- Even as most industries faced an economic crunch amid the COVID-19 pandemic, cybersecurity companies are still hiring aggressively to fill a talent gap across the industry.
- Business Insider analyzed new pay data disclosed by the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification last month to reveal salaries at 24 major cybersecurity companies.
- Most of the companies pay six-figure salaries for rank and file tech roles, with managers and executives making up to $350,000 in some cases.
- Here’s a look at how much CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, FireEye, McAfee, Netskope, Cloudflare, and more pay new hires.
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Cybersecurity companies are sponsoring foreign workers with salaries exceeding $300,000, visa records show – but also entry-level workers with salaries under $100,000 – as a talent gap drives foreign hiring in a booming industry.
Business Insider analyzed the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification’s 2020 disclosure data for permanent and temporary foreign workers to find out what 24 major players in cybersecurity — including Palo Alto Networks, Okta, FireEye, Trend Micro, McAfee, Netskope, CrowdStrike, and Cloudflare — pay tech talent in key roles including engineers, developers and data scientists.
Records show four companies – Auth0, Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, and Symantec – paid salaries exceeding $300,000 to new hires from other countries. More than 100 foreign workers were hired at salaries exceeding $200,000 by a dozen companies, the records show.
On the other end of the spectrum, talent-hungry cybersecurity companies hired more than 600 foreign workers at less that $100,000 annual salary – many at less than $70,000 for analysts, accountants, and marketers.
“One of the things it says when firms are hiring executives and entry level workers from abroad is that the talent is less and less available [in the US],” the CEO of cybersecurity-training and workforce-development company CyberVista, Simone Petrella, told Business Insider.
Cybersecurity presents a more extreme version than many industries that hire and sponsor foreign workers because of a gaping talent gap that has left hundreds of thousands of jobs unfilled.
While the federal data is limited to this select group of workers and only includes base pay — sans any bonuses or stock awards — it still provides rare insight into what these major companies are willing to shell out for talent.
Here’s how much these top cybersecurity technology companies paid employees hired in 2020:
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