ByteDance Inc. H-1B wage filings
San Jose, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
ByteDance Inc. filed 769 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 1,220 positions. The median wage it offered was $225,077, 26.7% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineer (109 filings, median $195,000).
- Filings
- 769
- Positions covered
- 1,220
- Certified
- 99.0%
- Job titles
- 370
- Worksite cities
- 10
- Filings since FY2020
- 5,081
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +44%
Offered wage since 2020
ByteDance Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 44%, from $166,121 in fiscal 2020 to $240,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 33.3% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 1,381 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.
ByteDance Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 576 | $240,000 | +17.5% | $156,801 | +33.3% |
| 2025 | 1,381 | $204,174 | −1.3% | $158,725 | +22.8% |
| 2024 | 1,151 | $206,800 | +6.4% | $155,418 | +23.4% |
| 2023 | 802 | $194,320 | +5.0% | $141,378 | +21.8% |
| 2022 | 498 | $185,000 | +8.8% | $157,477 | +19.9% |
| 2021 | 426 | $170,000 | +2.3% | $145,725 | +13.2% |
| 2020 | 247 | $166,121 | n/a | $144,123 | +13.9% |
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 | 109 | $195,000 | +11.5% | +26% since 2020 | |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 34 | $260,000 | +42.0% | +5% since 2023 | |
| Product Manager | 28 | $181,293 | at the minimum | +3% since 2023 | |
| Research Scientist | 27 | $340,000 | +134.9% | +89% since 2020 | |
| Backend Software Engineer | 15 | $194,000 | +20.2% | +5% since 2023 | |
| Data Engineer | 14 | $174,304 | at the minimum | ||
| Data Scientist | 11 | $163,322 | at the minimum | +36% since 2021 | |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 9 | $168,000 | +27.2% | +5% since 2024 | |
| Site Reliability Engineer - Data Infrastructure | 9 | $219,769 | +37.1% | +10% since 2024 | |
| Engineering Manager | 7 | $377,609 | +50.5% | ||
| Software Engineer Senior | 7 | $264,514 | +40.0% | ||
| Solutions Engineer, Ads | 7 | $200,000 | +17.6% | +28% since 2020 | |
| Software Development Engineer | 6 | $198,000 | +22.2% | ||
| Backend Software Engineer, Infrastructure Platform | 5 | $214,680 | +16.0% | +12% since 2023 | |
| Product Designer | 5 | $278,600 | +39.1% | ||
| Product Manager - Lead | 5 | $311,000 | +71.5% | −25% since 2025 | |
| Product Marketing Manager | 5 | $198,750 | +4.1% | ||
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | 5 | $315,000 | +25.5% | +14% since 2025 | |
| Software Engineer, Ads Measurement Signal | 5 | $315,000 | +33.7% | ||
| Frontend Engineer | 4 | $201,450 | +7.3% | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer-Deep Model Infrastructure | 4 | $267,000 | +39.7% | ||
| Research Scientist (Foundation Model, Generative AI) | 4 | $362,500 | +111.3% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 4 | $255,210 | +31.0% | −4% since 2024 | |
| Software Engineer - Compute Infrastructure (Cloud Native) | 4 | $242,300 | +22.4% | ||
| Talent Acquisition Partner | 4 | $123,500 | +17.5% | +25% since 2022 | |
| AI/LLM Network Software Development Engineer | 3 | $191,830 | +70.7% | ||
| Backend Software Engineer, Content E-Commerce | 3 | $215,000 | +14.5% | ||
| Client Solutions Manager | 3 | $137,000 | +11.5% | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer - Senior | 3 | $365,000 | +83.6% | ||
| Operations Manager - Edge/POP/CDN Decommission | 3 | $207,000 | +71.0% | ||
| Product Manager - Senior | 3 | $348,500 | +62.2% | ||
| Product Operations Manager | 3 | $165,000 | +46.2% | ||
| Research Engineer | 3 | $272,000 | +23.3% | ||
| Research Scientist - Foundation Model | 3 | $594,000 | +149.8% | ||
| Research Scientist, Generative AI | 3 | $356,000 | +49.7% | ||
| Senior Research Scientist - Machine Learning System | 3 | $285,000 | +79.3% | ||
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data Infrastructure | 3 | $305,000 | +33.4% | ||
| Software Engineer - Ads Interface and Platform | 3 | $160,000 | +7.1% | ||
| Software Engineer, Ads Measurement | 3 | $298,038 | +12.7% | ||
| Software Engineer (Data), AI Platform | 3 | $170,000 | +7.7% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 370 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 | 541 | $235,000 |
| Bellevue, WA | 156 | $230,000 |
| New York, NY | 44 | $196,340 |
| Culver City, CA | 15 | $175,466 |
| Austin, TX | 4 | $118,440 |
| San Diego, CA | 4 | $290,000 |
| San Francisco, CA | 2 | $197,500 |
| Ashburn, VA | 1 | $142,007 |
| Floor, NY | 1 | $200,000 |
| Leesburg, VA | 1 | $93,018 |
By visa type: 749 H-1B, 14 E-3 (Australia), 6 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 744 certified, 17 certified and later withdrawn, 8 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 ByteDance 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 97.5% of its filings, ByteDance 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.