Rivian and VW Group Technology, LLC H-1B wage filings
Irvine, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Rivian and VW Group Technology, LLC filed 26 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $197,500, 17.7% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.
- Filings
- 26
- Positions covered
- 26
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 25
- Worksite cities
- 5
- Filings since FY2025
- 276
- Median offer change since FY2025
- +27%
Offered wage since 2025
Rivian and VW Group Technology, LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 27%, from $190,000 in fiscal 2025 to $241,800 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 23.0% above the prevailing wage.
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.
Rivian and VW Group Technology, LLC by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 7 | $241,800 | +27.3% | $199,534 | +23.0% |
| 2025 | 269 | $190,000 | n/a | $149,365 | +21.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff Embedded Software Engineer | 2 | $241,800 | +39.8% | |
| Controls Engineer, State Estimation | 1 | $140,000 | +5.9% | |
| Electronic Design Engineer II | 1 | $130,127 | +1.5% | |
| Infrastructure Engineer II - Cloud Platform | 1 | $170,000 | +13.8% | |
| Lead Product Manager, System Experience | 1 | $205,403 | +50.0% | |
| Manager, Software Engineering | 1 | $245,520 | +23.0% | |
| Principal Software Engineer | 1 | $313,221 | +57.0% | |
| Senior Analytics Engineer | 1 | $170,000 | +37.6% | |
| Sr. BMS Control Systems Engineer | 1 | $162,245 | +38.5% | |
| Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer | 1 | $190,000 | +1.2% | |
| Senior Decision Scientist | 1 | $194,688 | +34.1% | |
| Senior Embedded Software Engineer “ Infotainment Platform | 1 | $165,000 | +10.5% | |
| Senior Software Engineer, IoT. | 1 | $195,000 | +3.9% | |
| Senior Software Engineer - Vehicle Data Services | 1 | $190,000 | +1.2% | |
| Sr. Staff Electronic Design Engineer, Infotainment Hardware | 1 | $245,000 | +37.6% | |
| Senior Technical Program Manager | 1 | $161,000 | +17.9% | |
| Staff BI Engineer | 1 | $240,000 | +6.6% | |
| Staff Controls Test & Automation Engineer | 1 | $226,740 | +44.3% | |
| Staff Data Engineer | 1 | $200,000 | +14.7% | |
| Staff Digital Product Manager | 1 | $174,275 | +9.0% | |
| Staff Functional Safety Engineer, ESS | 1 | $176,000 | +69.5% | |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI | 1 | $230,000 | +1.7% | |
| Staff Software Engineer | 1 | $234,520 | +17.5% | |
| Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform | 1 | $273,580 | +21.0% | |
| Staff Test Automation Engineer | 1 | $221,560 | +11.0% | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Palo Alto, CA | 21 | $200,000 |
| Tustin, CA | 2 | $194,493 |
| Irvine, CA | 1 | $161,000 |
| Plymouth, MI | 1 | $176,000 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 1 | $273,580 |
By visa type: 26 H-1B. By outcome: 15 certified, 11 certified and later withdrawn.
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 Rivian and VW Group Technology, LLC 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.