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Facebook, Inc. is a company based in Menlo Park, California that has hired a total of 5,480 Perm Visa Employees as of across 14 locations, with the majority of hires in CA. It is rank #7 of the top-10 Perm Visa employers in the USA

The primary jobs hired include Software Developers, Systems Software, Software Developers, Applications, and Statisticians.

The average salary at Facebook, Inc. for the jobs listed above is $106,997.95.

This company has mostly hired people from the Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services industry

The company has been hiring employees since at least 2011, and the number of Perm employees has been decreasing over time, while the average salary has been rising over time.

Facebook, Inc. has a Perm Visa approval rate of 55.88% .

Top 10 Employer


Employer Summary

Facebook, Inc.
1 Hacker Way
Menlo Park, CALIFORNIA

Total Applications

9,807

Average Wage

$109,464.94

Visa Status

5,480 Approved

312 Denied

1,224 Withdrawn

2,791 Certified Expired

Facebook, Inc. Top Perm Visa Jobs


Facebook, Inc. Employees Over Time vs Average Salary Over Time

Facebook, Inc. has been in the Perm Visa program since 2011 where they hired 4 employees. They peaked in 2018 with 1,097 employees, and have since been on a decline with the most recent number of employees being 1 in 2024.

Facebook, Inc. has been in the Perm Visa program since 2010 where the average salary was $86,466. They peaked in 2023 with an average salary of $118,785, and have since been on a decline with the most recent average salary being $116,402 in 2025.

Facebook, Inc. Additional Information

Facebook Inc. specializes in the development of social media applications with its website Facebook.com, as well as ownership of properties such as Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Oculus. The company was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, Andrew McCollum, and Eduardo Saverin. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA. The company supports leadership in business for social networking and online public relations.

Facebook Inc. hires H1B visa workers as scientists and engineers. They are offered positions as software engineers, data scientists, data engineers, research scientists, and product managers.

Facebook Inc. hires so many H1B visa workers to complete its IT services. The company specifically hires a lot of software engineers and software developers.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Buy American and Hire American executive order has made it difficult for Facebook Inc., and other major incorporations to hire H1B visa workers. In 2018, one fourth of H1B applications were denied in three months. “I think they’re trying to restrict foreign nationals in general,” Stuart Anderson, the executive director of the free market think tank National Foundation for American Policy, told Recode. “Part of it is a lack of understanding of how important IT services is for the competitiveness of US companies.” After 99 of its applications were approved, Facebook Inc. was fourth out of the top ten companies that received H1B visa workers with a count of 1,132.