H-1B sponsorship profile: University of California, Santa Barbara. Across U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosures, University of California, Santa Barbara filed 7 Labor Condition Applications covering 7 H-1B worker positions between fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 2025. The employer’s DOL certification rate sits at 100% (7 certified of 7 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 University of California, Santa Barbara’s H-1B petitions range from $84,700 at the low end to $200,000 at the high end, with a petition-weighted average of $117,857. That range reflects the mix of occupations the company sponsors, led by Senior Lead Developer (3 petitions at $115,700 avg), followed by Assistant Project Scientist and Full Professor. 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. University of California, Santa Barbara is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA under NAICS code 611310, and places H-1B workers across 1 state, most heavily in 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 University of California, Santa Barbara ranks. By H-1B petition volume, University of California, Santa Barbara is #21,197 of 119,880 employers nationally and #3,483 of 22,893 employers headquartered in CA. Both ranks are computed live from the same underlying petition counts, not a separate estimate.