Best Buy Co., Inc. H-1B wage filings
Richfield, MN. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Best Buy Co., Inc. filed 180 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $158,223, 22.5% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineer II (25 filings, median $134,936).
- Filings
- 180
- Positions covered
- 178
- Certified
- 98.9%
- Job titles
- 81
- Worksite cities
- 8
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,054
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +26%
Offered wage since 2020
Best Buy Co., Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 26%, from $124,994 in fiscal 2020 to $157,148 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 21.6% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2023, with 183 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.
Best Buy Co., Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 125 | $157,148 | +3.4% | $125,896 | +21.6% |
| 2025 | 162 | $152,000 | +3.8% | $122,970 | +23.5% |
| 2024 | 156 | $146,472 | +4.6% | $121,650 | +22.4% |
| 2023 | 183 | $140,000 | +8.7% | $113,610 | +21.9% |
| 2022 | 182 | $128,750 | +12.0% | $107,391 | +19.2% |
| 2021 | 180 | $115,000 | −8.0% | $105,726 | +12.7% |
| 2020 | 66 | $124,994 | n/a | $113,610 | +12.9% |
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 Engineer II | 25 | $134,936 | +20.8% | +36% since 2021 | |
| Senior Engineering Manager | 12 | $181,227 | +16.0% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 12 | $167,108 | +16.7% | +28% since 2021 | |
| Lead Engineer | 8 | $158,061 | +11.4% | +4% since 2023 | |
| Senior QA Engineer | 7 | $148,294 | +18.7% | +9% since 2023 | |
| Engineering Manager | 6 | $162,789 | +10.2% | −1% since 2023 | |
| Senior Engineer | 6 | $161,060 | +31.0% | +3% since 2023 | |
| Engineer II | 5 | $135,061 | +24.4% | ||
| Engineer Senior | 5 | $151,424 | +22.0% | ||
| Product Manager | 5 | $149,919 | +26.7% | ||
| Machine Learning Scientist | 4 | $150,953 | +61.4% | ||
| Staff Engineer | 4 | $181,939 | +26.5% | ||
| Data Scientist | 3 | $123,231 | +65.5% | ||
| Engineering Associate Director | 3 | $200,558 | +35.2% | ||
| Associate Director, Engineering | 2 | $220,137 | +27.7% | ||
| Associate Director of Engineering | 2 | $222,181 | +9.9% | ||
| Associate Director, Product Management - AML | 2 | $178,438 | +45.3% | ||
| Engineer II - Tech Stack | 2 | $135,796 | +38.2% | ||
| Network Engineering Manager | 2 | $181,230 | +1.9% | ||
| QE Automation Architect - Retail Media Network | 2 | $160,000 | +19.2% | ||
| Technical Program Management Manager | 2 | $128,177 | +16.4% | ||
| Web Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud & Platform Messaging) | 2 | $184,689 | +57.7% | ||
| AI Scientist II | 1 | $126,896 | +70.5% | ||
| Associate Director, Decision Science | 1 | $160,000 | +12.5% | ||
| Associate Director of Engineering - Search Experience | 1 | $210,000 | +26.4% | ||
| Associate Director of Product Management | 1 | $200,000 | +19.7% | ||
| Associate Director, Principle Engineer, Supply Chain | 1 | $218,634 | +2.1% | ||
| Associate IT Audit Manager | 1 | $119,882 | +25.8% | ||
| Associate Lead Engineer | 1 | $153,664 | +23.0% | ||
| Associate Product Manager | 1 | $131,127 | +45.4% | ||
| Associate Tech Fellow & Sr Director of Engineering | 1 | $288,400 | +34.7% | ||
| Development Operations Engineer (Dev Ops Engineer) | 1 | $154,293 | +11.7% | ||
| Digital Engineer - GraphQL Platform | 1 | $146,014 | +0.7% | ||
| Director, AI Engineering | 1 | $235,000 | +9.8% | ||
| Director of Data Engineering | 1 | $226,600 | +9.8% | ||
| Director of Engineering | 1 | $227,700 | +6.4% | ||
| Embedded Systems Engineer | 1 | $128,750 | +20.8% | ||
| Engineer Lead | 1 | $143,222 | +50.2% | ||
| Engineer - Reliability Engineering | 1 | $152,982 | +69.6% | ||
| Engineering Manager - Consumer Apps | 1 | $161,460 | +3.3% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 81 job titles.
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Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Richfield, MN | 172 | $157,633 |
| Seattle, WA | 2 | $179,938 |
| Bellevue, WA | 1 | $127,490 |
| Boston, MA | 1 | $175,000 |
| Framingham, MA | 1 | $166,460 |
| Hillsboro, OR | 1 | $158,445 |
| Kirkland, WA | 1 | $200,000 |
| Redmond, WA | 1 | $154,293 |
By visa type: 179 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 156 certified, 22 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision, 1 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 Best Buy Co., 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.