PayPal, Inc. H-1B wage filings
San Jose, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
PayPal, Inc. filed 1,422 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $172,486, 8.7% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior Software Engineer (333 filings, median $169,576).
- Filings
- 1,422
- Positions covered
- 1,409
- Certified
- 99.1%
- Job titles
- 244
- Worksite cities
- 71
- Filings since FY2020
- 7,082
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +17%
Offered wage since 2020
PayPal, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 17%, from $145,000 in fiscal 2020 to $170,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 8.5% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 1,122 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.
PayPal, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 1,204 | $170,000 | −0.3% | $153,325 | +8.5% |
| 2025 | 1,122 | $170,527 | +4.8% | $152,768 | +9.2% |
| 2024 | 926 | $162,692 | +2.1% | $145,985 | +7.5% |
| 2023 | 785 | $159,370 | +4.9% | $143,492 | +7.2% |
| 2022 | 929 | $151,882 | +1.3% | $136,797 | +9.8% |
| 2021 | 1,060 | $150,000 | +3.4% | $135,824 | +8.2% |
| 2020 | 1,056 | $145,000 | n/a | $131,726 | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer | 333 | $169,576 | +8.8% | +7% since 2021 | |
| Software Engineer | 223 | $138,123 | +1.4% | +9% since 2020 | |
| Staff Software Engineer | 93 | $210,000 | +14.8% | −2% since 2025 | |
| Senior Data Scientist | 62 | $172,152 | +14.0% | −8% since 2025 | |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | 58 | $186,230 | +8.6% | −3% since 2025 | |
| Senior Product Manager | 49 | $186,342 | +18.3% | +10% since 2020 | |
| Manager, Software Engineering | 38 | $224,600 | +8.0% | +1% since 2025 | |
| Lead Product Manager | 30 | $211,736 | +21.2% | −16% since 2025 | |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer | 20 | $242,876 | +16.8% | ||
| Data Scientist | 18 | $126,875 | +23.6% | −13% since 2020 | |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 15 | $138,123 | +2.4% | −19% since 2025 | |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer | 15 | $235,000 | +18.7% | ||
| Senior Lead Product Manager | 13 | $250,000 | +9.8% | ||
| Senior Manager, Software Engineering | 13 | $245,104 | +13.2% | ||
| MTS 1, Software Engineer | 11 | $189,994 | +3.2% | +15% since 2020 | |
| Product Manager | 11 | $130,000 | +19.8% | ||
| Software Engineer II | 10 | $137,844 | +1.0% | +13% since 2020 | |
| Software Engineer III | 10 | $164,518 | +7.7% | +12% since 2020 | |
| Director, Product Management | 9 | $265,547 | +3.4% | ||
| Staff Data Scientist | 9 | $220,000 | +10.5% | ||
| Senior Manager, Product Management | 8 | $256,374 | +8.9% | ||
| Sr Project Manager, Technical Programs | 8 | $140,068 | +8.7% | ||
| Sr Analyst, Enterprise Systems | 7 | $150,858 | +11.3% | ||
| Senior Manager, Data Science | 7 | $238,564 | +14.8% | ||
| Manager, Data Science | 6 | $180,854 | +14.7% | ||
| Sr Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis | 6 | $151,749 | +6.8% | ||
| Sr Analyst, Systems Analysis | 6 | $148,367 | +15.1% | ||
| Data Engineer | 5 | $140,000 | +0.4% | ||
| Director, Software Engineering | 5 | $280,696 | +4.0% | ||
| Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis | 5 | $167,586 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Analyst, Data Analytics | 5 | $137,189 | at the minimum | ||
| Sr. Product Manager 1 - Technical | 5 | $178,248 | +9.3% | +9% since 2020 | |
| Staff Data Engineer | 5 | $215,160 | +9.7% | ||
| Manager, Business Operations | 4 | $170,000 | +7.6% | ||
| Mgr Technical Programs | 4 | $179,421 | +11.0% | ||
| MTS 2, Software Engineer | 4 | $216,904 | +5.0% | +14% since 2020 | |
| Senior Cybersecurity Engineer | 4 | $171,661 | +8.7% | ||
| Sr System & Cloud Engineer | 4 | $184,000 | +15.7% | ||
| Site Reliability Engineer | 4 | $125,615 | +13.3% | ||
| Data Scientist II | 3 | $178,245 | +9.5% | +18% since 2020 | |
Showing the 40 most-filed of 244 job titles.
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Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | 888 | $185,000 |
| Austin, TX | 138 | $152,062 |
| Chicago, IL | 120 | $141,187 |
| New York, NY | 96 | $197,219 |
| Scottsdale, AZ | 88 | $135,224 |
| Omaha, NE | 12 | $103,351 |
| Celina, TX | 3 | $158,193 |
| San Francisco, CA | 3 | $164,120 |
| Washington, DC | 3 | $141,000 |
| Aubrey, TX | 2 | $170,190 |
| Bellevue, WA | 2 | $158,538 |
| Forney, TX | 2 | $116,704 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 71 worksite cities.
By visa type: 1,412 H-1B, 7 E-3 (Australia), 3 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 911 certified, 498 certified and later withdrawn, 12 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 PayPal, 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.
- 1 filing is for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year) so they can be compared.
- On 81.4% of its filings, PayPal, Inc. 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.