Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. H-1B wage filings
San Jose, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. filed 155 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 2,540 positions. The median wage it offered was $165,422, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Staff Engineer (24 filings, median $186,472).
- Filings
- 155
- Positions covered
- 2,540
- Certified
- 98.7%
- Job titles
- 89
- Worksite cities
- 10
- Filings since FY2020
- 919
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +29%
Offered wage since 2020
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 29%, from $128,149 in fiscal 2020 to $165,422 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2023, with 154 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.
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 131 | $165,422 | −0.8% | $165,422 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 130 | $166,733 | +7.1% | $166,733 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 110 | $155,709 | +2.5% | $155,469 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 154 | $151,902 | +4.1% | $150,509 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 135 | $145,871 | +3.0% | $145,060 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 125 | $141,669 | +10.6% | $141,669 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 134 | $128,149 | n/a | $128,149 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff Engineer | 24 | $186,472 | at the minimum | +32% since 2020 | |
| Senior Engineer | 21 | $156,853 | at the minimum | +22% since 2020 | |
| Engineer | 7 | $130,187 | at the minimum | +17% since 2020 | |
| Engineer, Firmware | 4 | $140,712 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff Engineer | 4 | $200,533 | at the minimum | +27% since 2020 | |
| AI/ML Hardware/Software Validation | 2 | $120,358 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineer, Firmware NVMe | 2 | $123,606 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Engineer, Modem Systems Research, Advanced Research | 2 | $152,506 | +9.2% | ||
| Senior Engineer, SRAM Circuit Design | 2 | $156,853 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Manager | 2 | $253,356 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior RF Analog IC Engineer | 2 | $173,181 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Staff Engineer, DRAM | 2 | $229,590 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Engineer, AI HW/SW Codesign | 2 | $226,138 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Engineer, Firmware | 2 | $195,132 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Performance Analysis Engineer | 2 | $137,228 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff RF/Analog IC Engineer | 2 | $186,472 | at the minimum | ||
| Associate Manager, Sales | 1 | $89,128 | at the minimum | ||
| Director, SOC Architecture | 1 | $216,091 | at the minimum | ||
| Director, SOC Product Planning | 1 | $216,091 | at the minimum | ||
| Director, SW Dev. Infrastructure Engineering | 1 | $233,230 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineer, Customer Firmware | 1 | $140,712 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineer - Design | 1 | $136,505 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineer, Firmware Development | 1 | $139,722 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineer, Firmware NVM | 1 | $129,792 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineer, High Performance Computing | 1 | $139,495 | at the minimum | ||
| Engineer, SSD Test | 1 | $129,792 | at the minimum | ||
| Firmware Engineer | 1 | $140,712 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Customer Quality Engineering | 1 | $163,764 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, DRAM Customer Quality | 1 | $181,293 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Strategic Planning | 1 | $163,405 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Engineer, AI/ML Software Compiler | 1 | $264,514 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Engineer, ASIC Verification | 1 | $161,179 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Engineer, Firmware | 1 | $264,514 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Engineer – Firmware NVMe | 1 | $248,425 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Engineer, Storage (AI & HPC) | 1 | $264,514 | at the minimum | ||
| Sales Associate | 1 | $89,128 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Director, Display Marketing | 1 | $260,728 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Engineer, AI/ML Software Compiler | 1 | $187,741 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Engineer, Customer Firmware | 1 | $164,007 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Engineer, Deep Learning AI Systems Engineering | 1 | $130,187 | at the minimum | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 89 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | 121 | $186,472 |
| San Diego, CA | 23 | $130,187 |
| Austin, TX | 2 | $161,179 |
| Bellevue, WA | 2 | $89,128 |
| Ellicott City, MD | 2 | $137,228 |
| Aurora, CO | 1 | $132,018 |
| Charlotte, NC | 1 | $133,536 |
| Folsom, CA | 1 | $173,618 |
| Garner, NC | 1 | $130,832 |
| Oak Hill, VA | 1 | $233,230 |
By visa type: 155 H-1B. By outcome: 147 certified, 6 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision, 1 denied.
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 Samsung Semiconductor, 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.