Dolby Laboratories, Inc. H-1B wage filings
San Francisco, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. filed 34 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 35 positions. The median wage it offered was $141,721, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior Researcher, Sight Research (4 filings, median $106,766).
- Filings
- 34
- Positions covered
- 35
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 24
- Worksite cities
- 5
- Filings since FY2020
- 241
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +10%
Offered wage since 2020
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 10%, from $129,394 in fiscal 2020 to $142,002 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2021, with 57 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.
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 33 | $142,002 | −0.7% | $129,792 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 29 | $143,068 | −12.2% | $138,893 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 20 | $162,959 | +8.4% | $162,959 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 21 | $150,359 | −3.0% | $144,102 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 46 | $155,000 | +20.2% | $144,726 | +6.4% |
| 2021 | 57 | $128,901 | −0.4% | $123,878 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 35 | $129,394 | n/a | $129,394 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Researcher, Sight Research | 4 | $106,766 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Researcher | 3 | $167,910 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Researcher, Sight Lab | 3 | $106,766 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Foundational Audio AI Researcher | 2 | $106,766 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Researcher and Sight Lab | 2 | $106,766 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Researcher, Sound Lab | 2 | $153,171 | +63.4% | |
| Build and Release Engineer | 1 | $141,440 | +11.2% | |
| Director, Lat Am & Mexico. | 1 | $176,467 | at the minimum | |
| Engineer | 1 | $147,368 | at the minimum | |
| Manager, Business Systems | 1 | $186,279 | at the minimum | |
| Revenue Manager | 1 | $115,690 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Big Data Research Scientist | 1 | $142,002 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Engineer, Sight Lab | 1 | $129,792 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Full-Stack Cloud Services Engineer | 1 | $129,792 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Researcher - Experience Delivery | 1 | $83,554 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Researcher - Multimodal Lab | 1 | $153,171 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Researcher, Neural Video Processing | 1 | $164,403 | +22.6% | |
| Software Engineer – Advanced Imaging | 1 | $126,984 | at the minimum | |
| Software Engineer – Imaging Product Engineer | 1 | $126,984 | at the minimum | |
| Staff Applications Engineer | 1 | $156,853 | at the minimum | |
| Staff Research Engineer | 1 | $239,200 | at the minimum | |
| Staff Research Engineer and Video Codec Process. | 1 | $164,403 | +22.6% | |
| Staff Software Engineer in Test | 1 | $165,600 | +27.6% | |
| Staff Video QA Engineer | 1 | $163,613 | at the minimum | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Atlanta, GA | 16 | $106,766 |
| San Francisco, CA | 9 | $164,403 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 7 | $156,853 |
| Miami, FL | 1 | $176,467 |
| San Jose, CA | 1 | $129,792 |
By visa type: 34 H-1B. By outcome: 26 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 Dolby Laboratories, 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.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.