Ford Motor Company H-1B wage filings
Dearborn, MI. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Ford Motor Company filed 861 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $125,893, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineer (71 filings, median $134,254).
- Filings
- 861
- Positions covered
- 837
- Certified
- 97.2%
- Job titles
- 510
- Worksite cities
- 113
- Filings since FY2020
- 5,129
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +47%
Offered wage since 2020
Ford Motor Company's median H-1B wage offer rose 47%, from $85,969 in fiscal 2020 to $126,410 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 988 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.
Ford Motor Company by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 674 | $126,410 | −3.6% | $125,362 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 988 | $131,130 | +13.3% | $114,691 | +8.2% |
| 2024 | 814 | $115,752 | +9.4% | $112,070 | +1.9% |
| 2023 | 669 | $105,840 | +8.0% | $94,598 | +3.0% |
| 2022 | 978 | $98,030 | +6.4% | $83,824 | +2.8% |
| 2021 | 638 | $92,134 | +7.2% | $84,032 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 368 | $85,969 | n/a | $81,162 | 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 | 71 | $134,254 | at the minimum | +47% since 2021 | |
| Data Scientist | 30 | $113,580 | at the minimum | +40% since 2020 | |
| Senior Software Engineer | 29 | $138,486 | at the minimum | +20% since 2021 | |
| Product Development Engineer | 28 | $113,580 | at the minimum | +26% since 2020 | |
| Manufacturing Engineer | 14 | $92,144 | at the minimum | +1% since 2023 | |
| Data Engineer | 11 | $131,310 | at the minimum | +38% since 2022 | |
| Full Stack Data Engineer | 9 | $121,745 | at the minimum | −11% since 2025 | |
| Product Manager | 9 | $120,411 | +11.1% | +35% since 2021 | |
| Technical Product Manager | 9 | $116,696 | at the minimum | −6% since 2023 | |
| Research Engineer | 8 | $125,362 | at the minimum | +54% since 2020 | |
| IT Software Engineer | 7 | $138,486 | +6.9% | ||
| Software Validation Engineer | 7 | $120,411 | at the minimum | +20% since 2025 | |
| Embedded Software Engineer | 6 | $126,620 | at the minimum | +32% since 2021 | |
| Full Stack Software Engineer | 6 | $107,796 | at the minimum | +51% since 2021 | |
| Software Developer | 6 | $138,486 | at the minimum | +26% since 2024 | |
| ADAS Simulation Engineer | 5 | $115,000 | +11.5% | +39% since 2020 | |
| Human Factors Engineer | 5 | $107,661 | at the minimum | ||
| Technical Program Manager | 5 | $128,877 | at the minimum | ||
| Battery Control Software Application Engineer | 4 | $126,580 | at the minimum | 0% since 2022 | |
| Body Control Software Supervisor | 4 | $160,927 | at the minimum | ||
| Data Analytics Technology Specialist | 4 | $105,810 | at the minimum | ||
| PVT Product Engineer | 4 | $123,002 | at the minimum | ||
| ADAS Algorithm Engineer | 3 | $111,654 | at the minimum | ||
| Analytics Scientist | 3 | $128,710 | at the minimum | +32% since 2020 | |
| Body Controls Software Engineer | 3 | $120,349 | at the minimum | ||
| Ford Pro Tech Software Engineer | 3 | $130,000 | +8.0% | ||
| Functional Safety Engineer | 3 | $96,720 | +0.8% | ||
| Head of Strategy, Ford Pro Intelligence | 3 | $195,811 | at the minimum | ||
| Machine Learning SW Engineer | 3 | $144,247 | at the minimum | ||
| Software Engineering Manager | 3 | $155,259 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Embedded Platform Engineer | 3 | $181,229 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Exterior Systems Engineer | 3 | $150,654 | +24.9% | ||
| Staff Software Engineer | 3 | $140,275 | at the minimum | ||
| Test Engineer | 3 | $92,144 | at the minimum | ||
| Vehicle Crash Safety Engineer | 3 | $125,362 | at the minimum | ||
| VEV Simulation Engineer | 3 | $111,654 | at the minimum | ||
| 3DX Development and Deployment Specialist | 2 | $110,783 | +1.9% | ||
| ADAS Campaign Prevention Specialist | 2 | $172,992 | +12.8% | ||
| ADAS Core Blue Cruise Engineer | 2 | $120,480 | +23.0% | ||
| ADAS Cybersecurity Software Architect | 2 | $137,465 | +14.2% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 510 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Dearborn, MI | 513 | $125,362 |
| Allen Park, MI | 78 | $120,536 |
| Long Beach, CA | 48 | $146,520 |
| Palo Alto, CA | 36 | $185,869 |
| Livonia, MI | 11 | $125,362 |
| Detroit, MI | 8 | $104,364 |
| Bellevue, WA | 4 | $144,247 |
| Canton, MI | 4 | $112,680 |
| Firestone, CO | 4 | $171,270 |
| Redford Township, MI | 4 | $107,056 |
| Redford, MI | 4 | $109,762 |
| Seattle, WA | 4 | $127,348 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 113 worksite cities.
By visa type: 854 H-1B, 5 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Chile), 1 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 837 certified, 2 withdrawn before a decision, 22 denied.
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 Ford Motor Company 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.