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Data signal · Work visas

Where the H-1B sponsors are

ReportedFY2023

409

of the 2,614 listed sponsors have most of their approvals in California

What the data shows

  • Of the 2,614 employers in ImmigrationClock's H-1B directory, the five states where the most sponsors concentrate their approvals are California (409), Texas (354), New Jersey (324), New York (157) and Illinois (147).
  • Those five states account for 1,391 of the 2,614 listed sponsors — 53.2%.
  • The state is each employer's top state by approvals in the USCIS export for fiscal year 2023; an employer with worksites in several states is counted once, in the state with the most.

Caveats

  • This counts employers, not petitions or workers. A state with many small sponsors ranks above a state with a few very large ones.
  • Directory coverage is employers with at least 10 approvals in fiscal year 2023.

Source and method

USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub

Reported: the underlying figures were published by the agency named above. ImmigrationClock computed the figure from that publication and typed nothing in. Period: FY2023. Computed on Sep 15, 2026.

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