Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. H-1B wage filings

Boston, MA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. filed 6 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $122,004, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs.

Filings
6
Positions covered
6
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
6
Worksite cities
1
Filings since FY2020
144
Median offer change since FY2020
+4%

Offered wage since 2020

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 4%, from $117,500 in fiscal 2020 to $122,004 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2024, with 38 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k$118k$110k$110k$118k$117k$109k$122k8202027202127202225202338202413202562026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)6$122,004+11.9%$116,636at the minimum
202513$109,000−6.6%$105,331+3.8%
202438$116,700−0.7%$109,491+6.8%
202325$117,500+6.8%$109,700at the minimum
202227$110,000no change$86,549+18.4%
202127$110,000−6.4%$101,379+7.9%
20208$117,500n/a$103,408+16.0%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Director, Datapoints Product Management1$163,800+20.0%
Engineer 2, Analytical Chemistry1$88,483at the minimum
Engineer II1$86,299at the minimum
Senior Engineer 1, Automation1$124,200+9.5%
Senior Organism Engineer 11$119,808at the minimum
Senior Scientist, Antibody Discovery & Characterization1$143,894at the minimum

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Boston, MA6$122,004

By visa type: 6 H-1B. By outcome: 6 certified.

Filings by quarter

Oct to Dec 20251
Jan to Mar 20261
Apr to Jun 20264

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

Level I, entry33%
Level II, qualified0%
Level III, experienced33%
Level IV, fully competent33%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.

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