California Energy Commission H-1B wage filings

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

California Energy Commission filed 11 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $77,856, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Information Technology Specialist I (5 filings, median $75,876).

Filings
11
Positions covered
11
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
7
Worksite cities
1
Filings since FY2024
23
Median offer change since FY2025
−22%

Offered wage since 2024

California Energy Commission's median H-1B wage offer fell 22%, from $100,488 in fiscal 2025 to $78,006 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 15 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$60k$80k$100k$120k$100k$78k2202415202562026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

California Energy Commission by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)6$78,006−22.4%$78,006at the minimum
202515$100,488n/a$100,488at the minimum
20242n/an/an/an/a

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Information Technology Specialist I5$75,876at the minimum
Air Resources Engineer1$77,856at the minimum
Associate Energy Specialist1$73,284at the minimum
Civil Engineer1$77,856at the minimum
Electric Generation System Specialist I1$104,652at the minimum
Program and Project Supervisor1$150,744at the minimum
Research Data Specialist II1$91,680at the minimum

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Sacramento, CA11$77,856

By visa type: 11 H-1B. By outcome: 11 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20255
Oct to Dec 20251
Apr to Jun 20265

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

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.

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