NVIDIA Corporation H-1B wage filings
Santa Clara, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
NVIDIA Corporation filed 2,933 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 20,707 positions. The median wage it offered was $187,728, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Engineer Senior Systems Software (439 filings, median $184,279).
- Filings
- 2,933
- Positions covered
- 20,707
- Certified
- 98.9%
- Job titles
- 393
- Worksite cities
- 151
- Filings since FY2020
- 8,711
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +21%
Offered wage since 2020
NVIDIA Corporation's median H-1B wage offer rose 21%, from $154,669 in fiscal 2020 to $186,472 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 1,889 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.
NVIDIA Corporation by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 2,467 | $186,472 | +0.8% | $178,006 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 1,889 | $184,997 | +4.1% | $176,030 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 1,362 | $177,741 | +6.3% | $164,299 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 983 | $167,149 | +6.1% | $151,902 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 848 | $157,477 | −0.9% | $148,221 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 614 | $158,944 | +2.8% | $150,093 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 548 | $154,669 | n/a | $145,870 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineer Senior Systems Software | 439 | $184,279 | at the minimum | 0% since 2020 | |
| Software Engineer | 408 | $192,073 | at the minimum | +40% since 2020 | |
| Engineer Senior ASIC | 191 | $186,472 | at the minimum | +23% since 2023 | |
| Hardware Engineer, Electronics | 98 | $186,472 | at the minimum | +19% since 2020 | |
| Architect | 92 | $186,197 | at the minimum | +12% since 2023 | |
| Engineer Senior Verification | 88 | $170,727 | at the minimum | +18% since 2020 | |
| Research Scientist | 86 | $168,000 | at the minimum | +19% since 2020 | |
| Architect Senior | 81 | $186,472 | at the minimum | +3% since 2024 | |
| ASIC Engineer | 68 | $201,787 | at the minimum | +49% since 2020 | |
| Engineer Systems Software | 60 | $143,089 | at the minimum | +9% since 2022 | |
| Verification Engineer | 45 | $191,236 | at the minimum | +34% since 2020 | |
| Program Manager | 39 | $191,359 | at the minimum | +16% since 2020 | |
| Engineer Senior Mixed Signal Design | 38 | $191,281 | at the minimum | +14% since 2025 | |
| Product Manager | 37 | $208,000 | at the minimum | +31% since 2020 | |
| Engineer Senior Software | 36 | $189,424 | at the minimum | +13% since 2025 | |
| Senior Research Scientist | 36 | $201,094 | at the minimum | −18% since 2021 | |
| Solutions Architect | 34 | $183,675 | at the minimum | +42% since 2021 | |
| Engineer Senior Physical Design | 29 | $192,081 | at the minimum | −2% since 2024 | |
| Manager Systems Software | 27 | $224,000 | +4.9% | +15% since 2020 | |
| Architect Solutions | 26 | $153,103 | at the minimum | +3% since 2023 | |
| Engineer Senior Mask Design | 17 | $161,179 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineer Senior CAD | 16 | $186,140 | at the minimum | +44% since 2024 | |
| Technical Program Manager | 16 | $195,395 | at the minimum | +14% since 2022 | |
| Test Engineer | 16 | $142,454 | at the minimum | +13% since 2023 | |
| Business Systems Analyst | 15 | $182,728 | at the minimum | +29% since 2024 | |
| Engineer ASIC | 15 | $156,853 | at the minimum | +26% since 2022 | |
| Engineer Senior Dev Ops | 14 | $196,163 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineer Product Development | 13 | $188,293 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineer Systems Design | 13 | $188,293 | at the minimum | ||
| Mixed Signal Design Engineer | 13 | $216,091 | at the minimum | +37% since 2020 | |
| Physical Design Engineer | 13 | $171,787 | at the minimum | +8% since 2020 | |
| Principal Systems Software Engineer | 13 | $272,000 | +2.8% | +3% since 2023 | |
| System Design Engineer | 13 | $166,504 | at the minimum | +8% since 2022 | |
| Applications Engineer | 12 | $182,167 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineer Senior Mechanical | 12 | $158,995 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager Hardware Engineer | 12 | $215,903 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Physical Design Engineer | 12 | $216,091 | at the minimum | +27% since 2022 | |
| CAD Engineer | 11 | $216,091 | at the minimum | +54% since 2020 | |
| Dev Ops Engineer | 11 | $180,710 | at the minimum | +8% since 2025 | |
| Engineer Dev Tech Software | 11 | $185,869 | at the minimum | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 393 job titles.
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Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Clara, CA | 2,143 | $194,656 |
| Austin, TX | 184 | $168,000 |
| Redmond, WA | 91 | $196,816 |
| Seattle, WA | 67 | $184,000 |
| Westford, MA | 42 | $171,787 |
| New York, NY | 35 | $189,592 |
| Durham, NC | 30 | $176,000 |
| Hillsboro, OR | 26 | $192,000 |
| San Diego, CA | 19 | $184,974 |
| Bellevue, WA | 10 | $218,101 |
| Frisco, TX | 9 | $248,000 |
| Folsom, CA | 8 | $184,000 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 151 worksite cities.
By visa type: 2,913 H-1B, 20 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 2,852 certified, 48 certified and later withdrawn, 30 withdrawn before a decision, 3 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 NVIDIA 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.
- 27 filings are for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year) so they can be compared.
- On 90.5% of its filings, NVIDIA Corporation declared itself an H-1B-dependent employer: one where H-1B workers make up a large share of staff, which adds hiring obligations.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.