Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. H-1B wage filings
Sugar Land, TX. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. filed 48 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $85,395, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Production Engineer (8 filings, median $83,304).
- Filings
- 48
- Positions covered
- 48
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 22
- Worksite cities
- 4
- Filings since FY2020
- 119
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +11%
Offered wage since 2020
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 11%, from $76,960 in fiscal 2020 to $85,800 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 30 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.
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 43 | $85,800 | +7.3% | $83,928 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 30 | $79,997 | +6.2% | $71,490 | +4.9% |
| 2024 | 9 | $75,296 | −4.4% | $74,214 | +0.2% |
| 2023 | 5 | $78,749 | −1.6% | $74,173 | +6.1% |
| 2022 | 7 | $79,997 | +1.7% | $79,352 | +0.8% |
| 2021 | 11 | $78,624 | +2.2% | $70,907 | +1.3% |
| 2020 | 14 | $76,960 | n/a | $75,608 | +0.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Production Engineer | 8 | $83,304 | at the minimum | |
| Computer Programmer | 6 | $87,059 | at the minimum | |
| Process Engineer | 6 | $97,022 | at the minimum | |
| Manufacturing Engineer | 3 | $79,997 | +13.0% | |
| Buyer | 2 | $82,888 | at the minimum | |
| Field Application Specialist | 2 | $112,847 | +2.6% | |
| Product Management Engineer | 2 | $91,605 | +6.5% | |
| Production Automation Engineer | 2 | $88,099 | +1.6% | |
| Strategic Sourcing Specialist | 2 | $81,000 | +9.0% | |
| Wafer Process Engineer | 2 | $86,554 | +2.0% | |
| Wafer Process Specialist | 2 | $90,834 | at the minimum | |
| Full Stack Software Developer | 1 | $100,000 | +17.8% | |
| Global Strategic Sourcing Engineer | 1 | $150,000 | +57.8% | |
| LabVIEW Engineer | 1 | $84,989 | +20.1% | |
| Management Analyst | 1 | $71,000 | +5.6% | |
| MBE Specialist | 1 | $103,210 | at the minimum | |
| MOCVD Specialist | 1 | $119,995 | +12.2% | |
| Optical Coating Specialist | 1 | $74,672 | at the minimum | |
| R&D Electrical Engineer | 1 | $115,939 | +0.8% | |
| R&D Engineer | 1 | $132,748 | +1.3% | |
| R&D Scientist | 1 | $122,470 | at the minimum | |
| Trade Compliance Specialist | 1 | $83,000 | +0.5% | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Sugar Land, TX | 45 | $84,000 |
| Duluth, GA | 1 | $85,800 |
| Redmond, WA | 1 | $100,000 |
| San Jose, CA | 1 | $125,694 |
By visa type: 48 H-1B. By outcome: 48 certified.
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 Applied Optoelectronics, 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.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.