General Motors H-1B wage filings
Warren, MI. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
General Motors filed 806 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $148,365, 13.1% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior Software Engineer (119 filings, median $152,903).
- Filings
- 806
- Positions covered
- 796
- Certified
- 98.8%
- Job titles
- 411
- Worksite cities
- 50
- Filings since FY2020
- 4,671
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +37%
Offered wage since 2020
General Motors's median H-1B wage offer rose 37%, from $108,732 in fiscal 2020 to $149,475 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 13.8% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 813 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.
General Motors by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 615 | $149,475 | +10.5% | $127,379 | +13.8% |
| 2025 | 795 | $135,271 | +10.1% | $117,853 | +16.3% |
| 2024 | 750 | $122,892 | +1.1% | $104,312 | +17.9% |
| 2023 | 459 | $121,595 | +7.6% | $94,598 | +27.7% |
| 2022 | 813 | $113,000 | +4.7% | $84,032 | +27.0% |
| 2021 | 765 | $107,928 | −0.7% | $83,262 | +22.2% |
| 2020 | 474 | $108,732 | n/a | $81,827 | +20.9% |
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 Software Engineer | 119 | $152,903 | +8.5% | +34% since 2020 | |
| Software Engineer | 32 | $127,591 | +11.4% | +33% since 2020 | |
| Senior Systems Engineer | 21 | $152,307 | +17.8% | +18% since 2024 | |
| Design Release Engineer | 15 | $131,490 | +4.9% | +39% since 2020 | |
| Staff Software Engineer | 14 | $232,500 | +29.9% | +19% since 2025 | |
| Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Scientist | 8 | $187,500 | +11.3% | ||
| Manufacturing Controls Engineer | 8 | $132,648 | +6.4% | +9% since 2025 | |
| Software Engineering | 8 | $150,982 | +10.9% | +3% since 2025 | |
| Senior Design Release Engineer | 7 | $140,000 | +5.5% | +22% since 2020 | |
| Senior Embedded Software Engineer | 7 | $165,000 | +15.5% | +36% since 2020 | |
| Senior Quality Engineer | 7 | $152,466 | +10.1% | +3% since 2024 | |
| Senior Researcher | 7 | $144,000 | +15.3% | +29% since 2020 | |
| Senior Software Engineer SRE | 7 | $151,373 | +11.4% | ||
| Software Quality Assurance Engineer | 7 | $111,713 | +30.6% | ||
| Controller Integration Engineer | 6 | $119,852 | +22.3% | +4% since 2022 | |
| Manufacturing Engineer | 6 | $125,890 | +9.2% | ||
| Senior Hardware Engineer | 6 | $144,097 | +11.5% | ||
| Senior Controller Integration Engineer | 5 | $140,000 | +11.7% | +8% since 2024 | |
| Senior Product Manager | 5 | $164,512 | +54.4% | ||
| Cost Engineer | 4 | $131,915 | +56.9% | ||
| Finance Analysis | 4 | $138,695 | +37.8% | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer | 4 | $192,500 | +11.0% | ||
| Manufacturing Engineering | 4 | $139,236 | +13.1% | ||
| Process Controls Engineer | 4 | $111,384 | +5.6% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer - Salesforce | 4 | $167,500 | +21.0% | ||
| Sr Software Engineer - Virtualization & SIL Integration | 4 | $142,500 | +14.8% | ||
| Staff Systems Engineer | 4 | $176,191 | +38.4% | ||
| Treasury Associate | 4 | $140,258 | +13.0% | ||
| Computer Aided Engineering | 3 | $120,525 | +10.1% | ||
| Embedded Software Engineer | 3 | $140,000 | +32.1% | ||
| Engineering Group Manager | 3 | $163,342 | +30.3% | +14% since 2020 | |
| Manager, Software Engineering | 3 | $182,199 | +32.0% | ||
| Manufacturing Controls Engineering Supervisor | 3 | $147,208 | +9.6% | ||
| Researcher | 3 | $119,548 | +9.6% | +4% since 2020 | |
| Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Microcontrollers | 3 | $155,000 | +11.9% | ||
| Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | 3 | $224,500 | +10.9% | ||
| Senior Process Engineer | 3 | $138,071 | +18.0% | ||
| Senior Program Manager - Vehicle Services | 3 | $145,861 | +5.3% | ||
| Senior Safety Design Software Engineer | 3 | $164,565 | +18.8% | ||
| Senior Software Developer | 3 | $151,580 | +11.9% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 411 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Warren, MI | 393 | $140,655 |
| Milford, MI | 194 | $145,000 |
| Mountain View, CA | 62 | $220,000 |
| Austin, TX | 40 | $175,000 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 23 | $235,000 |
| Pontiac, MI | 15 | $134,512 |
| Concord, NC | 12 | $136,239 |
| Detroit, MI | 7 | $133,986 |
| Seattle, WA | 5 | $144,870 |
| Farmington Hills, MI | 3 | $170,000 |
| Flint, MI | 3 | $134,873 |
| Alpharetta, GA | 2 | $185,515 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 50 worksite cities.
By visa type: 799 H-1B, 7 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 795 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn, 7 withdrawn before a decision, 3 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 General Motors 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.