Cisco Systems, Inc. H-1B wage filings
San Jose, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Cisco Systems, Inc. filed 1,392 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 17,786 positions. The median wage it offered was $152,693, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineer (239 filings, median $149,240).
- Filings
- 1,392
- Positions covered
- 17,786
- Certified
- 99.4%
- Job titles
- 209
- Worksite cities
- 138
- Filings since FY2020
- 10,313
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +25%
Offered wage since 2020
Cisco Systems, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 25%, from $122,408 in fiscal 2020 to $152,506 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 2,141 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.
Cisco Systems, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 1,195 | $152,506 | +8.6% | $144,310 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 1,249 | $140,400 | +5.3% | $132,267 | +1.5% |
| 2024 | 1,246 | $133,300 | +2.2% | $124,904 | +0.9% |
| 2023 | 1,285 | $130,377 | +2.3% | $120,786 | +0.6% |
| 2022 | 2,141 | $127,500 | −8.8% | $119,933 | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 2,012 | $139,786 | +14.2% | $121,564 | +10.8% |
| 2020 | 1,185 | $122,408 | n/a | $112,536 | at the minimum |
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 | 239 | $149,240 | at the minimum | +22% since 2020 | |
| Software Engineering Technical Leader | 111 | $203,155 | at the minimum | +24% since 2021 | |
| Engineering Product Manager | 48 | $161,630 | at the minimum | −5% since 2021 | |
| Leader, Software Engineering | 40 | $213,512 | at the minimum | +29% since 2022 | |
| Technical Consulting Engineer | 34 | $114,100 | +8.4% | +19% since 2020 | |
| Software QA Engineer | 31 | $138,500 | +17.5% | +19% since 2022 | |
| Hardware Engineer | 29 | $160,611 | at the minimum | +44% since 2020 | |
| ASIC Engineer | 27 | $156,853 | at the minimum | +15% since 2021 | |
| Solutions Engineer | 27 | $126,422 | at the minimum | +7% since 2024 | |
| Product Designer | 24 | $135,800 | +13.0% | +10% since 2023 | |
| Engineering Technical Leader | 22 | $176,583 | at the minimum | +4% since 2021 | |
| Customer Delivery Architect | 21 | $166,500 | +11.2% | +32% since 2020 | |
| Strategy & Planning Manager | 20 | $174,000 | +6.2% | +14% since 2022 | |
| Data Engineer | 18 | $146,372 | +1.1% | +7% since 2020 | |
| ASIC Engineering Technical Leader | 17 | $186,472 | at the minimum | +19% since 2024 | |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 17 | $165,300 | +10.5% | −8% since 2025 | |
| Consulting Engineer | 14 | $114,100 | +8.9% | +18% since 2020 | |
| Data Scientist | 13 | $161,400 | +8.0% | +23% since 2020 | |
| Hardware Engineering Technical Leader | 13 | $177,757 | at the minimum | +10% since 2024 | |
| Technical Systems Engineer | 13 | $143,361 | at the minimum | +6% since 2021 | |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 12 | $137,000 | +0.6% | +70% since 2022 | |
| Customer Escalations Engineer | 11 | $127,100 | +10.1% | +11% since 2023 | |
| Software Consulting Engineering Technical Leader | 11 | $158,500 | at the minimum | +2% since 2024 | |
| Solutions Architect | 11 | $166,500 | at the minimum | +33% since 2020 | |
| Cloud Engineering Technical Leader | 10 | $160,424 | +9.3% | −15% since 2024 | |
| Machine Learning Engineering Technical Leader | 10 | $212,906 | +7.0% | +3% since 2025 | |
| AI Researcher | 9 | $199,700 | +23.7% | +0% since 2025 | |
| Cloud Engineer | 9 | $135,408 | at the minimum | +11% since 2020 | |
| Director, Software Engineering | 9 | $274,497 | at the minimum | +27% since 2024 | |
| Leader, Product Management | 9 | $191,400 | +5.6% | +8% since 2023 | |
| Security Engineer | 9 | $152,500 | +8.5% | +16% since 2024 | |
| Software Consulting Engineer | 9 | $160,805 | at the minimum | +58% since 2022 | |
| Business Architect | 8 | $139,200 | +8.7% | +21% since 2022 | |
| Business Systems Analysis Manager | 8 | $135,283 | at the minimum | +16% since 2022 | |
| Customer Experience Customer Success Specialist | 8 | $119,860 | +9.9% | +13% since 2022 | |
| Data Engineering Technical Leader | 8 | $166,450 | +3.3% | +12% since 2025 | |
| Engineering Project Manager | 8 | $127,867 | +9.1% | +26% since 2024 | |
| Project Manager | 8 | $111,632 | at the minimum | −9% since 2020 | |
| Software Development Test Engineer | 8 | $158,750 | +3.0% | +42% since 2022 | |
| Software Engineering Architect | 8 | $143,136 | +0.4% | −2% since 2025 | |
Showing the 40 most-filed of 209 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 | 366 | $179,094 |
| Research Triangle Park, NC | 136 | $135,408 |
| Milpitas, CA | 117 | $181,293 |
| San Francisco, CA | 116 | $171,848 |
| Richardson, TX | 82 | $132,391 |
| Seattle, WA | 67 | $169,065 |
| Austin, TX | 65 | $135,907 |
| Morrisville, NC | 63 | $135,800 |
| Chicago, IL | 28 | $123,240 |
| Holmdel, NJ | 25 | $165,000 |
| Atlanta, GA | 23 | $130,707 |
| New York, NY | 22 | $159,503 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 138 worksite cities.
By visa type: 1,383 H-1B, 7 E-3 (Australia), 2 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 1,384 certified, 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 Cisco Systems, 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.
- 8 filings are for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year) so they can be compared.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.