What share of analyst job postings say they sponsor visas?

4,939 (85.3%) US analyst postings say nothing about sponsorship that we can read with confidence. Of those silent postings, 1,818 (37%) are at employers with approved H-1B workers on the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub record, any occupation.

186 companies have at least one US analyst posting that rules sponsorship out, and 9 have at least one that says yes, led by Capital One, Anthropic, Flex and Carvana.

The figure most often quoted is 2.6% of postings offering visa sponsorship, from Handshake data reported by CNBC Make It (24 May 2026). The article publishes no definition, sample size or method, so treat it as unverified. It covers full-time job postings on Handshake, an early-career platform, across all occupations in 2026 (down from 10.9% in 2023, per the same article). Ours is narrower and different in kind: US analyst postings only, read from employers' own careers sites, classified from what each posting's text says on 7 November 2026. The two numbers measure different populations and are not a trend.

• Do not skip a posting because it is silent on sponsorship. Look up the employer's past H-1B approvals first; the board shows that record beside each US role.
• Skip postings that rule sponsorship out in writing, and apply first where a posting says yes.
• Some US roles need citizenship or a security clearance. Those postings are counted as will not sponsor here, so read the requirement itself.
• Outside the US, read the posting for the local visa name (for example a Skilled Worker visa in the UK) and check the official sponsor register where one exists.

• Sample: every live posting on realanalystjobs.com on 7 November 2026, read from employers' own careers sites. Reposting sites (Jobgether and Weekday, 199 postings) and employer-posted listings (4) are left out. US means the location resolves to the United States: 5,787 postings.
• Classifier: only sentences that mention sponsorship together with a visa, H-1B, immigration or work authorization term are read. A no statement (will not sponsor, must be authorized to work without sponsorship now or in the future, citizenship or clearance required) beats any yes. A yes needs an explicit statement (will sponsor, sponsorship available, will consider sponsoring, visa support offered). An offer limited to one level counts as says nothing for a title at that level and as will not for any other title. Anything unclear counts as says nothing.
• The classifier was written from a hand-checked study of 1,128 US analyst postings on 7 October 2026 and is tested on fixture sentences by the board's own check (npm run visa:check).
• Postings whose description could not be read count as says nothing, so says nothing is an upper bound and the yes and no shares are floors.
• H-1B record: the employer has at least one approved H-1B petition in FY2023 to FY2026 on the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, matched to the board's company names on 17 October 2026. It covers every occupation, not only analysts. A company added to the board after that day has no row yet, so the H-1B record share is a floor.
• Every number is recomputed from the live board each time the page loads; the JSON download carries the same numbers.

• It measures what postings say, not what employers do. A silent posting may still sponsor, and a yes is not a guarantee for every candidate.
• One day's live postings on one board. It is a snapshot, not a trend.
• Pattern classification can miss unusual wording. The design accepts a missed yes over a false yes.
• The board reads a large set of company careers sites, but not every US employer.

• Share of employers that actually sponsor for these roles. A posting's words are not a hiring decision. The closest public evidence is past filings: the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub (approvals) and DOL LCA disclosure data (filings with wages), both shown on the board's company pages.
• Change over time. Closed postings are not archived, so there is no earlier population to compare with. The 7 October 2026 hand-checked study is a separate, smaller sample and not a baseline for a trend.

1. realanalystjobs.com live board: Every live analyst posting on 7 November 2026 and what its text says about sponsorship.
2. USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub: Approved H-1B petitions by employer, FY2023 to FY2026 (FY2026 partial), used for the H-1B record share.
3. Handshake data reported by CNBC Make It: The 2.6% all-occupation figure we compare with, published 24 May 2026.