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Gilead Sciences, Inc.

H-1B visa and green card sponsorship record

Foster City, CA Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Files from CA, NJ, PA On record FY2020–FY2026

Yes — Gilead Sciences, Inc. sponsors H-1B visas.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) certified 267 of its H-1B filings in FY2025 and 169 so far in FY2026 (through June 30, 2026).

At a glance

Certified H-1B filings, FY2025
267 169 so far in FY2026
Median offered salary, FY2025
$137,218 from 267 filings
USCIS approval rate, FY2020–FY2022
100.0% of 65 new petitions
Green card filings (PERM), FY2025
73
E-Verify
On the list as of December 31, 2018
H-1B dependent
No

Fiscal years (FY) run October to September. Approval rates are from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Sponsorship score

9/10

Computed September 15, 2026 from its FY2020–FY2025 record.

  • Recent approvals 3/3

    26 new H-1B petitions approved by USCIS in FY2022

  • Entry-level hiring 2/3

    35% of 544 H-1B filings with a wage level were entry level (I or II), FY2023–FY2025

  • Files every year 2/2

    Certified H-1B filings in 3 of the 3 years FY2023–FY2025

  • Approval rate 2/2

    100.0% of 65 new petitions approved, FY2020–FY2022

H-1B filings (Department of Labor)

Before filing an H-1B petition, an employer must get a Labor Condition Application (LCA) certified by the Department of Labor. These are this company's LCAs, by fiscal year.

H-1B filings with the Department of Labor, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearFiledCertified H-1BDeniedWithdrawnEntry level
FY20201881860152% of 142
FY20212362341133% of 169
FY20222102080033% of 149
FY20232232190427% of 173
FY20242452403133% of 166
FY202526926701543% of 205
FY2026 so far17316911130% of 138
Certified H-1B filings, FY2020–FY2026. Tallest bar: FY2025, 267. Scaled to this chart's own tallest bar.

Entry level is the share of certified H-1B filings with a stated wage level that were level I or II.

“Filed”, “Denied” and “Withdrawn” count every LCA, including the E-3 and H-1B1 visas that use the same form; “Certified H-1B” counts H-1B only. A filing certified and later withdrawn counts in both columns.

FY2026 is in progress: data runs through June 30, 2026.

H-1B approvals (USCIS)

After DOL certifies an LCA, the employer files the H-1B petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which approves or denies it. New petitions and extensions or transfers are counted separately.

H-1B petitions decided by USCIS, by fiscal year
New petitionsExtensions and transfers
Fiscal yearApprovedDeniedApproval rateApprovedDenied
FY2020210100.0%1243
FY2021180100.0%1380
FY2022260100.0%1710
FY2023 (partial)10100.0%740
New H-1B petitions approved, FY2020–FY2023. Tallest bar: FY2022, 26. Scaled to this chart's own tallest bar.

These numbers come from USCIS, which decides H-1B petitions. They count different things from Department of Labor filings, so we never add the two together.

FY2023 is incomplete: USCIS's last data release covers only part of that year (38,315 new approvals nationwide, against 138,381 in FY2022).

USCIS hasn't published employer-level approval data after FY2023.

USCIS also has records for this company in FY2009–FY2019: 139 new H-1B petitions approved. Show FY2009 onward

Salaries

Offered salary is the yearly pay an employer states on a certified, full-time H-1B filing — the bottom of the range when it gives one. Hourly, weekly and monthly pay is converted to a yearly figure; amounts under $15,000 or over $1,000,000 a year are left out. The typical range is the middle half: a quarter of filings offered less, and a quarter more.

Offered salaries on certified H-1B filings, by fiscal year
Fiscal yearMedianTypical rangeFilings
FY2020$109,366$97,906 – $125,965186
FY2021$122,696$103,002 – $147,659234
FY2022$127,088$103,563 – $145,059208
FY2023$135,782$113,360 – $154,669219
FY2024$139,339$119,018 – $163,000240
FY2025$137,218$112,882 – $156,922267
FY2026 so far$159,346$127,520 – $184,160167

Wage levels since FY2023

  • Level I (entry) 13 2%
  • Level II (entry) 219 32%
  • Level III 193 28%
  • Level IV 257 38%

Shares of the 682 certified H-1B filings since FY2023 that state a wage level. 213 filings didn't state one.

