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H-1B filed wages in San Francisco, CA

70,337 certified filings with a worksite in this city · FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3)

Reported wages are what employers filed with the Department of Labor — not actual take-home pay. Filings are counted by worksite, so a company headquartered elsewhere appears here if the job is here.

Median filed wage in San Francisco

DOL LCA · FY2025
$175,463
n = 10,879filings with a wage

FY2025 median across the 10,879 filings that reported a wage for a worksite in San Francisco, CA — of 70,337 certified filings in total. DOL LCA · FY2025

Fiscal yearFiled wageWage sample (n)
FY2026 (through Q3)$187,341
median of 9,408
9,408
FY2025$175,463
median of 10,879
10,879
FY2024$170,186
median of 10,352
10,352
FY2023$160,000
median of 11,074
11,074
FY2022$157,500
median of 14,748
14,748
FY2021$145,246
median of 13,799
13,799

How these wages are computed · All cities · All job titles

Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035) · Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Updated 2026-08-28 · Basis worksite city as filed; median not average

How this city maps to a federal statistical area

scope

Filings from San Francisco, CA fall inside the federal statistical area SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND-HAYWARD, CA. That area is larger than this city — it spans several cities and, where the name says so, more than one state. Everything on this page is computed from filings whose worksite city is San Francisco itself, so the numbers above are city figures, not area figures.

Employers filing the most roles in San Francisco

top 23 by volume
EmployerFiled wageWage sample (n)
Google LLC$173,000
median of 2,143
2,143
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP$130,960
median of 2,022
2,022
Uber Technologies, Inc.$171,000
median of 1,972
1,972
University of California, San Francisco$80,800
median of 1,628
1,628
Salesforce$169,562
median of 1,325
1,325
DoorDash, Inc.$185,000
median of 1,231
1,231
Airbnb, Inc.$191,000
median of 860
860
Cruise LLC$194,000
median of 817
817
Cisco Systems, Inc.$149,357
median of 734
734
Autodesk, Inc.$150,960
median of 716
716
Amazon$180,700
median of 671
671
Adobe Inc.$165,000
median of 660
660
Pinterest, Inc.$158,142
median of 623
623
Lyft, Inc.$170,000
median of 604
604
LinkedIn Corporation$146,000
median of 535
535
DocuSign Inc.$187,376
median of 535
535
Meta$204,981
median of 531
531
Databricks, Inc.$165,000
median of 494
494
Chime Financial, Inc.$195,000
median of 468
468
Twitter, Inc.$175,000
median of 457
457
Microsoft Corporation$180,000
median of 409
409
OpenAI OpCo, LLC$290,000
median of 393
393
Twitch Interactive, Inc.$172,475
median of 381
381

Ranked by number of filings, not by pay and not by quality. This is not a “best employers” list. Employers with fewer than 10 filings here show the count only. 6,991 employers in total filed for a worksite in San Francisco; the 23 above are those with the most filings. Those with at least 10 certified filings have their own page; the rest are counted here but do not.

Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035) · Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Updated 2026-08-28 ·Basis worksite city as filed; counted across the whole coverage period, not one year

Other employers with a filing address in San Francisco

100+ with their own page

The table above ranks employers by how many roles they filed for a worksite here. This list is a different question: employers whose filing address is in San Francisco, CA, that have their own page, and that are not already in that table. The two are not the same set — an employer can be headquartered here and file most of its roles elsewhere.

Atlassian US, Inc. (1,355) · Twilio, Inc. (1,223) · Social Finance, LLC (848) · Maplebear Inc. (836) · Splunk Inc. (806) · Okta, Inc. (801) · Affirm, Inc. (703) · Dropbox, Inc. (672) · Cloudflare, Inc. (625) · The Gap, Inc. (468) · M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc. (440) · People Center, Inc. (440) · Reddit, Inc. (439) · Anthropic, PBC (422) · Flexport, Inc. (421) · Asana, Inc. (399) · Zendesk, Inc. (387) · Unity Technologies SF (341) · First Republic Bank (336) · Yelp Inc. (320) · Samsara Inc. (298) · Anaplan, Inc. (295) · Square, Inc. (288) · Brex Inc. (271) · Levi Strauss & Co. (268) · Sephora USA, Inc. (263) · Delta Dental Of California (250) · Scale AI, Inc. (242) · Gusto, Inc. (239) · Prosper Marketplace, Inc. (236) · Figma, Inc. (235) · Thumbtack, Inc. (230) · ContextLogic Inc., dba Wish (227) · Niantic, Inc. (226) · Afterpay US, Inc. (221) · Nextdoor, Inc. (217) · Plaid Inc. (217) · Turo, Inc. (211) · Ripple Labs, Inc. (208) · LiveRamp, Inc. (206) · Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (206) · Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (203) · Crusoe Energy Systems, Inc. (199) · Medallia, Inc. (195) · Deel US LLC (194) · Bank of the West (191) · Gap Inc. (188) · Litmus7 Systems Consulting Inc. (187) · Glassdoor, Inc. (180) · Upgrade, Inc. (171) · HashiCorp, Inc. (149) · Grammarly, Inc. (147) · Udemy, Inc. (145) · Stitch Fix, Inc. (144) · Formagrid, Inc. (139) · InnovAccer Inc. (136) · Amplitude, Inc. (135) · Neutron Holdings Inc. (134) · Discord, Inc. (133) · Harness, Inc. (133) · Blend Labs Inc. (132) · Upwork, Inc. (131) · T.Y. Lin International (129) · Sigma Computing, Inc. (128) · Tubi, Inc. (128) · Notion Labs, Inc. (125) · Sunrun, Inc. (121) · Climate LLC (118) · NerdWallet, Inc. (118) · Ironclad, Inc. (117) · Elasticsearch, Inc. (114) · Globant IT Services Corp. (109) · Castlight Health, Inc. (107) · Invitae Corporation (104) · 6sense Insights, Inc. (103) · Faire Wholesale, Inc. (103) · Komodo Health, Inc. (100) · Varo Bank N.A. (100) · Collectivehealth, Inc. (98) · Hinge Health, Inc. (97) · Patreon, Inc. (93) · ZipHQ, Inc. (93) · Checkr, Inc. (92) · Coalition, Inc. (88) · Adyen N.V. (86) · Sysdig, Inc. (85) · Bolt Financial, Inc. (84) · Abnormal Security Corporation (82) · MyVest Corporation (82) · Hims, Inc. (80) · Benchling, Inc. (79) · Anyscale, Inc. (77) · Quantcast Corporation (77) · Vanta Inc. (74) · Riverbed Technology, Inc. (73) · Credible Labs, Inc. (70) · CZ Biohub SF, LLC (70) · Ethos Technologies Inc. (68) · Mixpanel Inc. (68) · Slack Technologies, Inc. (68)

Showing the 100 largest by filing count — there are more. This list is truncated, not complete.

Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035, employer address as filed) ·Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Basis employer filing address, not worksite; counts are that employer’s certified filings everywhere, not only in San Francisco

Layoff notices in CA

State WARN notices

We have loaded California WARN notices (2018-11-15 to 2026-08-24, 13,739 notices). Layoff notices for a specific company appear on that company's page.

Which cities have a page

We build a page for a city once it has at least 50 certified filings — 2,578 cities qualify, and 2,298 of those also clear our content threshold and are listed in the city index. Below the filing threshold we do not publish a median, because a median from a small number of filings reads like a market rate and is not one. Those filings are still counted on their employer's page.