New-age companies like Netflix, Airbnb top H-1B salaries

Netflix pays the most to H-1B talent. The content platform pays $205,532 in average compensation, followed by vacation rental marketplace Airbnb ($168,306), ridesharing service Lyft ($167,650) and on-demand food delivery service Doordash ($160,444), data from Dice.com and H-1B Visa Salary Database shows.

This new breed of technology firms shell out more to H-1B employees than Google and Apple, which pay $144,285 and $139,457 respectively. H-1Bs are longterm work visas and many of the recipients are Indians.

Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe distinguished professor at Tuck at Dartmouth, said Netflix’s average compensation per employee (not just those on H-1B visas but across all employees) is higher than for other tech companies.