Jobs and locations

Certified H-1B filings since FY2023, with the median offered salary for each.

Top job titles

Top job titles on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
Job titleFilingsMedian salaryTypical wage level
Manager, Statistical Programming25$134,800III
Manager, Biostatistics21$124,240II (entry)
Post Doc Scientist17$113,360II (entry)
Senior Statistical Programmer13$110,800II (entry)
Director, Marketing Sciences12$202,160IV
Research Scientist, Analytical Ops11$136,640III
R&D Info Systems Analyst II9$108,480II (entry)
Stat Programmer II9$105,440II (entry)
Associate Scientist, Process Development8$116,813III
Sr. Manager, Statistical Programming7$137,600III

Top locations

Top worksites on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
LocationFilingsMedian salary
Foster City, CA575$141,523
Raleigh, NC129$142,838
Oceanside, CA37$123,864
Parsippany, NJ17$140,537
La Verne, CA15$110,552
Seattle, WA15$103,272
Morris Plains, NJ6$153,171
San Mateo, CA5$137,072
Redmond, WA4$119,040
Apex, NC3$125,694

Top occupations

Top occupations on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
OccupationFilingsMedian salary
Biostatisticians 15-2041137$128,000
Computer and Information Systems Managers 11-3021134$175,918
Biochemists and Biophysicists 19-102177$115,357
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists 19-104272$140,421
Data Scientists 15-205157$159,040
Chemists 19-203150$128,000

What the filings were for

What its certified H-1B filings since FY2023 were for, as marked on each LCA. One filing can cover several workers, so these count worker positions.

Worker positions on certified H-1B filings since FY2023, by purpose
Filing typeWorker positionsShare
New employment New H-1B workers joining the company1,50721%
Continuation of existing employment Extensions for current H-1B workers1,48420%
Change of employer Transfers in: H-1B workers moving from another employer1,45820%
Change in previous employment Changes to a current H-1B worker's job1,42220%
Concurrent employment A second H-1B job alongside one elsewhere00%
Amended petition Amendments to a petition already filed1,41119%

It also has 2 certified E-3 filings (a visa for Australian citizens) and 3 certified H-1B1 filings (for citizens of Chile and Singapore) since FY2023. They use the same form and aren't counted above.

Green card sponsorship (PERM)

Most employer-sponsored green cards start with a PERM labor certification, filed with the Department of Labor. These are this company's, by fiscal year.

Green card filings (PERM), by fiscal year
Fiscal yearFiledCertifiedDeniedWithdrawn
FY2020252500
FY2021414010
FY2022444202
FY2023595603
FY2024474502
FY2025736904
FY2026 so far706505

FY2026 is in progress: data runs through June 30, 2026.

Across all its green card filings since FY2020, whatever the outcome. DOL's newer PERM form doesn't include citizenship or education, so those two lists cover filings made on the older one.

Top green card job titles

Top job titles on green card filings
Job titleFilings
Sr. Statistical Programmer23
Statistical Programmer II21
Manager, Biostatistics12
Associate Director, IT8
Manager, Statistical Programming8
Sr. Manager, IT8
R&D Information Systems Manager7
Sr. Manager, R&D Information Systems6

Countries of citizenship

Countries of citizenship on green card filings
CountryFilings
India125
China48
Canada23
Taiwan4
Italy2
South Korea2
United Kingdom2
Brazil1

Minimum education required

Minimum education required on green card filings
EducationFilings
Master's111
Bachelor's66
Doctorate33
Other3

E-Verify

On the E-Verify list

Gilead Sciences, Inc. appears on USCIS's list of E-Verify employers dated December 31, 2018, in a state it files from.

