Costco Wholesale Corporation H-1B wage filings
Issaquah, WA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Costco Wholesale Corporation filed 120 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $153,700, 17.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineer (62 filings, median $151,650).
- Filings
- 120
- Positions covered
- 119
- Certified
- 99.2%
- Job titles
- 25
- Worksite cities
- 3
- Filings since FY2020
- 695
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +21%
Offered wage since 2020
Costco Wholesale Corporation's median H-1B wage offer rose 21%, from $126,250 in fiscal 2020 to $152,800 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 17.5% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 149 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.
Costco Wholesale Corporation by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 87 | $152,800 | −4.5% | $138,713 | +17.5% |
| 2025 | 149 | $160,000 | +6.7% | $137,259 | +16.4% |
| 2024 | 117 | $150,000 | +7.1% | $128,502 | +15.7% |
| 2023 | 107 | $140,000 | no change | $127,338 | +15.5% |
| 2022 | 108 | $140,000 | +7.7% | $119,350 | +15.5% |
| 2021 | 69 | $130,000 | +3.0% | $113,110 | +13.1% |
| 2020 | 58 | $126,250 | n/a | $113,110 | +12.7% |
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 | 62 | $151,650 | +16.6% | −2% since 2024 | |
| Data Engineer | 8 | $155,000 | +17.7% | +6% since 2023 | |
| Quality Engineer | 7 | $147,700 | +4.2% | +15% since 2021 | |
| BI Engineer | 6 | $146,400 | +23.1% | −12% since 2025 | |
| DevOps Engineer | 5 | $145,800 | +23.1% | ||
| Functional Analyst | 4 | $148,400 | +11.5% | ||
| Platform Engineer | 4 | $166,000 | +9.3% | +9% since 2024 | |
| Security Engineer | 4 | $179,100 | +15.4% | ||
| Director of Professional Services | 3 | $257,490 | +36.2% | ||
| Quality Engineer III | 2 | $137,700 | +56.3% | ||
| Cloud Database Administrator | 1 | $150,000 | +19.6% | ||
| Compliance Engineer - Cloud Engineering | 1 | $175,000 | +13.4% | ||
| Data Scientist | 1 | $153,400 | +18.3% | ||
| DevOp Engineer | 1 | $168,400 | +12.8% | ||
| Endpoint Security Engineer | 1 | $212,000 | +36.1% | ||
| Full Stack Engineer | 1 | $160,000 | +24.5% | +6% since 2022 | |
| IT Manager, Software Architecture | 1 | $184,500 | +20.3% | ||
| QA Analyst | 1 | $140,000 | +4.7% | ||
| SAP FICO Functional Analyst | 1 | $142,700 | +21.2% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 1 | $170,000 | +32.9% | ||
| Software Developer | 1 | $157,100 | +20.2% | +30% since 2020 | |
| Solution Architect | 1 | $223,100 | +25.3% | ||
| Solution Architect 3 | 1 | $162,100 | +50.0% | ||
| SOX Compliance Engineer | 1 | $212,200 | +18.4% | ||
| Tax Accountant | 1 | $99,750 | +11.4% | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Issaquah, WA | 98 | $154,500 |
| Dallas, TX | 15 | $146,200 |
| Schaumburg, IL | 7 | $137,800 |
By visa type: 117 H-1B, 3 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 107 certified, 12 certified and later withdrawn, 1 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 Costco Wholesale Corporation 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.