Space Exploration Technologies Corp. H-1B wage filings
Brownsville, TX. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Also filed as Space Exploration Technologies.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. filed 39 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $140,000, 13.5% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior ASIC Design Engineer (7 filings, median $160,000).
- Filings
- 39
- Positions covered
- 39
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 26
- Worksite cities
- 9
- Filings since FY2020
- 78
- Median offer change since FY2024
- +3%
Offered wage since 2020
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 3%, from $135,000 in fiscal 2024 to $138,486 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 11.0% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 21 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.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 34 | $138,486 | −1.1% | $118,092 | +11.0% |
| 2025 | 21 | $140,000 | +3.7% | $118,706 | +10.5% |
| 2024 | 17 | $135,000 | n/a | $128,149 | +10.7% |
| 2023 | 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2022 | 3 | $89,856 | n/a | $89,856 | at the minimum |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior ASIC Design Engineer | 7 | $160,000 | +13.5% | |
| ASIC Design Engineer | 5 | $140,000 | +26.5% | |
| Software Engineer | 3 | $136,971 | at the minimum | |
| Bulk Acoustic Wave Process Design Kit (BAW PDK) Engineer | 2 | $111,821 | +4.3% | |
| Akoustis Quality Engineer | 1 | $119,000 | +31.4% | |
| Antenna Engineer | 1 | $145,000 | +10.6% | |
| BAW/SAW Filter Product Manager & Sales Engineering | 1 | $166,899 | at the minimum | |
| Bulk Acoustic Wage Process Design Kit (BAW PDK) Engineer | 1 | $110,656 | at the minimum | |
| Electrical Engineer II | 1 | $101,774 | +30.9% | |
| Lead Design Engineer | 1 | $161,179 | at the minimum | |
| Lead Engineer, Starlink Engineering | 1 | $135,000 | +13.8% | |
| PCB Designer II | 1 | $115,752 | at the minimum | |
| Principal Materials Engineer | 1 | $180,000 | +11.5% | |
| Propulsion Engineer | 1 | $100,000 | +5.6% | |
| RFIC Engineer | 1 | $125,000 | +37.9% | |
| Senior Build Engineer | 1 | $130,000 | +23.0% | |
| Senior Communications Integration Engineer | 1 | $160,000 | +13.6% | |
| Senior FPGA/ASIC Verification Engineer | 1 | $173,930 | at the minimum | |
| Sr. Network Product Engineer | 1 | $175,000 | +19.2% | |
| Senior RF Software Engineer | 1 | $160,000 | +14.0% | |
| Senior Tax Analyst | 1 | $125,000 | +5.5% | |
| Sr. Tooling Designer | 1 | $141,586 | at the minimum | |
| Starlink Engineer | 1 | $125,000 | +80.1% | |
| Starlink Process Engineer | 1 | $100,000 | +44.1% | |
| Starship Electronics Engineer | 1 | $105,000 | +2.3% | |
| Thermal Engineer | 1 | $110,000 | +51.7% | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Bastrop, TX | 19 | $140,000 |
| Redmond, WA | 7 | $160,000 |
| Hawthorne, CA | 3 | $105,000 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 3 | $151,745 |
| Brownsville, TX | 2 | $120,000 |
| Woodinville, WA | 2 | $129,736 |
| Boston, MA | 1 | $101,774 |
| Huntersville, NC | 1 | $111,821 |
| Irvine, CA | 1 | $173,930 |
By visa type: 39 H-1B. By outcome: 32 certified, 7 certified and later withdrawn.
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 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 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.