The company's listings on USCIS's 2018 E-Verify list
Name as listedLocationWorkforce sizeFederal contractor
Gilead Sciences IncFoster City, CA 944042,500 to 4,999Yes
Gilead Sciences, Inc.Foster City, CA 944045,000 to 9,999No

Why it matters: employers must be enrolled in E-Verify to employ F-1 students on the STEM OPT extension (8 CFR 214.2(f)(10)(ii)(C)).

This list is from December 31, 2018, and it's the only one USCIS has published. It shows who was enrolled on that date: a company that enrolled later isn't on it, so not being on the list tells you nothing.

How we match companies to the list

The employer's name key appears in the USCIS E-Verify participating-employers list with a state the employer files in. That list is one snapshot, enrolled as of 2018-12-31, so false means only "not on the 2018 list" - not that the employer does not use E-Verify today, and not that it did not enrol the following week. The list carries no FEIN and no case number, so the match is by normalised name and state alone.

Other things to know

H-1B dependent
No

On most of its certified filings in FY2023–FY2025 that answered the question, the company said it is not H-1B dependent. A dependent employer has a large share of H-1B workers on staff and makes extra promises about recruiting and not displacing U.S. workers.

How we work this out

The employer answered Yes to H1B_DEPENDENT on at least half of the certified LCAs where it answered the question, in FY2023-FY2025. false means it answered and Yes was under half; NULL means no certified case answered the question (E-3 and H-1B1 filings answer N/A). The floor is there because a single Yes among thousands of No answers is a tick in the wrong box: it would badge 979 employers that said Yes once, one of them on 1 filing of 2,760; the 473 that answered only once or twice still are. A dependent employer is not a worse employer: the answer is a statutory test on the share of H-1B workers on staff, not a finding.

Willful violator
No

The company's answers on its filings in FY2020–FY2025 don't show a repeated yes. Employers state on each filing whether DOL has found them to be a willful violator in the five years before; this is the company's own answer, not a DOL record.

How we work this out

The employer answered Yes to WILLFUL_VIOLATOR on at least two LCAs in FY2020-FY2025, certified or not, in at least two fiscal years, and in at least one of those years Yes was half or more of what it answered. The floor is there because a single Yes among thousands of No answers is a tick in the wrong box: 505 employers answer Yes exactly once and never twice, and the two employers with the most Yes answers say it on one filing in two thousand. false means the employer answered and did not meet that bar; NULL means it never answered. THIS IS THE FILER'S OWN ATTESTATION ON THE LCA, NOT A DOL FINDING. The authoritative source is the DOL published debarment list, which this project does not yet mirror - it is a follow-up catalog entry - so nothing here has been checked against it.

Cap-exempt
No sign

Nothing in its name or industry code suggests a college or university. That doesn't make it subject to the cap: nonprofit research organizations and affiliated hospitals can be exempt too, and we can't detect them.

How we work this out

INFERRED, not a determination. true when an FY2023+ LCA carries a NAICS code beginning 6112 or 6113 (junior colleges, colleges and universities) or a raw spelling of the employer's name contains the word UNIVERSITY or COLLEGE. Never false: the column is NULL when neither signal is present, because the absence of a signal is not evidence that an employer is cap-subject. Non-profit research organisations and affiliated hospitals are cap-exempt and both tests miss them. Only USCIS decides cap exemption, petition by petition.

Company details

Name on filings
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Other names on filings
Gilead Sciences, Inc; GILEAD SCIENCES INC; Gilead Sciences Inc.
Address on filings
Foster City, CA 94404
Industry
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (NAICS 541714)
Employees
8,834, as stated on its FY2024 green card filings
Employer ID (FEIN)
94-3047598
On record
FY2020–FY2026
Latest decision on its filings
June 26, 2026

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No other company shares its Employer ID.

Sources

  • H-1B and green card filings: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, FY2020 through June 30, 2026.
  • H-1B approvals: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, complete through FY2022; FY2023 is partial.
  • E-Verify: USCIS's list of E-Verify employers as of December 31, 2018.
  • Sponsorship score: computed September 15, 2026 with version 1 of the rules on How Visa Grep works.
  • USCIS approvals are matched to this company by exact name (1 USCIS name). The last four digits of the Employer ID agree.
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