Illumina, Inc. H-1B wage filings
San Diego, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Illumina, Inc. filed 102 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $138,778, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior Bioinformatics Scientist (5 filings, median $148,500).
- Filings
- 102
- Positions covered
- 101
- Certified
- 99.0%
- Job titles
- 75
- Worksite cities
- 15
- Filings since FY2020
- 896
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +29%
Offered wage since 2020
Illumina, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 29%, from $105,186 in fiscal 2020 to $135,304 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 181 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.
Illumina, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 76 | $135,304 | −0.5% | $130,915 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 131 | $135,949 | +8.8% | $129,002 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 114 | $125,000 | +8.7% | $116,803 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 158 | $115,000 | −4.2% | $108,160 | +0.6% |
| 2022 | 181 | $120,000 | +4.0% | $112,341 | +3.0% |
| 2021 | 124 | $115,357 | +9.7% | $112,902 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 112 | $105,186 | n/a | $105,186 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Bioinformatics Scientist | 5 | $148,500 | +31.3% | +6% since 2023 | |
| Associate Director, IT | 3 | $184,974 | at the minimum | ||
| Sr. Design Quality Engineer | 3 | $121,846 | +9.1% | ||
| Senior Scientist | 3 | $116,376 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Engineer - Development | 3 | $127,026 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Scientist | 3 | $118,200 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Software Engineer | 3 | $157,581 | at the minimum | +6% since 2022 | |
| Associate Director, Engineering | 2 | $195,208 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal, Salesforce Architecture | 2 | $200,000 | +8.1% | ||
| Senior Engineer - Development | 2 | $112,713 | +8.2% | ||
| Senior Product Manager | 2 | $100,000 | +2.2% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 2 | $144,247 | +0.6% | ||
| Senior Staff Business Systems Analyst | 2 | $143,300 | +11.2% | ||
| Sr Staff Data Architect | 2 | $157,581 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff Software Engineer | 2 | $184,974 | at the minimum | ||
| Software Test Engineer II | 2 | $108,036 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Business Systems Analyst | 2 | $133,349 | at the minimum | +9% since 2022 | |
| Staff Software Quality Engineer | 2 | $152,400 | +16.4% | ||
| 4664-US1 - Staff Supplier Quality Engineer - US1 | 1 | $142,147 | at the minimum | ||
| Bioinformatics Scientist II | 1 | $135,000 | +4.6% | ||
| Director, Software Development | 1 | $245,000 | +3.1% | ||
| Engineer, Development | 1 | $85,862 | at the minimum | ||
| Facilities Engineer | 1 | $73,362 | at the minimum | ||
| Facilities Engineer 2 | 1 | $118,810 | at the minimum | ||
| Intelligence Analysts (Business Data Analyst) | 1 | $130,915 | at the minimum | ||
| Intelligence Analysts (Sr. Business Data Analyst) | 1 | $130,915 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Engineering | 1 | $169,250 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Software Testing | 1 | $163,613 | at the minimum | ||
| Operational Excellence Manager | 1 | $148,699 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Software Engineer | 1 | $213,512 | at the minimum | ||
| Product Manager | 1 | $100,000 | +2.2% | ||
| Regional Commercial Lead, Proteomics | 1 | $167,627 | at the minimum | ||
| Scientist 2, Early Discovery | 1 | $86,300 | +1.7% | ||
| Scientist II | 1 | $90,000 | +5.5% | ||
| Senior Analyst, Pricing Strategy | 1 | $113,880 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Director, Software Development | 1 | $277,800 | +1.4% | ||
| Senior Engineer, Process Development | 1 | $101,546 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Financial Analyst, Treasury | 1 | $90,875 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Firmware Test Engineer | 1 | $110,781 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Integration Scientist | 1 | $97,469 | at the minimum | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 75 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| San Diego, CA | 65 | $135,138 |
| Foster City, CA | 21 | $152,400 |
| Chicago, IL | 3 | $100,000 |
| Hayward, CA | 2 | $139,350 |
| Arlington, VA | 1 | $103,750 |
| Burlington, MA | 1 | $167,627 |
| Campbell, CA | 1 | $153,493 |
| Dublin, CA | 1 | $135,400 |
| Franklin, TN | 1 | $141,600 |
| Fremont, CA | 1 | $135,000 |
| Frisco, TX | 1 | $156,998 |
| Mckinney, TX | 1 | $156,998 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 15 worksite cities.
By visa type: 99 H-1B, 2 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 82 certified, 19 certified and later withdrawn, 1 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 Illumina, 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.