Palo Alto Networks, Inc. H-1B wage filings
Santa Clara, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. filed 534 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 6,767 positions. The median wage it offered was $181,454, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Principal Engineer Software (42 filings, median $216,258).
- Filings
- 534
- Positions covered
- 6,767
- Certified
- 99.3%
- Job titles
- 234
- Worksite cities
- 56
- Filings since FY2020
- 3,055
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +22%
Offered wage since 2020
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 22%, from $147,534 in fiscal 2020 to $180,019 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 588 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.
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 437 | $180,019 | −1.6% | $179,410 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 588 | $182,994 | +2.8% | $182,555 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 489 | $177,932 | +3.4% | $177,932 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 345 | $172,032 | +1.9% | $166,379 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 453 | $168,834 | +5.5% | $157,851 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 502 | $160,000 | +8.4% | $145,725 | +1.7% |
| 2020 | 241 | $147,534 | n/a | $136,180 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Principal Engineer Software | 42 | $216,258 | at the minimum | +18% since 2021 | |
| Principal Software Engineer | 26 | $196,961 | at the minimum | +4% since 2020 | |
| Senior Staff Engineer Software | 26 | $180,019 | at the minimum | +21% since 2020 | |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer | 19 | $179,396 | at the minimum | +7% since 2021 | |
| Staff Software Engineer | 12 | $149,149 | at the minimum | +22% since 2020 | |
| Senior Manager, Software Engineering | 11 | $253,468 | at the minimum | +2% since 2024 | |
| Principal Site Reliability Engineer | 10 | $199,774 | at the minimum | +7% since 2022 | |
| Principal Software Automation/Test Engineer | 9 | $177,834 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Technical Support Engineer, Focused Services | 9 | $116,400 | at the minimum | +17% since 2022 | |
| Principal Product Manager | 8 | $213,035 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff IT Software Engineer | 8 | $195,548 | at the minimum | −2% since 2025 | |
| Principal DevOps Engineer | 7 | $183,579 | at the minimum | −7% since 2025 | |
| Principal Engineer | 7 | $212,867 | at the minimum | +18% since 2021 | |
| Senior Principal / Architect Engineer Software | 7 | $246,411 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Product Manager | 7 | $195,437 | at the minimum | +23% since 2020 | |
| Senior Principal Engineer Software | 6 | $252,559 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Technical Support Engineer | 6 | $108,545 | at the minimum | −2% since 2024 | |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer | 5 | $180,019 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Software Engineering | 4 | $176,999 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer | 4 | $212,445 | at the minimum | ||
| Product Manager | 4 | $138,198 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff Engineer | 4 | $174,361 | at the minimum | +15% since 2020 | |
| Senior Staff Researcher | 4 | $181,454 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff Software Automation/Test Engineer | 4 | $148,295 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff UX Designer | 4 | $154,875 | at the minimum | ||
| Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer | 4 | $200,400 | +20.1% | +15% since 2024 | |
| Senior Technical Support Engineer, Platinum Support | 4 | $125,012 | at the minimum | ||
| Solutions Consultant 2 | 4 | $174,505 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Security Engineer | 4 | $151,452 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Technical Support Engineer | 4 | $143,577 | at the minimum | ||
| Technical Program Manager | 4 | $112,684 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Technical Marketing Engineer | 3 | $214,413 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Customer Success Engineer | 3 | $128,381 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | 3 | $160,661 | at the minimum | +8% since 2021 | |
| Senior Staff IT Data Engineer | 3 | $201,747 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer | 3 | $164,381 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Technical Support Engineer, Platinum | 3 | $125,000 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Technical Support Engineer, Prisma Access | 3 | $108,164 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Engineer, Software | 3 | $148,869 | at the minimum | +9% since 2021 | |
| Staff IT Software Engineer | 3 | $162,400 | at the minimum | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 234 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 Clara, CA | 415 | $189,800 |
| Plano, TX | 36 | $114,788 |
| Seattle, WA | 9 | $197,787 |
| New York, NY | 5 | $206,946 |
| Reston, VA | 5 | $108,020 |
| Aubrey, TX | 2 | $163,140 |
| Austin, TX | 2 | $205,200 |
| Bellevue, WA | 2 | $159,016 |
| Celina, TX | 2 | $128,300 |
| Frisco, TX | 2 | $154,988 |
| Harrison, NJ | 2 | $135,352 |
| Hendersonville, TN | 2 | $184,234 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 56 worksite cities.
By visa type: 526 H-1B, 7 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 530 certified, 3 withdrawn before a decision, 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 Palo Alto Networks, 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.
- 3 filings are for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year) so they can be compared.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.