Joby Aero, Inc. H-1B wage filings
Santa Cruz, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Joby Aero, Inc. filed 107 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $174,500, 20.8% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Staff Battery Algorithms Engineer (5 filings, median $207,300).
- Filings
- 107
- Positions covered
- 105
- Certified
- 98.1%
- Job titles
- 80
- Worksite cities
- 8
- Filings since FY2020
- 413
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +37%
Offered wage since 2020
Joby Aero, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 37%, from $127,500 in fiscal 2020 to $174,152 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 20.8% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 88 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.
Joby Aero, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 87 | $174,152 | +7.8% | $141,398 | +20.8% |
| 2025 | 88 | $161,546 | +3.2% | $121,472 | +25.7% |
| 2024 | 83 | $156,600 | −2.1% | $120,557 | +25.5% |
| 2023 | 53 | $160,000 | +8.5% | $120,682 | +31.4% |
| 2022 | 46 | $147,500 | +9.3% | $110,718 | +27.7% |
| 2021 | 38 | $135,000 | +5.9% | $110,074 | +20.6% |
| 2020 | 18 | $127,500 | n/a | $116,231 | +7.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff Battery Algorithms Engineer | 5 | $207,300 | +30.3% | |
| Senior Global Supply Manager | 4 | $164,975 | +28.0% | |
| Global Supply Manager | 3 | $118,000 | +18.1% | |
| Senior Test Engineer | 3 | $169,400 | +12.4% | |
| Systems Senior Engineer | 3 | $189,100 | +14.2% | |
| Test Engineer | 3 | $134,056 | +9.3% | |
| Flight Test Aircraft Instrumentation Lead | 2 | $190,000 | +8.4% | |
| Ground Support Equipment Lead | 2 | $192,672 | +28.0% | |
| IFPCS Testing Lead | 2 | $224,500 | +31.0% | |
| Senior Embedded SW Test Engineer | 2 | $187,600 | +35.2% | |
| Senior Mechanical Engineer | 2 | $152,042 | +15.5% | |
| Senior Product Manager | 2 | $190,000 | +44.8% | |
| Senior Software Engineer | 2 | $175,599 | +19.3% | |
| Senior Technical Program Manager | 2 | $174,356 | +10.5% | |
| Software Engineering Lead | 2 | $217,000 | +25.7% | |
| Software Verification Engineer | 2 | $135,900 | +17.2% | |
| Supplier Industrialization Sr. Engineer | 2 | $169,000 | +42.2% | |
| System Test Senior Engineer | 2 | $167,375 | +25.9% | |
| 3DX Senior Software Engineer | 1 | $165,000 | +35.6% | |
| Actuator Test Software Lead | 1 | $241,272 | +28.5% | |
| Aftermarket Program Manager | 1 | $139,000 | +29.0% | |
| AI Applied Research Scientist | 1 | $174,152 | +29.8% | |
| Airframe Assembly Manufacturing Engineer | 1 | $106,200 | at the minimum | |
| Airframe Assembly Sr Manufacturing Engineer | 1 | $145,000 | +19.0% | |
| Avionics Systems Engineer | 1 | $153,700 | +8.7% | |
| Battery Safety Engineer | 1 | $155,000 | +5.8% | |
| Cell Test Engineer | 1 | $150,654 | at the minimum | |
| Composite Manufacturing Engineer | 1 | $109,000 | +10.4% | |
| Design for Reliability Lead | 1 | $192,742 | +20.3% | |
| Design for Reliability Senior Engineer | 1 | $185,000 | +51.9% | |
| Equipment Design Lead | 1 | $237,300 | +49.2% | |
| Fleet Reliability Engineer | 1 | $135,000 | +17.7% | |
| Flight Dynamics Engineer | 1 | $141,398 | at the minimum | |
| Flight Test Aircraft Engineer | 1 | $154,950 | +12.5% | |
| Flight Test Aircraft Engineering Lead | 1 | $225,000 | +18.5% | |
| Flight Test Lead | 1 | $285,000 | +50.1% | |
| IFPCS Senior Systems Engineer | 1 | $170,000 | +12.8% | |
| Manufacturing Financial Analyst | 1 | $121,181 | +47.0% | |
| Materials Program Management Lead | 1 | $241,783 | +28.7% | |
| Materials Program Manager | 1 | $122,000 | +22.1% | |
Showing the 40 most-filed of 80 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz, CA | 78 | $175,500 |
| San Carlos, CA | 20 | $172,076 |
| Marina, CA | 4 | $125,189 |
| Irvine, CA | 1 | $240,000 |
| Pooler, GA | 1 | $240,000 |
| San Mateo, CA | 1 | $205,000 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 1 | $224,500 |
| Vandalia, OH | 1 | $92,000 |
By visa type: 100 H-1B, 7 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 102 certified, 3 certified and later withdrawn, 2 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 Joby Aero, 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.