Astera Labs INC H-1B wage filings
San Jose, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Astera Labs INC filed 79 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $166,400, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Tech Lead Design Verification Engineer (6 filings, median $206,315).
- Filings
- 79
- Positions covered
- 77
- Certified
- 97.5%
- Job titles
- 50
- Worksite cities
- 3
- Filings since FY2020
- 226
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +6%
Offered wage since 2020
Astera Labs INC's median H-1B wage offer rose 6%, from $160,000 in fiscal 2020 to $170,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 52 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.
Astera Labs INC by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 65 | $170,000 | no change | $165,174 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 52 | $170,000 | −20.0% | $158,507 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 45 | $212,500 | +11.8% | $179,005 | +14.1% |
| 2023 | 17 | $190,000 | −9.5% | $177,341 | +11.9% |
| 2022 | 26 | $210,000 | +13.5% | $172,245 | +21.9% |
| 2021 | 14 | $185,000 | +15.6% | $170,165 | +8.7% |
| 2020 | 7 | $160,000 | n/a | $147,534 | +17.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tech Lead Design Verification Engineer | 6 | $206,315 | +0.1% | |
| Senior Physical Design Engineer | 4 | $158,372 | at the minimum | |
| Senior System Validation Engineer | 4 | $145,455 | at the minimum | |
| Tech Lead Firmware Engineer | 4 | $176,229 | at the minimum | |
| Principal Firmware Engineer | 3 | $217,630 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Design Verification Engineer | 3 | $146,117 | +2.6% | |
| Senior Engineer | 3 | $156,853 | at the minimum | |
| Tech Lead Analog Mixed-Signal Design Engineer | 3 | $194,094 | at the minimum | |
| Tech Lead System Validation Engineer | 3 | $170,248 | at the minimum | |
| Business and Data Analyst | 2 | $149,152 | +0.2% | |
| Principal Packaging Engineer | 2 | $208,518 | +3.2% | |
| QMS Engineer and PLM Analyst | 2 | $148,000 | +23.1% | |
| Senior Analog Mixed Signal Design Engineer | 2 | $163,427 | +21.0% | |
| Senior Principal Product Apps Engineer | 2 | $216,091 | at the minimum | |
| Advanced DV Engineer | 1 | $155,000 | +62.9% | |
| Customer Ops Systems and Process Specialist | 1 | $125,694 | at the minimum | |
| Director of Product Management | 1 | $200,000 | +0.7% | |
| Electrical Validation Engineer | 1 | $155,000 | +62.9% | |
| Emulation Engineer | 1 | $150,238 | at the minimum | |
| Firmware Engineer | 1 | $149,365 | at the minimum | |
| Hardware NPI/Electrical Product Engineer | 1 | $171,110 | at the minimum | |
| Physical Design Engineer | 1 | $127,234 | at the minimum | |
| Principal Design Verification Engineer | 1 | $229,590 | +6.2% | |
| Principal Design Verification Engineers | 1 | $260,000 | +19.5% | |
| Principal Digital Design Engineer | 1 | $229,590 | at the minimum | |
| Principal Physical Design Engineer | 1 | $246,240 | +14.0% | |
| Principal Quality Engineer | 1 | $176,000 | +3.4% | |
| Principal Systems Validation Engineer | 1 | $225,000 | +11.9% | |
| Semiconductor Packaging Engineer | 1 | $156,853 | +23.3% | |
| Senior Diagnostic Platform Software Engineer | 1 | $166,400 | +28.2% | |
| Senior Director of Sales | 1 | $260,728 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Firmware Engineer | 1 | $163,192 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Network Engineer | 1 | $153,962 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Package Design Engineer | 1 | $151,953 | at the minimum | |
| Sr. Principal Application Engineer | 1 | $216,091 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Principal Design Verification Engineer | 1 | $216,091 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Principal Digital Design Engineer | 1 | $217,630 | at the minimum | |
| Sr. Principal DSP Architect | 1 | $229,590 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Principal DV Engineer | 1 | $263,925 | +22.1% | |
| Senior Principal Platform Diagnostic SE | 1 | $234,000 | +7.5% | |
Showing the 40 most-filed of 50 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | 77 | $166,400 |
| Irvine, CA | 1 | $170,000 |
| San Jsoe, CA | 1 | $163,192 |
By visa type: 79 H-1B. By outcome: 77 certified, 2 withdrawn before a decision.
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 Astera Labs 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.
- On 98.7% of its filings, Astera Labs INC declared itself an H-1B-dependent employer: one where H-1B workers make up a large share of staff, which adds hiring obligations.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.