H-1B wage filings in San Francisco, CA
Jobs with a worksite in San Francisco, California. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
12,940 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas named San Francisco, CA as the worksite from July 2025 to June 2026, from 2,569 employers. The median offered wage was $185,994, 11.0% above the government's prevailing wage for those jobs in the area. The most-filed job was Software Engineer (1,205).
- Filings
- 12,940
- Positions covered
- 22,976
- Employers
- 2,569
- Median offered
- $185,994
- Median prevailing wage
- $161,637
- Filings since FY2020
- 90,247
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +38%
Offered wage since 2020
The median wage offered for jobs in San Francisco, CA rose 38%, from $135,000 in fiscal 2020 to $185,994 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 10.8% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2020, with 15,677 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.
San Francisco, CA by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 10,373 | $185,994 | +6.3% | $161,637 | +10.8% |
| 2025 | 11,809 | $175,000 | +3.2% | $155,605 | +11.8% |
| 2024 | 11,082 | $169,562 | +6.0% | $147,368 | +12.7% |
| 2023 | 11,939 | $160,000 | +1.9% | $132,870 | +12.7% |
| 2022 | 15,364 | $157,000 | +8.1% | $127,088 | +14.0% |
| 2021 | 14,003 | $145,246 | +7.6% | $121,763 | +7.6% |
| 2020 | 15,677 | $135,000 | n/a | $119,122 | +4.9% |
Employers filing for jobs in San Francisco
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
| Employer | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce, Inc. | 791 | $222,977 | +23.6% | |
| University of California, San Francisco | 357 | $88,000 | at the minimum | |
| Amazon.com Services LLC | 310 | $185,947 | +17.4% | |
| Google LLC | 297 | $196,000 | +19.4% | |
| Uber Technologies, Inc. | 277 | $188,000 | +13.5% | |
| Anthropic, PBC | 258 | $188,000 | at the minimum | |
| Ernst & Young U.S. LLP | 249 | $158,323 | +29.5% | |
| OpenAI OpCo, LLC | 219 | $280,000 | +70.9% | |
| Airbnb, Inc. | 157 | $191,000 | +13.0% | |
| Databricks, Inc. | 144 | $153,227 | +20.5% | |
| DoorDash, Inc. | 140 | $187,741 | +13.2% | |
| Adobe Inc. | 129 | $178,065 | +9.7% | |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | 116 | $171,848 | at the minimum | |
| LinkedIn Corporation | 110 | $161,637 | at the minimum | |
| Autodesk, Inc. | 101 | $185,994 | at the minimum | |
| Meta Platforms, Inc | 100 | $221,002 | +21.6% | |
| Pinterest, Inc. | 96 | $187,741 | +19.3% | |
| Chime Financial, Inc. | 92 | $200,000 | +9.9% | |
| Amazon Web Services, Inc. | 85 | $190,000 | +8.9% | |
| Scale AI, Inc. | 84 | $216,200 | +21.0% | |
| Resolve AI, Inc. | 83 | $230,000 | +12.0% | |
| Docusign Inc. | 82 | $213,512 | at the minimum | |
| Social Finance, LLC | 81 | $210,000 | +23.4% | |
| Crusoe Energy Systems LLC | 81 | $220,000 | +20.6% | |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 79 | $175,000 | +21.1% | |
Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 2,569. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.
Most-filed job titles in San Francisco
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 1,205 | $187,741 | +9.0% | |
| Senior Software Engineer | 479 | $200,000 | +8.2% | |
| Member of Technical Staff | 335 | $209,082 | +4.0% | |
| Software Engineering SMTS | 215 | $212,550 | +19.3% | |
| Staff Software Engineer | 156 | $231,750 | +17.1% | |
| Associate | 143 | $172,500 | +30.8% | |
| Product Manager | 139 | $185,200 | +17.5% | |
| Software Engineering LMTS | 128 | $250,570 | +30.4% | |
| Software Engineering MTS | 119 | $175,100 | +13.2% | |
| Data Scientist | 117 | $165,460 | +12.6% | |
| Postdoctoral Scholar | 117 | $77,030 | at the minimum | |
| Accountants and Auditors | 104 | $135,991 | +28.0% | |
| Software Dev Engineer II | 89 | $185,200 | +18.5% | |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 80 | $187,658 | +11.3% | |
| Software Engineer II | 69 | $172,931 | +10.1% | |
| Product Designer | 63 | $164,183 | +30.1% | |
| Senior Data Scientist | 62 | $195,177 | +12.7% | |
| Engineering Manager | 58 | $250,000 | +10.4% | |
| Manager | 57 | $192,000 | +12.1% | |
| Software Dev Engineer I | 55 | $148,400 | +9.4% | |
| Founding Engineer | 52 | $180,000 | +2.1% | |
| Senior Product Manager | 52 | $200,000 | +7.5% | |
| Senior Associate | 50 | $154,000 | +26.7% | |
| Associate Specialist | 49 | $83,600 | at the minimum | |
| Vice President | 49 | $190,000 | +22.2% | |
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.