Amazon Payments, Inc. H-1B wage filings

Seattle, WA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Amazon Payments, Inc. filed 7 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 25 positions. The median wage it offered was $133,300, 7.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Manager III, Risk (3 filings, median $133,300).

Filings
7
Positions covered
25
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
3
Worksite cities
1
Filings since FY2020
82
Median offer change since FY2020
−5%

Offered wage since 2020

Amazon Payments, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer fell 5%, from $139,583 in fiscal 2020 to $133,300 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 6.7% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 19 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$60k$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k$180k$140k$92k$120k$96k$136k$137k$133k6202011202119202210202314202416202562026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

Amazon Payments, Inc. by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)6$133,300−2.7%$126,474+6.7%
202516$137,051+0.8%$131,747+10.0%
202414$136,000+41.7%$105,810+12.2%
202310$95,950−20.0%$76,960+4.9%
202219$120,000+30.3%$101,754at the minimum
202111$92,102−34.0%$84,989at the minimum
20206$139,583n/a$79,161+44.0%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Manager III, Risk3$133,300+6.2%
Software Dev Engineer I2$129,000+9.6%
Software Dev Engineer III2$204,055+3.6%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Seattle, WA7$133,300

By visa type: 7 H-1B. By outcome: 7 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20251
Oct to Dec 20253
Jan to Mar 20261
Apr to Jun 20262

Across all employers, filings bunch up in the first half of each year around the annual H-1B lottery, so compare a quarter with the same quarter a year earlier, not with the one before it.

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry33%
Level II, qualified0%
Level III, experienced50%
Level IV, fully competent17%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.

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