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Which US employers actually sponsor H-1B workers?
Four years of US government filings, searchable: 61,139 employers that actually brought someone in from outside between FY2020 and FY2023, with what each one filed in every year and whether they are growing or winding down. Employers that only ever renewed staff they already had are filtered out, so what you are searching is the list that can actually hire you.
You now know who sponsors. The harder question is which route is yours.
There are nine routes to US permanent residence and most people are only ever told about one. Two of them need no employer at all. The Atlas is all four years as one spreadsheet you can sort offline — all 108,777 employers, including the 47,638 that renew rather than hire from outside, which are the ones that matter if you already hold a visa and want to transfer.
Know someone still guessing which companies sponsor? This page is free and always will be.
Source: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, fiscal years 2020 to 2023 — every year USCIS publishes as a downloadable file, checked 3 October 2026. FY2023 is published only in part and is shown for completeness; trends are measured across FY2020 to FY2022, the complete years. Counts are petitions approved for that employer in that year — not open vacancies, not an endorsement, and not a job guarantee. Cap-exempt status is a legal determination about a specific employer and petition: this flags candidates from the employer's name, and you must confirm it with the employer. Nothing here is legal advice.
The data
What this list is, and what it is not
Is this every H-1B employer?
It is every employer that brought at least one person in from outside the United States in any of the four fiscal years 2020 to 2023 — 61,139 of them. The government files hold 108,777 employers in total, but 47,638 of those only ever renewed workers they already had and never hired from outside. Those are filtered out here because they are not leads.
They are in the full Atlas, where they matter: if you already hold an H-1B and want to transfer, an employer that renews is exactly who you want.
Why four years instead of the latest one?
Because one year cannot show you a trend, and the trend is most of the signal. Amazon brought in 3,778 people from outside in FY2020 and 1,084 in FY2022. Stanford went the other way. A single-year list cannot tell those two apart, and which direction a company is moving is what you want to know before spending three months applying there.
Four years also smooths out the noise. An employer that sponsored in all four years has a process and counsel who know it. One that appears once may have made a single exception for one person.
Why does FY2023 look so low?
Because the file USCIS has published for FY2023 is incomplete — roughly a quarter of a year. Across the four years the national totals run 122,893, then 141,194, then 138,378 new approvals, and then 38,314. Google reads 56 new hires in FY2023 against 1,562 in FY2022; Microsoft 42 against 1,008. Those companies did not cut sponsorship by 96% in a year.
We show FY2023 rather than quietly dropping it, we label it partial everywhere it appears, and we never let it move a trend. Every growing/shrinking marker on this page is measured across FY2020 to FY2022, the complete years. FY2023 is the most recent year USCIS publishes as a downloadable file at all — there is no FY2024 or FY2025 bulk export, checked 3 October 2026.
Does an employer appearing here mean they are hiring now?
No. These are petitions USCIS approved for that employer in those years. They tell you the company has sponsored before, knows the process, and has counsel who can do it again — which is the thing you cannot learn from a job board. They are not open vacancies and not a promise.
What does cap-exempt mean, and can I trust the flag?
Universities, their affiliated non-profits, and non-profit or government research organisations are exempt from the H-1B lottery under INA 214(g)(5). They can petition at any time of year, for anyone, with no cap. That is the single most useful filter on this page if you have missed a cap season — and their share is growing: 15.0% of all new H-1B hires in FY2022 went to cap-exempt employers, up from 11.6% in FY2020.
The flag is a candidate, not a determination. It is inferred from the employer's legal name, so it finds the obvious cases and will miss an affiliated non-profit whose name does not say so. Confirm it with the employer before you plan around it.
Why is a company listed in a state I did not expect?
The state and city are the address on the petition, which for a large institution is often its filing agent or a central HR office rather than the campus or office you would work at. Harvard University, for example, files under New York. Use the state filter to narrow a search, not to rule a company out.
The same caution applies to names: the data holds legal entity names, so one organisation can appear as several entries that spell themselves differently. The totals here are per entry, not per institution.
Why is this free?
Because it answers the easy half of the question. Knowing who sponsors does not tell you which of the nine routes to permanent residence is actually open to you, what each costs, how long it takes, or that two of them need no employer at all. That is what we sell. If this page is useful on its own, send it to someone — that is what it is for.