California Air Resources Board H-1B wage filings
Sacramento, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
California Air Resources Board filed 30 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $109,896, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Air Pollution Specialist (15 filings, median $109,896).
- Filings
- 30
- Positions covered
- 27
- Certified
- 90.0%
- Job titles
- 4
- Worksite cities
- 3
- Filings since FY2020
- 111
- Median offer change since FY2020
- −6%
Offered wage since 2020
California Air Resources Board's median H-1B wage offer fell 6%, from $117,372 in fiscal 2020 to $109,896 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 36 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.
California Air Resources Board by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 23 | $109,896 | +3.0% | $109,896 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 36 | $106,692 | +2.0% | $106,692 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 24 | $104,604 | n/a | $104,604 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 4 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2022 | 8 | $93,036 | −0.9% | $82,409 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 8 | $93,852 | −20.0% | $90,043 | +4.2% |
| 2020 | 8 | $117,372 | n/a | $104,957 | +11.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Pollution Specialist | 15 | $109,896 | at the minimum | +17% since 2021 | |
| Air Resources Engineer | 9 | $106,692 | at the minimum | −6% since 2020 | |
| Staff Air Pollution Specialist | 5 | $129,708 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineering Geologist | 1 | $109,704 | at the minimum | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Sacramento, CA | 20 | $109,896 |
| Riverside, CA | 8 | $121,164 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 2 | $86,544 |
By visa type: 29 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 23 certified, 4 certified and later withdrawn, 3 withdrawn before a decision.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.
What these numbers are
- They are wages California Air Resources Board 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.
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- Macias Gini & O'Connell LLP24
- Sutter Health19
- Nivagen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.16
- California State University, Sacramento15
- Key Business Solutions, Inc.15
- Fynbosys Inc13
- Mark David Levine, M.D., Professional Corporation12
- California Energy Commission11
- Phoenix Tech Solutions INC.10