Sponsor FinderSOC 19-2012Updated September 2026
H-1B Sponsors for Physicists
109 employers filed 10,969 H-1B Labor Condition Applications for Physicists across the US between FY2010 and FY2026. The 50 largest are ranked below, with DOL certification outcomes and a sponsor-health signal.
- Employers
- 109top 50 listed
- Filings
- 10,96938% of all 29,090 for this role
- Certified
- 77.5%across those listed
- Median wage
- $71,406across the sponsors listed
How this total is counted: filings from employers with at least 25 for this occupation, a resolved employer and a recorded worksite state. That is 10,969 of the 29,090 total shown on the Physicists occupation page (38%); the remainder is the long tail of employers below the publishing threshold.
How to read this
- Does an H-1B filing mean a visa was granted?
- No. A Labor Condition Application is the wage-and-worksite filing an employer makes before petitioning. Many certified LCAs never become petitions, and an LCA is not a visa. What an LCA is.
- Is a certified filing the same as USCIS approval?
- No. Certification is a Department of Labor outcome. The I-129 petition is decided separately by USCIS and is not in this dataset. How certification rate works.
- Does a withdrawn filing count against a sponsor?
- No. A withdrawal usually means the role was filled or dropped, so it is not a compliance signal and is not counted against a sponsor in the sponsor-health score. How sponsor health is calculated.
- Is the wage shown what an employee takes home?
- No. Offered and prevailing wages are the figures on the filing, before tax, bonus or equity, and they describe the role rather than an individual paycheck. How the prevailing wage works.
- Is the most recent fiscal year complete?
- Not necessarily. The Department of Labor releases disclosure data quarterly, so counts for the latest fiscal years can still rise in a later release.
- Why are some occupations or states missing?
- Combinations backed by fewer than 25 filings, or fewer than 3 distinct employers, are not published at all. Small cells are omitted entirely rather than shown with unreliable numbers.
Top 50 sponsors, ranked
The 50 highest-volume of 109 employers that filed for this role here. Filter and sort instantly — everything below is already on the page, so nothing reloads. Your view is shareable: the URL updates as you filter.
Derived from DOL certification and denial outcomes and recent filing volume. It describes DOL paperwork outcomes only — not USCIS approval, job quality, or an endorsement. Withdrawn filings are not counted against a sponsor. Full methodology at /methodology#sponsor-healthNot enough recent filings to score this sponsor for this role and location — fewer than 25 filings, or none in the last 5 fiscal years. Absence of a score is not a negative signal. Full methodology at /methodology#sponsor-health
This employer filed at least one WARN Act notice in the last 24 months — a state-mandated advance announcement of a planned mass layoff or closure. A notice is an announcement, not a completed layoff, and it is not evidence of any link between the employer’s H-1B filings and its workforce plans.
Showing 50 of 50 sponsors · all filings FY2010–FY2026.
| # | Wage levels | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 868 | 62.2% | $75,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 50%, Level II: 14%, Level III: 32%, Level IV: 5% | |
| 2 | Meta Platforms, Inc | 752 | 99.6% | $201,680 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 11%, Level II: 56%, Level III: 16%, Level IV: 18% | |
| 3 | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 474 | 93.2% | $114,800 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 25%, Level II: 14%, Level III: 53%, Level IV: 8% | |
| 4 | FACEBOOK, INC.last filed FY2019 | 378 | 90.7% | $140,000 | — | |
| 5 | Intel Corporation | 371 | 91.1% | $117,412 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 43%, Level II: 15%, Level III: 40%, Level IV: 1% | |
| 6 | UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEElast filed FY2019 | 360 | 69.2% | $53,000 | — | |
| 7 | The University of Virginia | 357 | 75.1% | $55,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 69%, Level II: 25%, Level III: 7% | |
| 8 | The Ohio State University | 284 | 63.4% | $69,160 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 36%, Level II: 15%, Level III: 45%, Level IV: 4% | |
| 9 | THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | 253 | 54.9% | $61,744 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 97%, Level II: 3% | |
| 10 | Battelle Memorial Institute | 222 | 69.8% | $71,500 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 69%, Level II: 31% | |
| 11 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | 222 | 67.1% | $56,200 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 39%, Level II: 51%, Level III: 10% | |
