Safeway Inc. H-1B wage filings
Pleasanton, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Safeway Inc. filed 187 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $167,536, 11.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Staff Engineer, Software (19 filings, median $177,210).
- Filings
- 187
- Positions covered
- 186
- Certified
- 99.5%
- Job titles
- 84
- Worksite cities
- 30
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,220
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +10%
Offered wage since 2020
Safeway Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 10%, from $149,760 in fiscal 2020 to $164,071 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 11.0% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 286 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.
Safeway Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 123 | $164,071 | −0.6% | $143,844 | +11.0% |
| 2025 | 240 | $165,000 | −1.3% | $149,781 | +11.6% |
| 2024 | 192 | $167,200 | +4.5% | $143,416 | +13.5% |
| 2023 | 151 | $160,000 | −1.2% | $134,992 | +15.2% |
| 2022 | 286 | $162,000 | +4.5% | $133,307 | +16.9% |
| 2021 | 146 | $155,000 | +3.5% | $135,001 | +13.3% |
| 2020 | 82 | $149,760 | n/a | $135,262 | +9.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff Engineer, Software | 19 | $177,210 | +12.9% | −4% since 2024 | |
| Staff Pharmacist | 13 | $150,280 | +16.6% | +0% since 2020 | |
| Pharmacist | 10 | $155,740 | +13.1% | ||
| Sr Engineer, Software | 10 | $154,699 | +7.3% | −2% since 2024 | |
| Pharmacy Manager | 9 | $171,080 | +16.5% | +17% since 2020 | |
| Senior Engineer, Quality | 5 | $158,445 | +9.8% | +7% since 2025 | |
| Data Scientist | 4 | $167,783 | +6.9% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 4 | $152,678 | +9.5% | −3% since 2021 | |
| Sr. Staff Engineer Architect | 4 | $213,575 | +5.0% | ||
| Senior Staff Engineer Software | 4 | $207,460 | +6.6% | ||
| Staff Engineer Quality | 4 | $167,626 | +4.1% | ||
| Staff Software Engineer | 4 | $188,536 | +4.5% | ||
| Industrial Engineer | 3 | $125,680 | +18.4% | ||
| Staff Engineer | 3 | $175,000 | +6.7% | ||
| Staff Engineer - Data | 3 | $175,303 | +11.7% | ||
| Technical Product Management | 3 | $152,578 | +5.9% | ||
| Advanced Engineer Software | 2 | $129,172 | +21.0% | ||
| Advanced Software Engineer | 2 | $142,125 | +15.3% | ||
| Business Intelligence Analyst | 2 | $128,250 | +9.2% | ||
| DevOps Engineer | 2 | $159,870 | +29.9% | ||
| Manager, Engineering | 2 | $195,820 | +5.5% | ||
| Oracle HCM Senior Engineer | 2 | $144,000 | +9.1% | ||
| Senior Digital Product Manager | 2 | $199,188 | +64.2% | ||
| Senior Director, Digital Product Management | 2 | $291,052 | +14.3% | ||
| Senior Engineer - DevOps | 2 | $132,933 | +17.7% | ||
| Senior Manager, Engineering | 2 | $211,627 | +6.7% | ||
| Senior Staff Engineer | 2 | $205,639 | +20.6% | ||
| Sr. Staff Engineer Data | 2 | $189,862 | +3.6% | ||
| Sr. Staff Engineer DevOps | 2 | $186,347 | +14.5% | ||
| Software Engineer (Apps) | 2 | $170,000 | +13.2% | ||
| Staff Engineer Cloud | 2 | $159,379 | +6.0% | ||
| Staff Technical Analyst | 2 | $184,340 | +9.6% | ||
| Technical Project Management | 2 | $173,185 | +21.2% | ||
| Advanced Engineer Quality | 1 | $134,000 | +6.2% | ||
| Business Solutions Architect | 1 | $115,800 | +21.2% | ||
| Digital Analyst | 1 | $102,306 | at the minimum | ||
| Digital Product Manager | 1 | $168,000 | +51.3% | ||
| Director, Analytics | 1 | $239,739 | +1.6% | ||
| Director, Engineering | 1 | $250,369 | at the minimum | ||
| Graduate Pharmacist Intern | 1 | $121,451 | at the minimum | −20% since 2023 | |
Showing the 40 most-filed of 84 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Pleasanton, CA | 85 | $180,349 |
| Plano, TX | 55 | $155,000 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 9 | $150,281 |
| Auburn, WA | 2 | $126,360 |
| Bellevue, WA | 2 | $192,000 |
| North Pole, AK | 2 | $173,940 |
| Port Angeles, WA | 2 | $139,766 |
| Reno, NV | 2 | $154,960 |
| Salem, OR | 2 | $148,200 |
| Sequim, WA | 2 | $146,640 |
| Sonora, CA | 2 | $149,760 |
| Toppenish, WA | 2 | $163,020 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 30 worksite cities.
By visa type: 185 H-1B, 2 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 142 certified, 44 certified and later withdrawn, 1 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 Safeway 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.
- 2 filings are for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year) so they can be compared.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.