Rocket Lab USA, Inc. H-1B wage filings
Long Beach, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. filed 9 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 10 positions. The median wage it offered was $173,400, 5.8% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.
- Filings
- 9
- Positions covered
- 10
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 7
- Worksite cities
- 2
- Filings since FY2020
- 18
Offered wage since 2020
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. made 18 filings across 5 fiscal years since 2020, too few in most years to track the wage year by year. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 4 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.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 8 | $152,323 | −0.1% | $145,631 | +5.8% |
| 2025 | 4 | $152,523 | −1.6% | $132,798 | +9.1% |
| 2024 | 3 | $155,000 | n/a | $144,934 | +16.5% |
| 2023 | 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2022 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2021 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2020 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director of Space Systems Operations | 2 | $231,000 | +14.2% | |
| Senior Development Engineer - Neutron | 2 | $108,800 | +4.1% | |
| Director of Systems and Mission Architecture | 1 | $231,132 | +5.8% | |
| ERP Team Lead | 1 | $129,667 | at the minimum | |
| Satellite Fluid Systems Engineer | 1 | $131,246 | +8.8% | |
| Senior GNC Engineer II | 1 | $173,400 | +7.3% | |
| Solutions Architect | 1 | $173,400 | +7.3% | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Long Beach, CA | 7 | $173,400 |
| Middle River, MD | 2 | $108,800 |
By visa type: 5 H-1B, 4 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 9 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 Rocket Lab USA, 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.