 H-1B sponsors in California

Cases count only where the first worksite is in California. Positions are the number of workers the cases ask for. The last column is the same employer's California count from October 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025.

Rank	Employer	Certified cases	Positions	Most common job title	Median offered wage	Cases, same months of fiscal 2025
1	Google LLC	5,105	5,996	Software Engineer	$200,000	5,214
2	Apple Inc.	4,304	11,756	Software Development Engineering	$178,673	3,678
3	Meta Platforms, Inc	2,965	6,373	Software Engineer	$217,853	3,320
4	Amazon.com Services LLC	2,060	8,928	Software Dev Engineer II	$179,500	2,391
5	NVIDIA Corporation	1,857	7,081	Engineer Senior Systems Software	$190,713	893
6	Tesla, Inc.	1,716	2,053	Software Development Engineer	$168,214	1,536
7	TT Commerce & Global Services LLC	868	1,396	Software Engineer	$196,000	0
8	LinkedIn Corporation	863	3,187	Sr. Software Engineer	$182,523	618
9	Wal-Mart Associates, Inc.	825	825	Senior, Software Engineer	$150,080	1,130
10	Adobe Inc.	803	803	Software Development Engineer	$189,892	737
11	Salesforce, Inc.	744	1,067	Software Engineering SMTS	$213,064	615
12	Ernst & Young U.S. LLP	736	736	Information Security Analysts - KBGFJG119560-12	$157,500	1,254
13	PayPal, Inc.	734	734	Software Engineer	$180,514	536
14	Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.	647	59,060	Senior ASICS Engineer	$155,464	1,446
15	Microsoft Corporation	639	735	Software Engineering	$200,620	872
16	Cisco Systems, Inc.	563	7,827	Software Engineer	$177,600	454
17	Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.	515	1,343	Software Dev Engineer I	$174,960	475
18	Intel Corporation	488	929	Component Design Engineer	$161,637	647
19	Infosys Limited	484	932	Technology Consultant 2	$139,443	281
20	Intuit Inc.	444	1,585	Senior Data Scientist	$186,182	411
21	Uber Technologies, Inc.	428	553	Software Engineer	$199,200	416
22	ByteDance Inc.	423	607	Software Engineer	$247,284	762
23	Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp	415	415	Manager JC50 - Computer Systems Engineers/Architects	$138,445	555
24	eBay Inc.	400	400	MTS 1, Software Engineer	$207,630	265
25	ServiceNow, Inc.	359	1,247	Senior Software Engineer	$170,248	538

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has the widest gap between the two counts: 647 cases asked for 59,060 positions. ByteDance Inc. has the highest median offer in the table, $247,284 a year, and Meta Platforms, Inc follows at $217,853.

Where in California

San Francisco leads with 9,468 cases, and San Jose is close behind with 9,144. Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and Mountain View fill the next three places. Los Angeles closes the ten with 2,748. In all, 724 California cities have at least one certified case in the window.

Rank	Worksite city	Certified cases
1	San Francisco	9,468
2	San Jose	9,144
3	Sunnyvale	8,222
4	Santa Clara	6,356
5	Mountain View	4,923
6	San Diego	3,113
7	Menlo Park	2,876
8	Palo Alto	2,856
9	Cupertino	2,786
10	Los Angeles	2,748

The jobs and what they offer

Software Engineer is the title on 8,288 California cases, at a median of $188,000. That is nearly six times the next title, Senior Software Engineer, with 1,408. Staff Software Engineer has the highest median of the ten, $216,666, and Software Developer the lowest, $139,500. Research Scientist and Data Scientist both make the list, at $201,094 and $172,100. Across every California case with a wage, the median offer is $165,000 a year.

Rank	Job title as filed	Certified cases	Median offered wage
1	Software Engineer	8,288	$188,000
2	Senior Software Engineer	1,408	$195,000
3	Research Scientist	795	$201,094
4	Data Scientist	716	$172,100
5	Staff Software Engineer	655	$216,666
6	Software Developer	599	$139,500
7	Product Manager	557	$189,000
8	Software Development Engineer	537	$177,000
9	Member of Technical Staff	529	$200,000
10	Machine Learning Engineer	454	$187,658

Against last year

From October 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, California worksites had 83,864 certified cases from 12,671 employers. Both counts are slightly lower this year. Positions moved the other way, from 161,592 to 236,094.

Inside the top 25, NVIDIA Corporation more than doubled, from 893 cases to 1,857. TT Commerce & Global Services LLC had no certified California case a year earlier and has 868 now. Apple Inc. rose from 3,678 to 4,304, and LinkedIn Corporation from 618 to 863. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. fell from 1,446 to 647, Ernst & Young U.S. LLP from 1,254 to 736, and ByteDance Inc. from 762 to 423.

The ranking for the whole country puts these California counts next to every other state.

How to read these numbers

Worksite state is the state of the first worksite on a case. An employer based elsewhere still counts here when that first worksite is in California, and 22,816 of this year's California cases come from employers that filed from another state.

Names stay as the employer wrote them. Of the 25 employers above, 24 file under more than one spelling, and the spellings are not merged, so Amazon.com Services LLC and Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. are separate rows. Two of the 25 carry a staffing or consulting word in their name, and none carries a university word.

Offered wage is the wage on the application, turned into a yearly figure from the low end of its range. The medians leave out the 59 California cases that print no wage. Job titles are the employer's own text, so Ernst & Young U.S. LLP's most common title carries a code from its filings.

The cases come from the Department of Labor's OFLC performance data, in the labor condition application disclosure file for fiscal 2026 through the third quarter.