| 12 | The Leland Stanford, Jr University | 208 | 85.6% | $85,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 55%, Level II: 28%, Level III: 11%, Level IV: 6% | |
| 13 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 193 | 92.2% | $100,008 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 2%, Level II: 24%, Level III: 52%, Level IV: 21% | |
| 14 | Eli Lilly and Company | 184 | 63.6% | $105,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 75%, Level IV: 25% | |
| 15 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | 166 | 77.1% | $60,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 41%, Level II: 13%, Level III: 38%, Level IV: 9% | |
| 16 | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC | 146 | 76.7% | $142,506 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 3%, Level II: 46%, Level III: 34%, Level IV: 18% | |
| 17 | Research Foundation for the State University of New York last filed FY2023 | 141 | 58.9% | $59,511 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 100% | |
| 18 | Google LLClast filed FY2023 | 134 | 69.4% | $138,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 83%, Level III: 17% | |
| 19 | The Florida State University | 132 | 66.7% | $76,877 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 62%, Level II: 7%, Level III: 31% | |
| 20 | Brigham and Women's Hospital | 126 | 84.1% | $71,406 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 54%, Level II: 31%, Level III: 11%, Level IV: 3% | |
| 21 | The Research Foundation for SUNY Upstate Medical University | 124 | 85.5% | $70,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 59%, Level II: 33%, Level III: 7%, Level IV: 2% | |
| 22 | TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | 118 | 71.2% | $66,975 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 62%, Level II: 36%, Level III: 2% | |
| 23 | State University of New York, Upstate Medical University | 117 | 72.6% | $65,966 | — | |
| 24 | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | 116 | 69.0% | $55,258 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 47%, Level II: 21%, Level III: 21%, Level IV: 11% | |
| 25 | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY) | 110 | 70.9% | $98,760 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 5%, Level II: 81%, Level III: 14% | |
| 26 | UChicago Argonne LLC | 106 | 80.2% | $86,023 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 56%, Level III: 44% | |
| 27 | Johns Hopkins University | 101 | 66.3% | $90,500 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 29%, Level III: 57%, Level IV: 14% | |
| 28 | NYU Grossman School of Medicine | 100 | 79.0% | $87,305 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 11%, Level II: 84%, Level III: 4%, Level IV: 1% | |
| 29 | General Hospital Corporation | 95 | 85.3% | $70,500 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 77%, Level II: 17%, Level III: 4%, Level IV: 2% | |
| 30 | KLA-TENCOR CORPORATIONlast filed FY2019 | 95 | 83.2% | $113,000 | — | |
| 31 | BYTEDANCE INC. | 92 | 93.5% | $252,300 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 26%, Level II: 26%, Level III: 19%, Level IV: 30% | |
| 32 | The University of Texas at Dallas | 91 | 87.9% | $53,926 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 4%, Level II: 96% | |
| 33 | Washington University | 88 | 61.4% | $46,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 60%, Level II: 40% | |
| 34 | DUKE UNIVERSITY AND MEDICAL CENTERlast filed FY2018 | 85 | 75.3% | $54,600 | — | |
| 35 | New York University | 85 | 87.1% | $72,280 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 32%, Level II: 43%, Level III: 21%, Level IV: 4% | |
| 36 | Fermi Research Alliance, LLC | 84 | 72.6% | $68,600 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 75%, Level II: 25% | |
| 37 | Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. | 79 | 92.4% | $63,665 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 54%, Level II: 21%, Level III: 17%, Level IV: 8% | |
| 38 | Purdue University | 72 | 66.7% | $80,030 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 4%, Level II: 24%, Level III: 30%, Level IV: 41% | |
| 39 | Bay Area Environmental Research Institute | 71 | 78.9% | $88,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 9%, Level II: 43%, Level III: 22%, Level IV: 26% | |
| 40 | precess medical derivatives | 70 | 98.6% | $97,760 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 42%, Level II: 24%, Level III: 7%, Level IV: 27% | |
| 41 | Schlumberger Technology Corporation | 70 | 75.7% | $96,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 9%, Level II: 64%, Level III: 27% | |
| 42 | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | 70 | 64.3% | $57,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 49%, Level II: 51% | |
