Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. H-1B wage filings
Sunnyvale, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. filed 270 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $161,298, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Regulatory Affairs Specialist (7 filings, median $120,889).
- Filings
- 270
- Positions covered
- 262
- Certified
- 97.0%
- Job titles
- 189
- Worksite cities
- 19
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,531
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +23%
Offered wage since 2020
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 23%, from $131,186 in fiscal 2020 to $161,416 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 332 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.
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 214 | $161,416 | +6.3% | $153,504 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 332 | $151,916 | +5.6% | $145,663 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 237 | $143,874 | +2.2% | $139,012 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 175 | $140,758 | +4.5% | $136,157 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 288 | $134,750 | −0.2% | $130,707 | +0.5% |
| 2021 | 146 | $135,000 | +2.9% | $130,894 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 139 | $131,186 | n/a | $130,416 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regulatory Affairs Specialist | 7 | $120,889 | +8.8% | +11% since 2025 | |
| Supplier Engineer | 7 | $136,482 | at the minimum | +36% since 2021 | |
| Quality Engineer | 6 | $136,945 | at the minimum | +12% since 2021 | |
| Software Engineer | 6 | $187,741 | at the minimum | +34% since 2021 | |
| Manufacturing Engineer | 5 | $145,205 | at the minimum | +5% since 2022 | |
| Mechanical Engineer | 5 | $144,673 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Application Development | 4 | $223,563 | +2.5% | ||
| Mechanical Design Engineer | 4 | $162,627 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 4 | $205,208 | at the minimum | +2% since 2020 | |
| Business Systems Analyst | 3 | $140,851 | at the minimum | ||
| Human Factors Engineer | 3 | $170,248 | at the minimum | ||
| Industrial Engineer | 3 | $120,182 | at the minimum | ||
| Lead IT Applications | 3 | $165,422 | +48.5% | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer | 3 | $164,000 | +5.1% | ||
| Machine Learning Scientist | 3 | $179,925 | +7.9% | ||
| Senior Supplier Engineer | 3 | $170,248 | at the minimum | ||
| Software Development Engineer | 3 | $205,208 | at the minimum | ||
| Supervisor - Software Quality | 3 | $127,100 | at the minimum | ||
| Systems Analyst | 3 | $155,961 | +9.2% | ||
| Analyst, Occupancy & Space Planning Data Analytics | 2 | $121,000 | +78.9% | ||
| Clinical Development Engineer | 2 | $152,825 | at the minimum | ||
| Component Engineer | 2 | $147,822 | at the minimum | ||
| Data Analyst Global Patient Data Strgy | 2 | $102,500 | +6.7% | ||
| Data Engineer | 2 | $182,666 | +0.6% | ||
| Data Scientist | 2 | $113,350 | +9.0% | ||
| Financial Analyst Ion | 2 | $132,008 | +6.1% | ||
| FPGA Engineer | 2 | $175,535 | +6.4% | ||
| Manager, Technology Sourcing Lead | 2 | $187,382 | at the minimum | ||
| Managing Lead Data Engineer | 2 | $176,400 | +28.1% | ||
| Mechanical Engineer Vision Equipment | 2 | $158,995 | at the minimum | ||
| Operational Excellence Engineer – Global Logistics | 2 | $144,914 | at the minimum | ||
| Program Manager | 2 | $215,386 | +18.9% | ||
| Senior Design Verification Engineer | 2 | $182,861 | +2.4% | ||
| Senior Industrial Engineer | 2 | $145,205 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | 2 | $212,300 | +3.2% | ||
| Senior Manufacturing Engineer | 2 | $138,980 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist | 2 | $146,350 | +11.0% | ||
| Senior Systems Analyst | 2 | $193,882 | +3.3% | ||
| Staff Quality Engineer | 2 | $182,700 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Software Engineer | 2 | $220,034 | at the minimum | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 189 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Sunnyvale, CA | 240 | $166,000 |
| Peachtree Corners, GA | 9 | $128,932 |
| Apex, NC | 2 | $176,400 |
| Blacksburg, VA | 2 | $135,250 |
| Frisco, TX | 2 | $102,500 |
| Minneapolis, MN | 2 | $165,422 |
| Aubrey, TX | 1 | $114,800 |
| Bothell, WA | 1 | $150,100 |
| Cary, NC | 1 | $126,800 |
| Chapel Hill, NC | 1 | $139,400 |
| Durham, NC | 1 | $178,090 |
| Eden Prairie, MN | 1 | $87,110 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 19 worksite cities.
By visa type: 270 H-1B. By outcome: 234 certified, 28 certified and later withdrawn, 8 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 Intuitive Surgical Operations, 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.