California Department of Transportation H-1B wage filings

Sacramento, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

California Department of Transportation filed 121 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $89,136, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Transportation Engineer (Civil) (85 filings, median $89,136).

Filings: 121
Positions covered: 121
Certified: 100.0%
Job titles: 14
Worksite cities: 30
Filings since FY2020: 451
Median offer change since FY2020: +1%

Offered wage since 2020

California Department of Transportation's median H-1B wage offer rose 1%, from $88,044 in fiscal 2020 to $89,136 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 120 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 Department of Transportation by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	83	$89,136	no change	$89,136	at the minimum
2025	120	$89,136	−12.3%	$89,136	at the minimum
2024	93	$101,616	+9.3%	$101,616	at the minimum
2023	62	$92,952	no change	$92,952	at the minimum
2022	39	$92,952	+2.9%	$92,952	at the minimum
2021	37	$90,331	+2.6%	$90,331	at the minimum
2020	17	$88,044	n/a	$88,044	at the minimum

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing	Median since 2020
Transportation Engineer (Civil)	85	$89,136	at the minimum	+1% since 2020
Transportation Engineer (Electrical)	12	$106,752	at the minimum	+40% since 2023
Research Data Analyst 2	5	$79,764	at the minimum
Analyst II	4	$72,372	at the minimum
Senior Transportation Engineer, Caltrans	3	$137,244	at the minimum	+23% since 2021
Associate Governmental Program Analyst	2	$71,316	at the minimum
Associate Transportation Planner	2	$87,936	at the minimum
Research Data Specialist II	2	$90,342	at the minimum
Engineering Geologist	1	$89,136	at the minimum
Environmental Scientist	1	$81,552	at the minimum
Landscape Associate, Caltrans	1	$77,856	at the minimum
Research Data Specialist I	1	$83,460	at the minimum
Supervising Transportation Engineer, Caltrans	1	$166,704	at the minimum
Transportation Planner	1	$73,152	at the minimum

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
Sacramento, CA	32	$89,136
Oakland, CA	30	$89,136
Stockton, CA	8	$106,752
Fresno, CA	4	$96,390
Marysville, CA	4	$98,154
San Luis Obispo, CA	4	$87,840
Los Angeles, CA	3	$89,136
Novato, CA	3	$89,136
Redding, CA	3	$106,752
Richmond, CA	3	$89,136
Santa Rosa, CA	3	$77,856
Eureka, CA	2	$83,496

Showing the 12 busiest of 30 worksite cities.

By visa type: 121 H-1B. By outcome: 116 certified, 5 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 202538

Oct to Dec 202511

Jan to Mar 202631

Apr to Jun 202641

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 Department of Transportation 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.