Microsoft Corporation H-1B wage filings
Redmond, WA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Microsoft Corporation filed 7,044 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 15,917 positions. The median wage it offered was $176,245, 13.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineering (4,393 filings, median $177,400).
- Filings
- 7,044
- Positions covered
- 15,917
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 130
- Worksite cities
- 372
- Filings since FY2020
- 58,652
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +24%
Offered wage since 2020
Microsoft Corporation's median H-1B wage offer rose 24%, from $142,462 in fiscal 2020 to $177,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 13.7% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 11,547 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.
Microsoft Corporation by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 5,159 | $177,000 | +3.8% | $149,240 | +13.7% |
| 2025 | 9,302 | $170,440 | +5.1% | $137,259 | +19.0% |
| 2024 | 9,492 | $162,100 | −0.7% | $128,502 | +23.1% |
| 2023 | 7,819 | $163,200 | +8.8% | $127,338 | +27.2% |
| 2022 | 11,547 | $150,000 | +4.8% | $119,350 | +29.3% |
| 2021 | 7,329 | $143,100 | +0.4% | $113,110 | +25.8% |
| 2020 | 8,004 | $142,462 | n/a | $113,381 | +26.1% |
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 | Median since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineering | 4,393 | $177,400 | +8.6% | +11% since 2024 | |
| Product Management | 336 | $187,211 | +38.3% | +13% since 2022 | |
| Applied Sciences | 280 | $185,015 | +16.8% | +17% since 2022 | |
| Technical Program Management | 216 | $182,100 | +37.2% | +19% since 2022 | |
| Data Science | 201 | $170,000 | +21.4% | +8% since 2023 | |
| Silicon Engineering | 148 | $192,450 | +23.7% | +37% since 2020 | |
| Data Engineering | 117 | $175,374 | +17.2% | +2% since 2024 | |
| Technical Support Engineering | 107 | $134,530 | +25.8% | +7% since 2024 | |
| Product Design | 75 | $176,390 | +64.1% | +22% since 2022 | |
| Financial Analysis | 66 | $146,080 | +19.9% | +10% since 2021 | |
| Product Marketing | 66 | $157,144 | +44.9% | +10% since 2022 | |
| Customer Experience Engineering | 63 | $173,124 | +30.7% | +2% since 2024 | |
| Cloud Network Engineering | 54 | $182,382 | +18.6% | +1% since 2024 | |
| Hardware Engineering | 53 | $185,000 | +21.6% | +23% since 2020 | |
| Digital Solution Engineering | 46 | $171,454 | +28.8% | ||
| Research Sciences | 38 | $194,418 | +15.5% | +16% since 2022 | |
| Site Reliability Engineering | 38 | $174,648 | +30.3% | +1% since 2024 | |
| Service Engineering | 37 | $176,124 | +28.7% | +12% since 2024 | |
| Business Program Management | 35 | $165,030 | +12.2% | −5% since 2024 | |
| Firmware Engineering | 35 | $199,500 | +1.9% | +15% since 2025 | |
| Customer Experience Program Management | 34 | $190,739 | +37.9% | +8% since 2024 | |
| Cloud Solution Architecture | 32 | $180,236 | +35.4% | +21% since 2021 | |
| Electrical Engineering | 29 | $162,750 | +37.1% | −7% since 2024 | |
| Data Analytics | 27 | $166,000 | +8.3% | +7% since 2023 | |
| Business Analytics | 26 | $174,010 | +10.3% | −4% since 2023 | |
| Business Planning | 24 | $180,090 | +44.4% | +3% since 2024 | |
| Security Research | 24 | $188,700 | +20.8% | +22% since 2022 | |
| Solution Engineering | 24 | $167,900 | +31.0% | +2% since 2025 | |
| Security Assurance | 23 | $207,066 | +30.4% | +30% since 2022 | |
| Sales Strategy Enablement | 21 | $175,000 | +9.9% | +4% since 2022 | |
| Supply Planning | 21 | $149,390 | +43.2% | −9% since 2022 | |
| Security Operations Engineering | 18 | $179,659 | +20.9% | −6% since 2024 | |
| Demand Planning | 14 | $158,000 | +48.2% | −1% since 2022 | |
| Business Applications | 13 | $166,267 | +28.2% | ||
| Mechanical Engineering | 13 | $161,700 | +57.2% | −14% since 2024 | |
| UX Research | 13 | $174,527 | +56.8% | +30% since 2022 | |
| Business Development | 11 | $162,120 | +26.4% | −11% since 2024 | |
| Customer Solutions Architecture | 11 | $179,200 | +38.1% | +17% since 2022 | |
| Business Strategy | 10 | $169,150 | +27.2% | −3% since 2025 | |
| Digital Cloud Solution Architecture | 10 | $167,638 | +40.3% | +13% since 2022 | |
Showing the 40 most-filed of 130 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Redmond, WA | 4,787 | $179,000 |
| Mountain View, CA | 577 | $202,498 |
| Atlanta, GA | 165 | $144,200 |
| New York, NY | 129 | $180,000 |
| Irving, TX | 97 | $142,981 |
| Austin, TX | 80 | $167,211 |
| San Francisco, CA | 67 | $184,580 |
| Santa Clara, CA | 55 | $215,000 |
| Charlotte, NC | 48 | $137,550 |
| Cambridge, MA | 42 | $154,308 |
| Morrisville, NC | 38 | $149,193 |
| San Jose, CA | 36 | $180,772 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 372 worksite cities.
By visa type: 6,961 H-1B, 46 E-3 (Australia), 20 H-1B1 (Singapore), 17 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 6,957 certified, 86 certified and later withdrawn, 1 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 Microsoft Corporation 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.