BNSF Railway Company H-1B wage filings
Fort Worth, TX. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
BNSF Railway Company filed 67 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $165,000, 5.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior Software Engineer (Product, Platform & Enterprise) (10 filings, median $165,000).
- Filings
- 67
- Positions covered
- 65
- Certified
- 97.0%
- Job titles
- 30
- Worksite cities
- 43
- Filings since FY2020
- 86
- Median offer change since FY2025
- +13%
Offered wage since 2020
BNSF Railway Company's median H-1B wage offer rose 13%, from $146,314 in fiscal 2025 to $165,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 5.5% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 9 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.
BNSF Railway Company by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 64 | $165,000 | +12.8% | $156,374 | +5.5% |
| 2025 | 9 | $146,314 | +62.0% | $139,775 | +7.9% |
| 2024 | 3 | $90,301 | n/a | $87,152 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2022 | 4 | $122,500 | +36.7% | $117,983 | +4.1% |
| 2021 | 4 | $89,599 | n/a | $89,128 | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer (Product, Platform & Enterprise) | 10 | $165,000 | +0.9% | |
| Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure) | 9 | $165,000 | +5.1% | |
| Software Engineer II (Product, Platform & Enterprise) | 9 | $117,750 | +11.5% | |
| Senior Software Engineer | 5 | $165,000 | +5.1% | |
| Senior Data Engineer | 2 | $165,000 | +16.4% | |
| Senior Software Engineer (Data Engineer) | 2 | $165,000 | +5.1% | |
| Senior Staff Engineer | 2 | $243,750 | +32.0% | |
| Software Engineer | 2 | $124,375 | +47.4% | |
| Software Engineer II | 2 | $162,225 | +78.5% | |
| Software Engineer II (Data Engineer) | 2 | $126,875 | +26.3% | |
| Software Engineer Tech Trainee | 2 | $112,270 | +54.1% | |
| Staff Cybersecurity Engineer | 2 | $165,000 | +28.6% | |
| Cybersecurity Engineer II | 1 | $165,000 | +315.5% | |
| Data Engineer II | 1 | $93,750 | +28.2% | |
| Director of Software Engineering | 1 | $315,000 | +10.0% | |
| Senior Data Scientist | 1 | $165,000 | +38.9% | |
| Senior Operations Research and Advanced Analytics | 1 | $101,900 | +31.7% | |
| Senior Operations Research and Advanced Analytics Specialist | 1 | $101,900 | +1.6% | |
| Senior Software Engineer (AI Engineer) | 1 | $178,000 | +13.4% | |
| Senior Software Engineer - Back End | 1 | $215,000 | +36.9% | |
| Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) | 1 | $165,000 | +5.1% | |
| Senior Software Engineer (Senior Data Engineer) | 1 | $235,000 | +73.4% | |
| Senior Staff Cybersecurity Manager | 1 | $261,248 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Staff Data Engineering Manager | 1 | $178,027 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Staff Software Engineering Manager | 1 | $243,750 | +23.8% | |
| Software Engineer (Data Engineer) | 1 | $110,000 | +31.5% | |
| Software Engineer II (Infrastructure) | 1 | $123,750 | +9.6% | |
| Software Engineer II (Machine Vision) | 1 | $155,000 | +70.5% | |
| Staff Engineer Manager | 1 | $245,314 | at the minimum | |
| Staff Engineer (Product, Platform & Enterprise) | 1 | $165,000 | +5.1% | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Irving, TX | 6 | $165,000 |
| Mckinney, TX | 4 | $147,500 |
| Prosper, TX | 4 | $165,000 |
| Celina, TX | 3 | $165,000 |
| Leander, TX | 3 | $165,000 |
| Little Elm, TX | 3 | $144,200 |
| Austin, TX | 2 | $112,750 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 2 | $163,962 |
| Frisco, TX | 2 | $144,375 |
| Manor, TX | 2 | $165,000 |
| Plano, TX | 2 | $146,875 |
| Pompano Beach, FL | 2 | $144,649 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 43 worksite cities.
By visa type: 67 H-1B. By outcome: 62 certified, 3 certified and later withdrawn, 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 BNSF Railway Company 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.
- 1 filing is 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.