EMPLOYMENT TYPE MIX · DOL LCA DATA

University of California, Berkeley H-1B New Employment

Of University of California, Berkeley's 565 certified H-1B filings with a stated employment type (FY2021–2026), 45.5% are new employment at a median of $80K/year. The rest are extensions, transfers and amendments for workers already sponsored.

45.5%
New Employment
257
New-Hire Filings
$80K
Median, New Hires
$96K
Median, Renewals

Is University of California, Berkeley Hiring New H-1B Workers?

Yes. At 45.5%, University of California, Berkeley files a high share of genuinely new H-1B employment, so a meaningful part of its sponsorship goes to people it has not sponsored before. That is the population an outside applicant joins.

Employment Type Breakdown at University of California, Berkeley

New employmentA worker not already on H-1B with this employer, the route in from outside
257 filings · 45.5%
Continuation / extensionExtending an existing H-1B for someone already on staff
219 filings · 38.8%
Change of employerTaking on a worker who already holds H-1B elsewhere
58 filings · 10.3%
Amended petitionChanging the terms of an existing petition, such as a new work site
14 filings · 2.5%
Change at same employerA material change to the same worker's existing role
19 filings · 3.4%
Concurrent employmentA second, simultaneous H-1B alongside another employer
6 filings · 1.1%

Bars are scaled to this employer's largest category, not to 100%. Percentages are of University of California, Berkeley's 565 certified filings that state an employment type. A small number of filings tick more than one box, so the shares can total slightly above 100%.

Is That Share Rising or Falling?

FY2022
40% of 55
FY2023
52.5% of 61
FY2024
47.4% of 213
FY2025
42.9% of 191
FY2026
44.4% of 45

New-employment share per fiscal year, each against that year's filings with a stated type. Bars are scaled to this employer's peak year.

What Roles Is University of California, Berkeley Hiring Into?

Job titles on University of California, Berkeley's new-employment filings specifically, which is what it is actually growing rather than merely maintaining.

RoleNew-Hire FilingsMedian Wage
Physicists17$76K
Molecular and Cellular Biologists15$77K
Chemists15$77K
Biochemists and Biophysicists12$74K
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists10$73K
Biologists9$80K
Biological Scientists, All Other7$73K
Computer and Information Research Scientists7$73K

Why This Number Matters

Total sponsorship volume is the figure most job boards quote, and on its own it is misleading. An employer filing thousands of petitions a year can be filing almost all of them to extend people it sponsored years ago, which tells an outside applicant very little about their odds.

The new-employment share separates the two. It is the employer's own checkbox on the Labor Condition Application, not an estimate, and it identifies the filings that represent someone entering the company rather than staying in it.

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Counted from US Department of Labor LCA disclosure files (FY2021–2026) for certified petitions filed by University of California, Berkeley with annual wages between $30K and $1M. Shares are of the 565 filings that tick at least one employment-type box; the remaining 24.7% of University of California, Berkeley's 750 certified filings state no type and are excluded rather than counted as renewals. A certified LCA is a step toward an H-1B petition, not an approved visa.