In house, like Google, will have people on staff who do this as their job (ie costs lower). A startup looking to sponsor an H1B, based on my experience, is goi

In house, like Google, will have people on staff who do this as their job (ie costs lower). A startup looking to sponsor an H1B, based on my experience, is going to be quoted ~$20k in legal + filing fees from a small-medium law firm (ie not Fenwick but not USAVisas.net either [made up site, you get my drift]).