Bill Melinda Gates Foundation — 164 certified H-1B filings (FY2016–FY2025)
- 7
- Filings · FY2025
- $330k
- Median base · FY2025
- Gates Fellow
- Top role · 7 all-time
- WA
- Top state · 149 all-time
Bill Melinda Gates Foundation filed 7 certified H-1B LCAs in FY2025 (down 30% from the year before), with a median base salary of $330k and the middle 50% of offers between $220k and $332k. Across all years it has 164 certified filings since FY2016, most often for Gates Fellow in Washington.
How much does Bill Melinda Gates Foundation pay H-1B workers?
Certified base salary by fiscal year: each box is the p25–p75 range, the heavy line the median, the whiskers reach p10–p90. $330k median in FY2025. Base pay only — hover a year for its figures.
How has Bill Melinda Gates Foundation's H-1B hiring changed by year?
20 certified filings in FY2016 → 7 in FY2025. The change column is each year against the one before.
| Fiscal year | Filings | vs prior FY | Median base |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7 | −30% | $330k |
| FY2024 | 10 | −33% | $240k |
| FY2023 | 15 | +25% | $248k |
| FY2022 | 12 | −29% | $240k |
| FY2021 | 17 | +55% | $209k |
| FY2020 | 11 | −45% | $249k |
| FY2019 | 20 | −41% | $166k |
| FY2018 | 34 | +89% | $144k |
| FY2017 | 18 | −10% | $154k |
| FY2016 | 20 | — | $152k |
Which wage levels does Bill Melinda Gates Foundation file?
DOL prevailing-wage levels I–IV approximate experience tiers (I = entry, IV = fully competent). 77% of Bill Melinda Gates Foundation's filings sit at Level III–IV. A heavy I–II skew reads as entry-level or contractor-style hiring; a heavy IV skew as senior in-house roles — and higher levels earn more lottery entries.
Share of 140 filings with a wage level · all years
- Level I7.9%11
- Level II15.0%21
- Level III6.4%9
- Level IV70.7%99
What jobs does Bill Melinda Gates Foundation sponsor for H-1B?
The most-filed job titles across all years (DOL titles, employer pay-grade codes stripped), with base-salary percentiles.
| Job title | Filings | Median base |
|---|---|---|
| Gates Fellow | 7 | $107k |
| Senior Program Officer, Global Development | 6 | $209k |
| Deputy Director, Advocacy | 4 | $330k |
| Senior Program Officer | 4 | $214k |
| Deputy Director, Global Health | 3 | $304k |
| Program Officer, Global Policy and Advocacy | 3 | $140k |
| Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning and Management | 2 | $167k |
| Director, Life Sciences Partnerships | 2 | $216k |
| Deputy Director, Global Development | 2 | $278k |
| Fellow | 2 | $110k |
Where does Bill Melinda Gates Foundation hire H-1B workers?
Worksite states on the certified filings, all years. Deeper pink = more filings; hover a state for its figures.
| State | Filings | Median base |
|---|---|---|
| WA | 149 | $180k |
| DC | 13 | $181k |
| IL | 1 | $346k |
| NY | 1 | $315k |
What has Bill Melinda Gates Foundation filed recently?
The 50 most recent of 164 certified LCAs: job title, worksite, prevailing-wage level and the offered base salary.
Common questions about Bill Melinda Gates Foundation's H-1B filings
- How much does Bill Melinda Gates Foundation pay H-1B workers?
- Bill Melinda Gates Foundation's median certified H-1B base salary is $330k (FY2025), from 7 filings. See the full salary distribution and percentiles above.
- How many H-1B workers does Bill Melinda Gates Foundation sponsor?
- Bill Melinda Gates Foundation has 164 certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications on record (FY2016–FY2025).
- What jobs does Bill Melinda Gates Foundation sponsor for H-1B?
- Bill Melinda Gates Foundation's most-sponsored H-1B roles include Gates Fellow, Senior Program Officer, Global Development, Deputy Director, Advocacy, Senior Program Officer.
- Where does Bill Melinda Gates Foundation hire H-1B workers?
- Bill Melinda Gates Foundation's top H-1B worksite states are WA, DC, IL, NY.
- Does a certified LCA mean an H-1B visa was approved?
- No. A Labor Condition Application (LCA) is the Department of Labor attestation an employer must have certified before filing an H-1B petition with USCIS. It records the job, worksite and offered wage, but not whether the petition was filed, selected in the lottery, or approved. Filing counts measure intent to sponsor, not headcount.
- What salary do these figures show?
- The base annual wage offered on the certified LCA, converted to a yearly amount. Bonus, equity, overtime and benefits are not included, so total compensation is typically higher. Figures are medians and percentiles over certified filings; wages above $5,000,000 a year are excluded as data-entry errors.
- What do prevailing-wage levels I–IV mean?
- The Department of Labor assigns each LCA an OES wage level from I (entry) to IV (fully competent) for the occupation and area. Under the FY2027 wage-weighted H-1B lottery rule, a higher level earns more selection entries, so an employer's level mix is a proxy for how senior its sponsored roles are.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — certified LCA disclosure data through June 2026 (FY2016–FY2025). An LCA is not an approved visa; pay figures are base salary and exclude bonus and equity. Methodology →