Cruise LLC H-1B wage filings
Detroit, MI. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Cruise LLC filed 40 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $227,819, 14.7% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior AI/ML Engineer (7 filings, median $234,790).
- Filings
- 40
- Positions covered
- 38
- Certified
- 95.0%
- Job titles
- 22
- Worksite cities
- 17
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,122
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +46%
Offered wage since 2020
Cruise LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 46%, from $161,000 in fiscal 2020 to $234,790 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 16.1% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 261 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.
Cruise LLC by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 23 | $234,790 | +12.9% | $194,834 | +16.1% |
| 2025 | 90 | $208,000 | +5.0% | $180,960 | +14.9% |
| 2024 | 153 | $198,100 | +1.1% | $180,960 | +12.4% |
| 2023 | 251 | $196,040 | +6.0% | $168,709 | +14.6% |
| 2022 | 261 | $185,000 | +1.6% | $144,726 | +23.1% |
| 2021 | 202 | $182,000 | +13.0% | $145,246 | +23.9% |
| 2020 | 142 | $161,000 | n/a | $136,760 | +18.3% |
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 AI/ML Engineer | 7 | $234,790 | +10.6% | ||
| Principal AI/ML Engineer | 3 | $317,193 | +49.0% | ||
| Senior ML Systems Engineer II | 3 | $244,800 | +22.3% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 3 | $235,421 | +12.2% | +8% since 2020 | |
| Software Engineer | 3 | $187,741 | +19.5% | +12% since 2020 | |
| AI/ML Engineer | 2 | $206,679 | +14.4% | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer | 2 | $202,000 | +20.1% | ||
| Senior Data Scientist II | 2 | $237,125 | +21.7% | ||
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer II | 2 | $216,619 | +1.0% | ||
| AI/ML Engineer - AV System Performance | 1 | $222,908 | +18.7% | ||
| Senior Applied Scientist | 1 | $229,500 | +14.9% | ||
| Senior Manager, Software Engineer | 1 | $290,290 | +57.8% | ||
| Senior ML Systems Engineer | 1 | $191,500 | +2.0% | ||
| Senior Product Management - Technical II | 1 | $204,900 | +10.2% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer II | 1 | $197,800 | +5.4% | −14% since 2023 | |
| Staff AI/ML Engineer | 1 | $290,000 | +74.1% | ||
| Staff AI/ML Engineer- Embodied AI | 1 | $283,000 | +45.3% | ||
| Staff Applied Scientist | 1 | $254,100 | +27.2% | ||
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer | 1 | $288,400 | +60.2% | ||
| Staff Software Engineer | 1 | $213,512 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff System Test Engineer | 1 | $235,700 | +26.8% | ||
| Systems Engineering Analyst, Autonomous Vehicles & Driving | 1 | $176,000 | +25.8% | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco, CA | 10 | $241,800 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 9 | $204,000 |
| Fremont, CA | 3 | $239,488 |
| Bellevue, WA | 2 | $323,500 |
| Bothell, WA | 2 | $234,790 |
| Duvall, WA | 2 | $206,679 |
| Pleasanton, CA | 2 | $234,600 |
| Atlanta, GA | 1 | $200,000 |
| Boston, MA | 1 | $184,820 |
| Fort Mill, SC | 1 | $198,906 |
| Glenshaw, PA | 1 | $290,290 |
| Kirkland, WA | 1 | $204,000 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 17 worksite cities.
By visa type: 40 H-1B. By outcome: 38 certified, 2 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 Cruise LLC 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.
- 1 filing is 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.