H-1B wage filings in Costa Mesa, CA
Jobs with a worksite in Costa Mesa, California. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
214 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas named Costa Mesa, CA as the worksite from July 2025 to June 2026, from 117 employers. The median offered wage was $125,000, 2.4% above the government's prevailing wage for those jobs in the area. The most-filed job was Manager (5).
- Filings
- 214
- Positions covered
- 279
- Employers
- 117
- Median offered
- $125,000
- Median prevailing wage
- $115,180
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,779
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +32%
Offered wage since 2020
The median wage offered for jobs in Costa Mesa, CA rose 32%, from $95,326 in fiscal 2020 to $125,678 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 2.8% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2020, with 379 filings.
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year
Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.
Costa Mesa, CA by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 157 | $125,678 | +13.0% | $115,305 | +2.8% |
| 2025 | 242 | $111,197 | −3.7% | $102,357 | +4.0% |
| 2024 | 246 | $115,470 | +7.5% | $99,549 | +7.1% |
| 2023 | 192 | $107,423 | −3.6% | $100,256 | +4.8% |
| 2022 | 274 | $111,384 | +2.7% | $96,907 | +3.2% |
| 2021 | 289 | $108,451 | +13.8% | $99,632 | +6.2% |
| 2020 | 379 | $95,326 | n/a | $93,891 | +0.3% |
Employers filing for jobs in Costa Mesa
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 117. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.
Most-filed job titles in Costa Mesa
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manager | 5 | $161,096 | at the minimum | |
| Software Developer | 5 | $103,000 | +0.8% | |
| Tax Manager | 5 | $118,435 | at the minimum | |
| Business Analyst | 4 | $100,154 | +0.3% | |
| DevOps Engineer | 4 | $157,123 | at the minimum | |
| Software Engineer | 4 | $153,056 | +21.7% | |
| Tax Senior | 4 | $82,763 | at the minimum | |
| Architect | 3 | $86,403 | at the minimum | |
| Director of Operations | 3 | $194,500 | +25.9% | |
| Quality Engineer | 3 | $61,110 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Manager | 3 | $202,700 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Software Engineer | 3 | $150,000 | +15.7% | |
| Specialist Master | 3 | $184,558 | at the minimum | |
| Application Developer | 2 | $141,508 | +9.1% | |
| Brand Sales Specialist | 2 | $173,032 | +70.1% | |
| Engineer | 2 | $125,000 | +0.2% | |
| Financial Strategy Manager | 2 | $94,058 | at the minimum | |
| GHG Project Analyst | 2 | $86,736 | at the minimum | |
| Head of Data Science | 2 | $160,000 | +0.8% | |
| IT Project Manager | 2 | $140,000 | +20.9% | |
| Key Account Manager - Data Center | 2 | $174,080 | +24.3% | |
| Management Analyst | 2 | $96,491 | at the minimum | |
| Modeling & Simulation Engineer 2 | 2 | $134,909 | at the minimum | |
| Procurement Specialist | 2 | $83,200 | +23.3% | |
| Project Engineer | 2 | $94,500 | +10.0% | |
Seniority of the jobs filed
The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.
What these numbers are
- They are wages employers attested to on Labor Condition Applications (Form ETA-9035), not paychecks. Bonuses and stock are not included.
- A filing is not a visa or a hire. One filing can cover several positions, and some are later withdrawn. Wage figures use certified filings only.
- The prevailing wage is the minimum the employer must pay for that job in that area, set from government wage surveys.
- The city is the worksite on the filing, which can be a client's office or a remote worker's home, not the employer's headquarters.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.