Sony Corporation of America H-1B wage filings

New York, NY. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Sony Corporation of America filed 8 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $172,202, 16.8% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
8
Positions covered
8
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
7
Worksite cities
5
Filings since FY2020
73
Median offer change since FY2020
+49%

Offered wage since 2020

Sony Corporation of America's median H-1B wage offer rose 49%, from $115,190 in fiscal 2020 to $172,202 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 16.8% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 17 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k$180k$200k$115k$116k$118k$130k$144k$153k$172k1720208202172022920238202416202582026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

Sony Corporation of America by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)8$172,202+12.4%$148,044+16.8%
202516$153,250+6.3%$140,619+12.3%
20248$144,215+10.9%$110,074+11.3%
20239$130,000+10.2%$116,210at the minimum
20227$117,915+1.5%$117,915at the minimum
20218$116,137+0.8%$116,137at the minimum
202017$115,190n/a$115,190at the minimum

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Senior Research Scientist, Next Gen. AI/ML Vision & Language2$187,700+48.8%
Associate Staff Research Engineer1$155,000+10.7%
Associate Staff Research Engineer, Computer Graphics1$151,944at the minimum
Director, End User Productivity1$185,000+12.3%
Principal Developer SOAR Automation1$180,000+21.4%
Senior Research Engineer1$164,403at the minimum
Sr Research Engineer, AI/ML for Computer Graphics & Robotics1$150,000+55.2%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Culver City, CA2$168,472
San Mateo, CA2$157,202
Weehawken, NJ2$187,700
Reston, VA1$180,000
San Jose, CA1$155,000

By visa type: 8 H-1B. By outcome: 6 certified, 2 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Oct to Dec 20252
Jan to Mar 20261
Apr to Jun 20265

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

Level I, entry38%
Level II, qualified25%
Level III, experienced38%
Level IV, fully competent0%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.

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