Snap Inc. H-1B wage filings
Santa Monica, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Snap Inc. filed 346 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $180,710, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineer IV (83 filings, median $174,015).
- Filings
- 346
- Positions covered
- 338
- Certified
- 97.7%
- Job titles
- 92
- Worksite cities
- 12
- Filings since FY2020
- 2,289
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +37%
Offered wage since 2020
Snap Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 37%, from $131,726 in fiscal 2020 to $179,994 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 377 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.
Snap Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 286 | $179,994 | +7.7% | $178,006 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 377 | $167,149 | +7.5% | $165,610 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 367 | $155,418 | +5.4% | $155,418 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 332 | $147,410 | +5.0% | $145,725 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 359 | $140,369 | +4.7% | $139,818 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 323 | $134,098 | +1.8% | $130,811 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 245 | $131,726 | n/a | $131,726 | 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 IV | 83 | $174,015 | at the minimum | +18% since 2020 | |
| Software Engineer (5) | 40 | $212,202 | at the minimum | +33% since 2020 | |
| Machine Learning Engineer (4) | 39 | $174,015 | at the minimum | +20% since 2022 | |
| Machine Learning Engineer (5) | 28 | $202,346 | at the minimum | +10% since 2023 | |
| Data Scientist (4) | 11 | $139,506 | at the minimum | +35% since 2021 | |
| Machine Learning Engineer III | 7 | $132,317 | at the minimum | +87% since 2022 | |
| Product Manager (4) | 7 | $126,818 | at the minimum | ||
| Software Engineer III | 7 | $129,927 | at the minimum | −2% since 2020 | |
| Manager, Software Engineering (6) | 5 | $220,854 | at the minimum | −10% since 2024 | |
| Senior Data Scientist (5) | 5 | $194,834 | at the minimum | +35% since 2023 | |
| Business Intelligence Engineer (4) | 4 | $157,080 | at the minimum | ||
| Quality Engineer (4) | 4 | $168,917 | at the minimum | −8% since 2022 | |
| Manager, Software Engineer (6) | 3 | $212,202 | at the minimum | ||
| Marketing Science Lead (4) | 3 | $139,506 | at the minimum | ||
| Security Engineer IV | 3 | $157,123 | at the minimum | +10% since 2020 | |
| Security Engineer (5) | 3 | $202,346 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer (6) | 3 | $169,541 | at the minimum | ||
| Client Partner (4) | 2 | $118,564 | at the minimum | ||
| Lead Business Intelligence Engineer (5) | 2 | $166,556 | at the minimum | ||
| Product Marketing Manager (5) | 2 | $180,266 | at the minimum | ||
| Quality Engineer (5) | 2 | $207,274 | at the minimum | ||
| Research Scientist 4 | 2 | $181,012 | at the minimum | ||
| Sales Operations Lead (5) | 2 | $156,427 | at the minimum | ||
| Sr. AR Designer, Concept (5) | 2 | $152,734 | at the minimum | ||
| Sr. AR Designer, VFX (5) | 2 | $152,734 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Manager, Law Enforcement Operations (7) | 2 | $200,741 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Manager, Sales Operations (7) | 2 | $228,665 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Manager, Software Engineer (7) | 2 | $265,720 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Research Scientist (5) | 2 | $178,433 | at the minimum | ||
| Software Engineer (6) | 2 | $187,522 | at the minimum | +13% since 2023 | |
| Staff Product Manager (6) | 2 | $156,135 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Software Engineer (6) | 2 | $224,536 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Solutions Engineer (6) | 2 | $264,514 | at the minimum | ||
| Account Manager III | 1 | $82,139 | at the minimum | ||
| Applications Engineer IV | 1 | $155,418 | at the minimum | ||
| Applications Engineer (5) | 1 | $204,145 | at the minimum | ||
| AR Designer, Studio (4) | 1 | $152,734 | at the minimum | ||
| AR Designer, VFX (3) | 1 | $127,150 | at the minimum | ||
| AR Engineer (3) | 1 | $129,667 | at the minimum | ||
| AR Engineer (5) | 1 | $184,558 | at the minimum | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 92 job titles.
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 | 105 | $193,550 |
| Santa Monica, CA | 86 | $157,123 |
| Bellevue, WA | 56 | $180,710 |
| New York, NY | 40 | $160,805 |
| Seattle, WA | 32 | $180,710 |
| San Francisco, CA | 18 | $187,574 |
| San Diego, CA | 4 | $157,581 |
| Austin, TX | 1 | $163,550 |
| Henderson, NV | 1 | n/a |
| Seattle, CA | 1 | $202,346 |
| Vancouver, WA | 1 | n/a |
| Washington, DC | 1 | $193,502 |
By visa type: 337 H-1B, 7 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Chile), 1 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 266 certified, 72 certified and later withdrawn, 6 withdrawn before a decision, 2 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 Snap 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.
- 1 filing is 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.