Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors in Astronomy since 2001

Rank	Company	H1B Visa Applications	H1B Visa Average Salary(2008)
1	Research Corporation of the Univeristy of HI	37	57,146
2	California Institute of Technology	29	93,747
3	Assoc of Universities for Research in Astro	18	69,011
3	Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory	18	59,873
5	National Radio Astronomy Observatory	15	69,714
6	AURA Space Telescope Science Institute	8	90,043
7	CAL Instit Tech Jet Prop Lab	6	85,283
7	Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network	6	54,000
9	OST International	5	53,800
9	AURA National Optical Astronomy Observatory	5	59,375
9	San Diego State University	5	24,960
9	Universities Space Research Association	5	63,752
13	Space Telescope Science Institute Aura	4	72,401
13	California Association for Research in Astronomy	4	88,305
13	Observatories of The Carnegie Institution of Wash	4	54,750
13	Johns Hopkins University	4	62,275
13	Las Cumbres Observatory	4	51,000
18	Los Alamos National Security	3	63,872
18	University of Pittsburgh	3	60,333
18	University of Colorado	3	54,573
18	University OF California Los Angeles	3	52,697
18	University of California Riverside	3	89,100
18	Space Telescope Science Institute	3	74,390
18	Yale University	3	45,333
25	University OF California Santa Cruz	2	70,400
25	Science Applications International	2	62,821
25	Software Research Resources	2	45,504
25	Southwest Research Institute	2	68,250
25	University OF New Mexico	2	77,500
25	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	2	73,000
25	University of Pennsylvania	2	61,955
25	University of Virginia	2	57,500
25	Stanford University	2	73,818
25	The Adler Planetarium	2	45,000
25	Northwest Research Associates	2	55,370
25	California Institute Of Technology/jet Propulsion	2	104,000
25	Conceptual Analytics	2	120,037
25	E I Dupont DE Nemours	2	83,328
25	Haverford College	2	46,488
25	Institute for Advanced Study	2	61,085