Pivotal Aero, LLC H-1B wage filings

Palo Alto, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Pivotal Aero, LLC filed 12 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $175,000, 7.6% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
12
Positions covered
11
Certified
91.7%
Job titles
10
Worksite cities
1
Filings since FY2024
21
Median offer change since FY2025
+16%

Offered wage since 2024

Pivotal Aero, LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 16%, from $155,000 in fiscal 2025 to $180,435 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 8.8% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 8 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$100k$120k$140k$160k$180k$200k$130k$155k$180k420248202592026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

Pivotal Aero, LLC by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)9$180,435+16.4%$158,995+8.8%
20258$155,000+19.2%$144,945+3.7%
20244$130,000n/a$116,730+11.4%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Enterprise System Engineer2$180,435+13.5%
Manager, GNC2$220,000+18.4%
Firmware Engineer1$133,000+0.9%
Flight Test Engineer1$135,000+0.4%
Head of Aerostructures Manufacturing1$180,000+28.1%
PLM and Configuration Specialist1$150,000+0.4%
Project Engineer1$100,000+7.6%
Senior GNC Engineer1$160,000+0.6%
Senior Staff Hardware Engineer1$220,000+16.6%
Staff Firmware Engineer1$190,000+1.2%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Palo Alto, CA12$175,000

By visa type: 12 H-1B. By outcome: 6 certified, 5 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20253
Oct to Dec 20251
Jan to Mar 20261
Apr to Jun 20267

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

Level I, entry27%
Level II, qualified18%
Level III, experienced45%
Level IV, fully competent9%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.

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