Chime Financial — 533 certified H-1B filings (FY2019–FY2026)
- 125
- Filings · FY2025
- $185k
- Median base · FY2025
- Senior Software Engineer
- Top role · 98 all-time
- CA
- Top state · 460 all-time
Chime Financial filed 125 certified H-1B LCAs in FY2025 (up 26% from the year before), with a median base salary of $185k and the middle 50% of offers between $170k and $215k. That is 62% above the market median for the same job titles. Across all years it has 533 certified filings since FY2019, most often for Senior Software Engineer in California.
How much does Chime Financial 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. $185k median in FY2025. Base pay only — hover a year for its figures.
How has Chime Financial's H-1B hiring changed by year?
7 certified filings in FY2019 → 79 in FY2026. The change column is each year against the one before.
| Fiscal year | Filings | vs prior FY | Median base |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 79 | −37% | $185k |
| FY2025 | 125 | +26% | $185k |
| FY2024 | 99 | +55% | $200k |
| FY2023 | 64 | +21% | $190k |
| FY2022 | 53 | −38% | $190k |
| FY2021 | 85 | +305% | $192k |
| FY2020 | 21 | +200% | $175k |
| FY2019 | 7 | — | $177k |
Which wage levels does Chime Financial file?
DOL prevailing-wage levels I–IV approximate experience tiers (I = entry, IV = fully competent). 80% of Chime Financial'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 527 filings with a wage level · all years
- Level I0.6%3
- Level II19.5%103
- Level III42.7%225
- Level IV37.2%196
What jobs does Chime Financial sponsor for H-1B?
The most-filed job titles across all years (DOL titles, employer pay-grade codes stripped), with base-salary percentiles. Open a title for Chime Financial's pay on that role by year, wage level and worksite.
| Job title | Filings | Median base |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer | 98 | $220k |
| Software Engineer | 53 | $170k |
| Engineering Manager | 18 | $231k |
| Senior Data Analyst | 18 | $180k |
| Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering | 11 | $215k |
| Lead Data Analyst | 9 | $200k |
| Senior Data Scientist | 9 | $230k |
| Senior Data Engineer | 7 | $200k |
| Senior Risk Analyst | 7 | $175k |
| Senior Data Analyst, Credit Risk | 7 | $153k |
Where does Chime Financial 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CA | 460 | $195k |
| IL | 31 | $153k |
| NY | 11 | $165k |
| WA | 6 | $175k |
| NJ | 5 | $150k |
| TX | 4 | $166k |
| OR | 4 | $175k |
| MS | 3 | $125k |
| GA | 2 | $155k |
| VA | 2 | $110k |
What has Chime Financial filed recently?
The 50 most recent of 533 certified LCAs: job title, worksite, prevailing-wage level and the offered base salary.
Common questions about Chime Financial's H-1B filings
- How much does Chime Financial pay H-1B workers?
- Chime Financial's median certified H-1B base salary is $185k (FY2025), from 125 filings. See the full salary distribution and percentiles above.
- How many H-1B workers does Chime Financial sponsor?
- Chime Financial has 533 certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications on record (FY2019–FY2026).
- What jobs does Chime Financial sponsor for H-1B?
- Chime Financial's most-sponsored H-1B roles include Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, Senior Data Analyst.
- Where does Chime Financial hire H-1B workers?
- Chime Financial's top H-1B worksite states are CA, IL, NY, WA.
- 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 (FY2019–FY2026). An LCA is not an approved visa; pay figures are base salary and exclude bonus and equity. Methodology →