H-1B sponsorship profile: Gates Foundation. Across U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosures, Gates Foundation filed 13 Labor Condition Applications covering 13 H-1B worker positions between fiscal year 2025 and fiscal year 2026. The employer’s DOL certification rate sits at 100% (13 certified of 13 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 Gates Foundation’s H-1B petitions range from $140,000 at the low end to $420,981 at the high end, with a petition-weighted average of $280,087. That range reflects the mix of occupations the company sponsors, led by Senior Officer, Vaccine Development (1 petitions at $330,715 avg), followed by Senior Officer, Research Software Development and Senior Officer, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn & Child Heal. 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. Gates Foundation is headquartered in Seattle, WA under NAICS code 813211, and places H-1B workers across 2 states, most heavily in WA, DC. 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 Gates Foundation ranks. By H-1B petition volume, Gates Foundation is #13,807 of 119,880 employers nationally and #261 of 2,468 employers headquartered in WA. Both ranks are computed live from the same underlying petition counts, not a separate estimate.