Cepheid H-1B wage filings
Sunnyvale, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Cepheid filed 57 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $140,898, 10.6% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.
- Filings
- 57
- Positions covered
- 57
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 52
- Worksite cities
- 15
- Filings since FY2020
- 587
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +8%
Offered wage since 2020
Cepheid's median H-1B wage offer rose 8%, from $122,500 in fiscal 2020 to $132,250 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 12.4% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 137 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.
Cepheid by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 30 | $132,250 | −3.9% | $118,005 | +12.4% |
| 2025 | 93 | $137,596 | −1.7% | $118,394 | +14.0% |
| 2024 | 104 | $140,000 | +4.7% | $118,394 | +15.2% |
| 2023 | 83 | $133,673 | +2.8% | $113,710 | +14.2% |
| 2022 | 137 | $130,000 | no change | $111,186 | +13.6% |
| 2021 | 97 | $130,000 | +6.1% | $115,409 | +8.3% |
| 2020 | 43 | $122,500 | n/a | $109,554 | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Quality Assurance Engineer | 2 | $133,884 | +24.8% | ||
| Senior SAP Solutions Architect PP | 2 | $156,056 | +28.7% | ||
| Senior Scientist I | 2 | $135,762 | +4.5% | ||
| Sr. Supplier Quality Engineer | 2 | $148,737 | +4.4% | ||
| Software Quality Engineer | 2 | $119,247 | +27.9% | ||
| Data Analyst | 1 | $116,804 | +1.9% | ||
| DBS Leader | 1 | $146,146 | +60.0% | ||
| Director – Commercial IT Systems | 1 | $225,100 | +0.9% | ||
| Director “ Commercial IT Systems | 1 | $225,100 | +0.9% | ||
| Embedded Software Engineer III | 1 | $145,624 | +7.9% | ||
| Finance Data Analytics Engineer | 1 | $119,735 | +21.7% | ||
| Financial Systems Architect/Administrator | 1 | $173,350 | +11.3% | ||
| Human Resources Business Partner | 1 | $125,085 | +38.4% | ||
| Innovation Danaher Business System Leader | 1 | $188,729 | +57.7% | ||
| Manufacturing Chemist | 1 | $95,264 | +24.4% | ||
| Manufacturing Engineer III | 1 | $119,274 | +30.6% | ||
| Manufacturing Support Engineer | 1 | $110,000 | +20.4% | ||
| MFG Automation Engineer (Controls) | 1 | $101,500 | +9.3% | ||
| MFG Automation Engineer (Mech) | 1 | $117,471 | +9.5% | ||
| Process Engineer | 1 | $110,000 | +0.9% | +10% since 2021 | |
| Process Engineer II | 1 | $107,961 | +22.7% | ||
| Regulatory Affairs Senior Specialist, New Product Dev. | 1 | $140,898 | +18.1% | ||
| Sr. Automation Controls Engineer | 1 | $154,245 | +8.5% | ||
| Senior Component Engineer | 1 | $145,370 | +2.2% | ||
| Senior Electrical Safety Engineer, Automation | 1 | $133,025 | +3.3% | ||
| Senior IT DevOps Engineer | 1 | $150,000 | +10.6% | ||
| Sr. Manager SAP | 1 | $177,352 | +23.0% | ||
| Senior Manufacturing Engineer | 1 | $127,682 | +3.6% | ||
| Senior Manufacturing Operations Data Analyst | 1 | $131,664 | +2.9% | ||
| Senior Operations Process Lead | 1 | $117,458 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Quality Operations Engineer | 1 | $132,836 | +7.8% | ||
| Senior Quality Systems Specialist | 1 | $127,795 | +12.6% | ||
| Senior R&D Engineer | 1 | $170,825 | +2.6% | ||
| Senior S&OP Franchise/Program Manager | 1 | $170,000 | +5.3% | ||
| Senior Scientist II | 1 | $135,635 | +21.1% | ||
| Senior Scientist - Process Chemistry | 1 | $133,818 | +19.4% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 1 | $165,313 | +9.4% | ||
| Senior Supply Chain Ops Program Manager | 1 | $158,489 | +12.1% | ||
| Senior Sustaining Electrical Engineer | 1 | $156,513 | +3.0% | ||
| Senior Systems Quality Compliance Engineer | 1 | $150,854 | +3.9% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 52 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Sunnyvale, CA | 20 | $148,664 |
| Lodi, CA | 17 | $125,000 |
| Santa Clara, CA | 4 | $195,050 |
| Bothell, WA | 3 | $127,795 |
| Duluth, GA | 2 | $156,056 |
| Newark, CA | 2 | $125,242 |
| Ashburn, VA | 1 | $140,898 |
| Burlington, MA | 1 | $131,664 |
| Dunmore, PA | 1 | $95,481 |
| Irvine, CA | 1 | $188,729 |
| Krugerville, TX | 1 | $150,000 |
| Manteca, CA | 1 | $173,350 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 15 worksite cities.
By visa type: 57 H-1B. By outcome: 49 certified, 8 certified and later withdrawn.
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 Cepheid 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.