| 43 | THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY AT BUFFALO STATElast filed FY2019 | 69 | 78.3% | $47,476 | — | |
| 44 | Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC | 68 | 66.2% | $76,877 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 68%, Level II: 32% | |
| 45 | Illinois State Universitylast filed FY2019 | 68 | 60.3% | $55,500 | — | |
| 46 | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | 68 | 51.5% | $57,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 100% | |
| 47 | UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | 68 | 80.9% | $60,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 29%, Level III: 57%, Level IV: 14% | |
| 48 | Siemens Corporation | 67 | 94.0% | $98,000 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 33%, Level II: 33%, Level IV: 33% | |
| 49 | The Curators of the University of Missouri | 67 | 71.6% | $50,856 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 45%, Level II: 52%, Level III: 3% | |
| 50 | W.M. RICE UNIVERSITY | 66 | 93.9% | $65,500 | Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 8%, Level II: 25%, Level III: 33%, Level IV: 33% |
- Filings
- 868
- Certified
- 62.2%
- Median wage
- $75,000
- Filings
- 752
- Certified
- 99.6%
- Median wage
- $201,680
- Filings
- 474
- Certified
- 93.2%
- Median wage
- $114,800
- Filings
- 378
- Certified
- 90.7%
- Median wage
- $140,000
- Filings
- 371
- Certified
- 91.1%
- Median wage
- $117,412
- Filings
- 360
- Certified
- 69.2%
- Median wage
- $53,000
- Filings
- 357
- Certified
- 75.1%
- Median wage
- $55,000
- Filings
- 284
- Certified
- 63.4%
- Median wage
- $69,160
- Filings
- 253
- Certified
- 54.9%
- Median wage
- $61,744
- Filings
- 222
- Certified
- 69.8%
- Median wage
- $71,500
- Filings
- 222
- Certified
- 67.1%
- Median wage
- $56,200
- Filings
- 208
- Certified
- 85.6%
- Median wage
- $85,000
- Filings
- 193
- Certified
- 92.2%
- Median wage
- $100,008
- Filings
- 184
- Certified
- 63.6%
- Median wage
- $105,000
- Filings
- 166
- Certified
- 77.1%
- Median wage
- $60,000
- Filings
- 146
- Certified
- 76.7%
- Median wage
- $142,506
- Filings
- 141
- Certified
- 58.9%
- Median wage
- $59,511
- Filings
- 134
- Certified
- 69.4%
- Median wage
- $138,000
- Filings
- 132
- Certified
- 66.7%
- Median wage
- $76,877
- Filings
- 126
- Certified
- 84.1%
- Median wage
- $71,406
- Filings
- 124
- Certified
- 85.5%
- Median wage
- $70,000
- Filings
- 118
- Certified
- 71.2%
- Median wage
- $66,975
- Filings
- 117
- Certified
- 72.6%
- Median wage
- $65,966
- Filings
- 116
- Certified
- 69.0%
- Median wage
- $55,258
- Filings
- 110
- Certified
- 70.9%
- Median wage
- $98,760
- Filings
- 106
- Certified
- 80.2%
- Median wage
- $86,023
- Filings
- 101
- Certified
- 66.3%
- Median wage
- $90,500
- Filings
- 100
- Certified
- 79.0%
- Median wage
- $87,305
- Filings
- 95
- Certified
- 85.3%
- Median wage
- $70,500
- Filings
- 95
- Certified
- 83.2%
- Median wage
- $113,000
- Filings
- 92
- Certified
- 93.5%
- Median wage
- $252,300
- Filings
- 91
- Certified
- 87.9%
- Median wage
- $53,926
- Filings
- 88
- Certified
- 61.4%
- Median wage
- $46,000
- Filings
- 85
- Certified
- 75.3%
- Median wage
- $54,600
- Filings
- 85
- Certified
- 87.1%
- Median wage
- $72,280
- Filings
- 84
- Certified
- 72.6%
- Median wage
- $68,600
- Filings
- 79
- Certified
- 92.4%
- Median wage
- $63,665
- Filings
- 72
- Certified
- 66.7%
- Median wage
- $80,030
- Filings
- 71
- Certified
- 78.9%
- Median wage
- $88,000
- Filings
- 70
- Certified
- 98.6%
- Median wage
- $97,760
- Filings
- 70
- Certified
- 75.7%
- Median wage
- $96,000
- Filings
- 70
- Certified
- 64.3%
- Median wage
- $57,000
- Filings
- 69
- Certified
- 78.3%
- Median wage
- $47,476
- Filings
- 68
- Certified
- 66.2%
- Median wage
- $76,877
- Filings
- 68
- Certified
- 60.3%
- Median wage
- $55,500
- Filings
- 68
- Certified
- 51.5%
- Median wage
- $57,000
- Filings
- 68
- Certified
- 80.9%
- Median wage
- $60,000
- Filings
- 67
- Certified
- 94.0%
- Median wage
- $98,000
- Filings
- 67
- Certified
- 71.6%
- Median wage
- $50,856
- Filings
- 66
- Certified
- 93.9%
- Median wage
- $65,500
How the sponsor-health signal is calculated
The badge blends each sponsor’s DOL certification rate (weighted toward the last five fiscal years), its denial rate, and its recent filing volume. Withdrawn filings are not counted against a sponsor, because a withdrawal usually means the role was filled or dropped. Sponsors with too few or too old filings show “Limited data” rather than a score. It reflects DOL paperwork outcomes only — not USCIS approval, pay quality, or an endorsement. Full methodology.
Where else Physicists is sponsored
Other states with enough Physicists filings to publish a sponsor breakdown.
Understand the data
Definitions and methodology behind these H-1B figures.