H-1B sponsorship profile: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Across U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosures, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation filed 50 Labor Condition Applications covering 50 H-1B worker positions between fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 2025. The employer’s DOL certification rate sits at 96% (48 certified of 50 filed), a useful proxy for how cleanly their prevailing-wage attestations pass the Labor Department’s preliminary review before USCIS adjudication.

Compensation spread. Offered wages on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s H-1B petitions range from $140,000 at the low end to $520,000 at the high end, with a petition-weighted average of $282,925. That range reflects the mix of occupations the company sponsors, led by Senior Program Officer, Global Development (4 petitions at $225,094 avg), followed by Deputy Director, Advocacy and Senior Program Officer. H-1B salaries reported on LCAs must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage for the role and worksite, so the spread also tracks wage-level geography and seniority.

Geographic footprint. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is headquartered in Seattle, WA under NAICS code 813211, and places H-1B workers across 3 states, most heavily in WA, DC, NY. Combined, these signals give a granular view of how one employer uses the H-1B program, volume, approval cleanliness, wage posture, and where the jobs actually sit on the map.

Where Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ranks. By H-1B petition volume, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is #4,673 of 119,880 employers nationally and #85 of 2,468 employers headquartered in WA. Both ranks are computed live from the same underlying petition counts, not a separate estimate.