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Proofpoint, Inc.

H-1B visa and green card sponsorship record

Sunnyvale, CA Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Files from CA On record FY2020–FY2026

Yes — Proofpoint, Inc. sponsors H-1B visas.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) certified 51 of its H-1B filings in FY2025 and 21 so far in FY2026 (through June 30, 2026).

At a glance

Certified H-1B filings, FY2025
51 21 so far in FY2026
Median offered salary, FY2025
$169,950 from 51 filings
USCIS approval rate, FY2020–FY2022
100.0% of 27 new petitions
Green card filings (PERM), FY2025
35
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

7/10

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

  • Recent approvals 2/3

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

  • Entry-level hiring 1/3

    25% of 115 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 27 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
FY202054540224% of 50
FY202171710330% of 54
FY20221041020722% of 95
FY202351440519% of 36
FY202453521331% of 42
FY202553510224% of 37
FY2026 so far21210030% of 10
Certified H-1B filings, FY2020–FY2026. Tallest bar: FY2022, 102. 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“Filed”, “Denied” and “Withdrawn” count every LCA, including the E-3 and H-1B1 visas that use the same form; “Certified H-1B” counts H-1B only. A filing certified and later withdrawn counts in both columns.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
FY2020150100.0%350
FY202160100.0%480
FY202260100.0%730
FY2023 (partial)10100.0%230
New H-1B petitions approved, FY2020–FY2023. Tallest bar: FY2020, 15. 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: 61 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$135,000$115,000 – $154,66954
FY2021$145,725$112,611 – $151,88871
FY2022$130,894$112,611 – $157,477102
FY2023$142,000$125,000 – $167,14944
FY2024$165,173$127,629 – $184,66252
FY2025$169,950$138,112 – $182,63951
FY2026 so far$153,493$137,160 – $174,30421

Wage levels since FY2023

  • Level I (entry) 4 3%
  • Level II (entry) 28 22%
  • Level III 43 34%
  • Level IV 50 40%

Shares of the 125 certified H-1B filings since FY2023 that state a wage level. 43 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
Sr. Software Engineer25$161,637III
Senior Software Engineer21$144,955IV
Software Engineer19$134,950III
Staff Software Engineer13$192,941IV
Sr. Service Reliability Engineer4$167,149IV
Business Analyst3$133,000I (entry)
DevOps Engineer3$142,000II (entry)
Sr. Data Engineer3$138,112IV
Director, Engineering2$262,974IV
Director, Product Management2$206,294III

Top locations

Top worksites on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
LocationFilingsMedian salary
Sunnyvale, CA96$177,838
Draper, UT6$123,802
Pittsburgh, PA5$112,299
Erie, CO3$161,637
Frederick, MD3$165,173
Broomfield, CO2$125,000
Chelmsford, MA2$150,197
Columbia, TN2$134,014
Georgetown, TX2$103,293
Jersey City, NJ2$139,672

Top occupations

Top occupations on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
OccupationFilingsMedian salary
Software Developers 15-1252109$156,052
Computer and Information Systems Managers 11-302114$177,736
Information Security Analysts 15-12128$139,152
Information Technology Project Managers 15-12996$131,144
Data Scientists 15-20516$121,472
Database Administrators 15-12425$125,861

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 company159%
Continuation of existing employment Extensions for current H-1B workers9557%
Change of employer Transfers in: H-1B workers moving from another employer2917%
Change in previous employment Changes to a current H-1B worker's job74%
Concurrent employment A second H-1B job alongside one elsewhere00%
Amended petition Amendments to a petition already filed2213%

It also has 5 certified E-3 filings (a visa for Australian citizens) 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
FY2020232300
FY2021151500
FY2022161501
FY2023131300
FY2024151500
FY2025353113
FY2026 so far6501

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
Software Engineer19
Senior Software Engineer12
Sr. Software Engineer11
Product Manager4
Senior Service Reliability Engineer3
Software Engineer II3
Sr. Service Reliability Engineer3
DevOps Engineer2

Countries of citizenship

Countries of citizenship on green card filings
CountryFilings
India65
China5
United Kingdom2
Canada1
Egypt1
Guatemala1
Israel1
Nepal1

Minimum education required

Minimum education required on green card filings
EducationFilings
Bachelor's56
Master's24

E-Verify

On the E-Verify list

Proofpoint, 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
Proofpoint Inc.Sunnyvale, CA 94086500 to 999No
Proofpoint, Inc.Sunnyvale, CA 94089500 to 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
Proofpoint, Inc.
Other names on filings
PROOFPOINT, INC
Address on filings
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Industry
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (NAICS 541519)
Employees
1,669, as stated on its FY2024 green card filings
Employer ID (FEIN)
51-0414846
On record
FY2020–FY2026
Latest decision on its filings
June 26, 2026

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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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