Riot Games, Inc. H-1B wage filings
Los Angeles, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Riot Games, Inc. filed 89 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $157,123, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineer II (14 filings, median $182,634).
- Filings
- 89
- Positions covered
- 86
- Certified
- 96.6%
- Job titles
- 48
- Worksite cities
- 7
- Filings since FY2020
- 640
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +25%
Offered wage since 2020
Riot Games, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 25%, from $125,757 in fiscal 2020 to $157,123 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2023, with 125 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.
Riot Games, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 73 | $157,123 | +3.7% | $148,096 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 104 | $151,549 | +4.3% | $151,549 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 73 | $145,232 | −1.5% | $136,490 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 125 | $147,410 | +5.4% | $125,445 | +8.2% |
| 2022 | 89 | $139,818 | +4.9% | $119,662 | +0.9% |
| 2021 | 98 | $133,286 | +6.0% | $111,384 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 78 | $125,757 | n/a | $109,096 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer II | 14 | $182,634 | at the minimum | +6% since 2020 | |
| Software Engineer III | 7 | $184,558 | at the minimum | −16% since 2023 | |
| Database Engineer | 4 | $82,982 | +5.1% | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer II | 4 | $185,318 | at the minimum | ||
| Concept Artist III | 3 | $128,170 | +20.5% | ||
| Data Scientist III | 3 | $158,808 | at the minimum | ||
| Insights Analyst II | 3 | $135,016 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Application Engineer | 3 | $181,293 | +56.5% | ||
| Software Engineer | 3 | $161,637 | at the minimum | −13% since 2020 | |
| 3D Character Artist | 2 | $90,293 | at the minimum | ||
| Data Engineer III | 2 | $158,486 | +0.3% | ||
| Manager, VFX Art | 2 | $181,896 | at the minimum | ||
| Public Relations Strategist III | 2 | $105,435 | +4.0% | ||
| Security Engineer III | 2 | $115,825 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Principal Software Engineer | 2 | $237,141 | at the minimum | ||
| Accountant II | 1 | $82,763 | at the minimum | ||
| Accountant III | 1 | $118,435 | at the minimum | ||
| Data Scientist II | 1 | $196,914 | at the minimum | ||
| ERP Applications Analyst III | 1 | $144,414 | at the minimum | ||
| Game Designer II | 1 | $106,392 | at the minimum | ||
| Game Producer II | 1 | n/a | |||
| Insights Analyst | 1 | $123,531 | +68.8% | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer III | 1 | $158,808 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Animation Art | 1 | $177,050 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Globalization Production | 1 | $145,246 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Security Engineering | 1 | $172,827 | +7.3% | ||
| Manager, Software Engineering | 1 | $237,141 | at the minimum | ||
| Marketing Creative Director III | 1 | $142,501 | at the minimum | ||
| Network Engineer III | 1 | $164,549 | at the minimum | ||
| Platform Partnerships Specialist III | 1 | $195,229 | +31.8% | ||
| QA Engineer II | 1 | $108,971 | at the minimum | ||
| Research Scientist | 1 | $101,712 | at the minimum | ||
| Research Scientist II - Tech Research | 1 | $119,870 | at the minimum | ||
| Researcher 2 | 1 | $82,618 | at the minimum | ||
| Security Engineer | 1 | $139,916 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Game Producer | 1 | $128,627 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Manager, Brand Management | 1 | $113,256 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Manager, Insights | 1 | $159,328 | +40.7% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 1 | $226,138 | at the minimum | ||
| Service Reliability Analyst II | 1 | $64,064 | +14.2% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 48 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 71 | $157,123 |
| Mercer Island, WA | 7 | $177,050 |
| Clayton, MO | 4 | $82,982 |
| Redwood City, CA | 3 | $167,000 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 2 | $226,138 |
| Buffalo, NY | 1 | $131,976 |
| South Jordan, UT | 1 | $64,064 |
By visa type: 86 H-1B, 3 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 81 certified, 5 certified and later withdrawn, 3 withdrawn before a decision.
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 Riot Games, 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.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.