H-1B sponsorship profile: Nikola Corporation. Across U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosures, Nikola Corporation filed 175 Labor Condition Applications covering 176 H-1B worker positions between fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 2025. The employer’s DOL certification rate sits at 97.1% (170 certified of 175 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 Nikola Corporation’s H-1B petitions range from $80,000 at the low end to $275,000 at the high end, with a petition-weighted average of $136,120. That range reflects the mix of occupations the company sponsors, led by Systems Engineer (4 petitions at $126,125 avg), followed by Senior Embedded Software Engineer and Senior Wire Harness Design Release Engineer. 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. Nikola Corporation is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ under NAICS code 336120, and places H-1B workers across 2 states, most heavily in AZ, CA. 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 Nikola Corporation ranks. By H-1B petition volume, Nikola Corporation is #1,189 of 119,880 employers nationally and #16 of 1,705 employers headquartered in AZ. Both ranks are computed live from the same underlying petition counts, not a separate estimate.