Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. H-1B wage filings
San Diego, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. filed 62 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 4,715 positions. The median wage it offered was $139,152, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior Software Engineer (11 filings, median $130,187).
- Filings
- 62
- Positions covered
- 4,715
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 23
- Worksite cities
- 5
- Filings since FY2020
- 818
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +14%
Offered wage since 2020
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 14%, from $114,300 in fiscal 2020 to $130,187 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2023, with 197 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.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 52 | $130,187 | +2.6% | $130,187 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 86 | $126,880 | −4.5% | $126,880 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 103 | $132,801 | +16.0% | $129,574 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 197 | $114,500 | +8.0% | $111,322 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 160 | $106,000 | −9.6% | $101,109 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 151 | $117,318 | +2.6% | $117,021 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 69 | $114,300 | n/a | $112,195 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer | 11 | $130,187 | at the minimum | +19% since 2020 | |
| Staff Software Engineer | 8 | $155,030 | at the minimum | +31% since 2020 | |
| Senior Camera Software Engineer | 5 | $130,187 | at the minimum | +23% since 2022 | |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer | 5 | $184,459 | at the minimum | +23% since 2020 | |
| Camera Software Engineer | 3 | $120,322 | at the minimum | +4% since 2023 | |
| Software Engineer | 3 | $114,252 | at the minimum | +16% since 2020 | |
| Staff Camera Software Engineer | 3 | $157,581 | at the minimum | +9% since 2023 | |
| Staff GPU Software Engineer | 3 | $157,581 | at the minimum | ||
| Compiler Toolchain Software Engineer | 2 | $114,754 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Compiler Toolchain Software Engineer | 2 | $116,900 | +1.9% | ||
| Senior Software Applications Engineer | 2 | $130,187 | at the minimum | +3% since 2020 | |
| Senior Staff Camera Software Engineer | 2 | $184,974 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff/Manager Camera Software Engineer | 2 | $184,974 | at the minimum | +10% since 2022 | |
| Senior Staff/Manager Security Engineer | 2 | $185,400 | +0.2% | ||
| Modem Software Engineer | 1 | $130,187 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Software Engineer | 1 | $229,548 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal/Manager Software Engineer | 1 | $198,500 | +7.3% | ||
| Senior GPU Software Engineer | 1 | $130,187 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer | 1 | $184,974 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff Modem Software Engineer | 1 | $161,100 | +0.3% | ||
| Senior Staff Software Applications Engineer | 1 | $184,974 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff/Manager Software Engineer | 1 | $184,974 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Software Applications Engineer | 1 | $157,581 | at the minimum | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| San Diego, CA | 49 | $157,581 |
| Austin, TX | 9 | $116,900 |
| Santa Clara, CA | 2 | $184,635 |
| Boulder, CO | 1 | $161,100 |
| North Richland Hills, TX | 1 | $112,923 |
By visa type: 62 H-1B. By outcome: 62 certified.
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 Qualcomm Innovation Center, 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.
- On its filings, Qualcomm Innovation Center, 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.