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Riot Games, Inc.

H-1B visa and green card sponsorship record

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

Yes — Riot Games, Inc. sponsors H-1B visas.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) certified 97 of its H-1B filings in FY2025 and 70 so far in FY2026 (through June 30, 2026).

At a glance

Certified H-1B filings, FY2025
97 70 so far in FY2026
Median offered salary, FY2025
$151,549 from 97 filings
USCIS approval rate, FY2020–FY2022
93.9% of 65 new petitions
Green card filings (PERM), FY2025
29
E-Verify
Not on the 2018 list
H-1B dependent
No

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

Sponsorship score

5/10

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

  • Recent approvals 2/3

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

  • Entry-level hiring 0/3

    13% of 272 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 1/2

    93.9% 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
FY20207867049% of 67
FY2021987701917% of 76
FY20228977056% of 77
FY202312511003712% of 110
FY20247365129% of 65
FY2025104970615% of 97
FY2026 so far73700725% of 63
Certified H-1B filings, FY2020–FY2026. Tallest bar: FY2023, 110. 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“Filed”, “Denied” and “Withdrawn” count every LCA, including the E-3 and H-1B1 visas that use the same form; “Certified H-1B” counts H-1B only. A filing certified and later withdrawn counts in both columns.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
FY202025292.6%382
FY202119290.5%561
FY2022170100.0%430
FY2023 (partial)60100.0%270
New H-1B petitions approved, FY2020–FY2023. Tallest bar: FY2020, 25. 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 FY2010–FY2019: 137 new H-1B petitions approved. Show FY2010 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$121,300$104,312 – $148,50067
FY2021$130,000$104,749 – $155,00077
FY2022$139,818$118,310 – $180,00077
FY2023$147,410$118,123 – $187,250110
FY2024$146,744$129,854 – $176,13464
FY2025$151,549$129,667 – $176,13497
FY2026 so far$157,123$119,870 – $181,89668

Wage levels since FY2023

  • Level I (entry) 7 2%
  • Level II (entry) 43 13%
  • Level III 60 18%
  • Level IV 225 67%

Shares of the 335 certified H-1B filings since FY2023 that state a wage level. 7 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
Software Engineer II45$176,134IV
Software Engineer28$149,136III
Software Engineer III24$184,558IV
Insights Analyst II10$130,000IV
Manager, Software Engineering9$226,034IV
Associate Software Engineer6$137,259II (entry)
Concept Artist III6$128,170IV
Data Scientist III6$130,270IV
Insights Analyst6$117,146III
Network Engineer II6$148,741IV

Top locations

Top worksites on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
LocationFilingsMedian salary
Los Angeles, CA283$146,850
Mercer Island, WA27$168,814
Bellevue, WA9$192,004
Redwood City, CA9$167,000
Clayton, MO4$78,978
Sunnyvale, CA2$226,138
Brooklyn, CA1$118,000
Brooklyn, NY1$99,008
Buffalo, NY1$131,976
Des Moines, WA1$137,259

Top occupations

Top occupations on certified H-1B filings since FY2023
OccupationFilingsMedian salary
Software Developers 15-1252126$175,838
Information Technology Project Managers 15-129927$138,486
Data Scientists 15-205120$143,978
Computer and Information Systems Managers 11-302116$226,034
Special Effects Artists and Animators 27-101416$134,742
Graphic Designers 27-102416$102,000

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 company12637%
Continuation of existing employment Extensions for current H-1B workers11433%
Change of employer Transfers in: H-1B workers moving from another employer4814%
Change in previous employment Changes to a current H-1B worker's job165%
Concurrent employment A second H-1B job alongside one elsewhere00%
Amended petition Amendments to a petition already filed4012%

It also has 22 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
FY2020151500
FY2021222200
FY2022343400
FY2023302532
FY2024403901
FY2025292216
FY2026 so far363132

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 Engineer16
Software Engineer II11
Associate Software Engineer10
Concept Artist5
Software Engineer III4
Animator3
Insights Analyst3
Insights Analyst II3

Countries of citizenship

Countries of citizenship on green card filings
CountryFilings
China26
Canada24
India14
Turkey9
Brazil5
South Korea5
Taiwan5
United Kingdom5

Minimum education required

Minimum education required on green card filings
EducationFilings
Master's55
Bachelor's45
No minimum23
Other1

E-Verify

Not on the 2018 E-Verify list

We didn't find Riot Games, Inc. on USCIS's list of E-Verify employers dated December 31, 2018.

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
Riot Games, Inc.
Other names on filings
RIOT GAMES INC
Address on filings
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Industry
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (NAICS 541519)
Employees
2,892, as stated on its FY2024 green card filings
Employer ID (FEIN)
20-5278564
On record
FY2020–FY2026
Latest decision on its filings
June 30, 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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