Apple Inc. H-1B wage filings
Cupertino, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Apple Inc. filed 7,145 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 19,418 positions. The median wage it offered was $175,040, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineering Applications (716 filings, median $181,100).
- Filings
- 7,145
- Positions covered
- 19,418
- Certified
- 99.8%
- Job titles
- 562
- Worksite cities
- 52
- Filings since FY2020
- 32,479
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +10%
Offered wage since 2020
Apple Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 10%, from $155,500 in fiscal 2020 to $171,787 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 6,316 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.
Apple Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 5,683 | $171,787 | −2.3% | $163,550 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 6,316 | $175,800 | +3.6% | $169,329 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 3,771 | $169,710 | −1.6% | $160,961 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 3,977 | $172,536 | +0.3% | $160,139 | +4.4% |
| 2022 | 4,878 | $172,000 | +5.0% | $148,221 | +12.6% |
| 2021 | 4,123 | $163,800 | +5.3% | $142,990 | +11.4% |
| 2020 | 3,731 | $155,500 | n/a | $122,824 | +25.7% |
Offered wage by job title
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing | Median since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineering Applications | 716 | $181,100 | at the minimum | −4% since 2024 | |
| Software Development Engineering | 656 | $186,142 | at the minimum | +3% since 2024 | |
| Software Engineering Systems | 472 | $181,100 | at the minimum | −4% since 2024 | |
| Machine Learning | 375 | $190,700 | at the minimum | −1% since 2025 | |
| Software Development Engineer - Test | 215 | $176,134 | at the minimum | +9% since 2020 | |
| Design Verification | 190 | $160,866 | at the minimum | −5% since 2025 | |
| Tools and Automation Engineer | 176 | $163,550 | at the minimum | +13% since 2020 | |
| Software Developer | 150 | $149,365 | at the minimum | −1% since 2023 | |
| FE Engineering | 123 | $176,030 | at the minimum | −1% since 2025 | |
| Hardware Systems Engineering | 117 | $174,304 | at the minimum | −1% since 2025 | |
| Software Development Engineer - Firmware | 116 | $181,100 | at the minimum | +7% since 2020 | |
| Physical Design Engineer | 114 | $162,500 | at the minimum | −1% since 2022 | |
| Module Design Engineer | 95 | $158,621 | at the minimum | −7% since 2022 | |
| Data Scientist | 92 | $163,300 | +1.6% | −6% since 2020 | |
| Electronics Engineer | 89 | $147,400 | at the minimum | +4% since 2023 | |
| Engineering Project/Program | 74 | $166,962 | at the minimum | +3% since 2024 | |
| System Product Design Engineer | 71 | $162,500 | +11.4% | +16% since 2023 | |
| Machine Learning Research | 67 | $183,605 | at the minimum | −9% since 2025 | |
| Software Development Engineering Manager | 67 | $226,317 | at the minimum | +13% since 2020 | |
| Software Engineering Applications Manager | 62 | $228,100 | at the minimum | +6% since 2024 | |
| Electrical Engineer | 61 | $147,400 | at the minimum | +39% since 2020 | |
| RF/Analog/Mixed Signal Engineering | 58 | $171,787 | at the minimum | −3% since 2025 | |
| Strategic Sourcing Manager | 58 | $157,200 | +8.5% | +18% since 2020 | |
| Wireless Systems Validation Engineer | 58 | $181,100 | at the minimum | +9% since 2023 | |
| Wireless Systems Engineering | 56 | $179,838 | at the minimum | −0% since 2025 | |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 55 | $199,107 | at the minimum | +12% since 2020 | |
| Silicon Validation Engineering | 52 | $158,372 | at the minimum | −11% since 2025 | |
| AR/VR SW Development | 50 | $156,583 | at the minimum | −13% since 2025 | |
| Is&t Epm | 50 | $154,600 | +3.6% | 0% since 2025 | |
| Software Integrity Engineer | 42 | $169,912 | at the minimum | +12% since 2020 | |
| Component EPM | 41 | $189,497 | at the minimum | −7% since 2025 | |
| VLSI CAD Engineering | 41 | $181,100 | at the minimum | +3% since 2025 | |
| Production Services Engineer | 39 | $172,100 | +1.0% | +15% since 2020 | |
| Software Quality Assurance Analyst and Tester | 39 | $147,400 | +20.8% | −8% since 2024 | |
| CPU Implementation Engineering | 38 | $162,946 | at the minimum | −2% since 2025 | |
| Reliability Engineering | 38 | $158,995 | +1.3% | −6% since 2025 | |
| Human Interface Designer | 37 | $171,600 | +18.4% | +12% since 2020 | |
| Product Design Engineering | 37 | $172,100 | at the minimum | +1% since 2025 | |
| AR/VR Software Development | 34 | $175,800 | at the minimum | 0% since 2025 | |
| Software Development Engineer - Security | 34 | $196,943 | at the minimum | +4% since 2020 | |
Showing the 40 most-filed of 562 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Cupertino, CA | 3,047 | $181,532 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 1,379 | $181,100 |
| Austin, TX | 878 | $154,600 |
| San Diego, CA | 509 | $157,581 |
| Seattle, WA | 442 | $182,735 |
| Santa Clara, CA | 304 | $181,507 |
| New York, NY | 87 | $179,982 |
| San Jose, CA | 77 | $181,831 |
| Culver City, CA | 58 | $163,300 |
| Beaverton, OR | 49 | $157,800 |
| San Francisco, CA | 49 | $200,907 |
| Cambridge, MA | 41 | $161,803 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 52 worksite cities.
By visa type: 7,073 H-1B, 49 E-3 (Australia), 23 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 6,331 certified, 798 certified and later withdrawn, 11 withdrawn before a decision, 5 denied.
Filings by quarter
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
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 Apple Inc. 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.
- 3 filings are for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year) so they can be compared.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.