New sponsor
The Sphere Institute
The Sphere Institute filed its first LCA in FY2026 and has 20 filings so far. A sponsorship history this short says little about how it handles a case that goes wrong.
- New positions, FY2026
- 7
- Lifetime filings
- 20
- Worker positions
- 37
- Median offered wage
- $96,250
Positions filed as NEW employment in the latest filed fiscal year — the closest honest read on new people being sponsored.
Labor condition applications across every fiscal year in the corpus.
FY2026 – FY2026
Positions on those applications — NOT people and NOT visas granted. A worker renewed three times counts three times.
Derived at read time from the $5,000 wage bands, across every occupation.
37 disclosed positions
Employer of record
The entity exactly as it appears on the filings. This name is the entity — nothing here is combined with a similarly named company.
- Name as filed
- The Sphere Institute
- Address
- 500 AIRPORT BLVD SUITE 100BURLINGAME, CA 94010UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Phone
- +1 (650) 558-3980
- Industry (NAICS)
- 541720Scientific Research and Development Services
- Point of contact
- Akis CharbonneauDirector of HR
- Declared status
- H-1B dependent
Filing volume
Filings, worker positions and new-employment positions per fiscal year. Three different measurements, never added together.
| Fiscal year | Filings | Worker positions | New-employment positions |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 | 20 | 37 | 7 |
Case status (filings)
| Bucket | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Certified | 20 | 100.0% |
Petition type (positions)
| Bucket | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New employment | 7 | 18.9% |
| Continued employment (renewal) | 11 | 29.7% |
| Amended petition | 19 | 51.4% |
30% of this employer's petition-type positions are continued employment — the same worker renewed. That is why the headline figure above is new-employment positions rather than filings: an employer renewing the same staff every three years produces the same filing volume as one hiring that many new people, and the two are not the same opportunity.
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The job title is whatever the employer wrote on the application. Nothing is reclassified, and the wage band is derived from the $5,000 bands rather than read from a stored average.
| Job title as filed | SOC occupation | Filings | Positions | Offered wage, 25th–75th | Prevailing wage level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead Research Analyst I | 19-4061.00Social Science Research Assistants | 6 | 14 | $71,827 – $105,179median $74,808 · 31 disclosed | Level II7 of 14 positions |
| Research Lead I | 19-4061.00Social Science Research Assistants | 2 | 4 | $71,827 – $105,179median $74,808 · 31 disclosed | Level II7 of 14 positions |
| Research Operations Lead | 19-4061.00Social Science Research Assistants | 2 | 3 | $71,827 – $105,179median $74,808 · 31 disclosed | Level II7 of 14 positions |
| Data Operations Analyst II | 19-4061.00Social Science Research Assistants | 1 | 3 | $71,827 – $105,179median $74,808 · 31 disclosed | Level II7 of 14 positions |
| Employee Development Lead | 19-4061.00Social Science Research Assistants | 1 | 3 | $71,827 – $105,179median $74,808 · 31 disclosed | Level II7 of 14 positions |
| Senior Research Analyst I | 19-4061.00Social Science Research Assistants | 1 | 3 | $71,827 – $105,179median $74,808 · 31 disclosed | Level II7 of 14 positions |
| Senior HR Operations Lead | 13-1071.00Human Resources Specialists | 2 | 2 | $101,250 – $103,750median $102,500 · 2 disclosed | Level II2 of 2 positions |
| AppDev Lead DevOps Engineer | 15-1252.00Software Developers | 1 | 1 | $161,250 – $163,750median $162,500 · 1 disclosed | Level II1 of 1 positions |
| Associate Research Manager II | 15-2041.00Statisticians | 1 | 1 | $136,250 – $138,750median $137,500 · 1 disclosed | Level II1 of 1 positions |
| Associate Researcher I | 19-4061.00Social Science Research Assistants | 1 | 1 | $71,827 – $105,179median $74,808 · 31 disclosed | Level II7 of 14 positions |
| Front End App Developer | 15-1299.08Computer Systems Engineers/Architects | 1 | 1 | $126,250 – $128,750median $127,500 · 1 disclosed | Level II1 of 1 positions |
| Software Development Product Manager | 15-1253.00Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | 1 | 1 | $71,250 – $73,750median $72,500 · 1 disclosed | Level I1 of 1 positions |
Offered wages
Every disclosed offered wage on this employer's certified applications, in $5,000 bands.
25th $72,232 · median $96,250 · 75th $106,250 · 37 disclosed positions
Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.
Worksites
Places of employment declared on the applications, ranked by how often they appear.
| Worksite | County | Filings | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burlingame, CA500 Airport Blvd | — | 10 | 50.0% |
| Burlingame, CA141 El Camino Real | — | 1 | 5.0% |
| Chino Hills, CA5701 Park Dr | — | 1 | 5.0% |
| Fremont, CA3416 Deerwood Ter | — | 1 | 5.0% |
| Highland, CA7747 Sienna Springs Loop | — | 1 | 5.0% |
| Sacramento, CA400 Capitol Mall | — | 1 | 5.0% |
| Somerville, MA54 Benton Rd | — | 1 | 5.0% |
| Portland, OR777 NW 19th Ave | — | 1 | 5.0% |
| Aldie, VA25522 Red Cherry Dr | — | 1 | 5.0% |
| Fairfax, VA12100 Polo Drive | — | 1 | 5.0% |
| Seattle, WA4324 8th Ave NE | — | 1 | 5.0% |
Outcomes
Derived at read time from the stored approval and denial counts. Nothing here is a stored rate.
- Approval rate
- 100.0%
- Approvals
- 20
- Denials
- 0
- Basis
- DOL decisions
US Department of Labor decisions on the applications, not petition outcomes.
20 adjudicated
Two different measurements. They are never blended into one rate.
A certified-then-withdrawn application was approved and pulled afterwards, so it counts as an approval. An application withdrawn before a decision was never adjudicated and is excluded from the denominator entirely — counting it as a denial would invent a rejection that never happened.
Every figure above is aggregated from Labor Condition Applications published by the US Department of Labor for The Sphere Institute as that name appears on the filings. Filing counts are applications, position counts are worker positions on those applications, and neither is a headcount or a count of visas granted. How these pages are built.
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