Starbucks Coffee Company H-1B wage filings
Seattle, WA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Starbucks Coffee Company filed 184 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $158,034, 16.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Engineer II - ST (15 filings, median $146,904).
- Filings
- 184
- Positions covered
- 183
- Certified
- 99.5%
- Job titles
- 82
- Worksite cities
- 7
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,029
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +22%
Offered wage since 2020
Starbucks Coffee Company's median H-1B wage offer rose 22%, from $135,979 in fiscal 2020 to $166,273 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 17.3% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 199 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.
Starbucks Coffee Company by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 115 | $166,273 | +5.7% | $140,167 | +17.3% |
| 2025 | 199 | $157,266 | −0.6% | $137,259 | +13.2% |
| 2024 | 118 | $158,250 | +6.3% | $137,717 | +13.2% |
| 2023 | 125 | $148,832 | −0.6% | $125,611 | +17.9% |
| 2022 | 172 | $149,753 | +7.0% | $119,350 | +23.9% |
| 2021 | 150 | $140,000 | +3.0% | $114,962 | +16.0% |
| 2020 | 150 | $135,979 | n/a | $113,381 | +18.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engineer II - ST | 15 | $146,904 | +23.3% | +7% since 2023 | |
| Engineer Sr - ST | 13 | $171,928 | +18.6% | +13% since 2022 | |
| Engineer Lead - ST | 12 | $188,844 | +16.1% | +10% since 2022 | |
| Application Developer - Senior | 10 | $160,454 | +5.2% | +20% since 2020 | |
| Systems Analyst Sr - ST | 10 | $143,475 | +4.1% | ||
| Application Developer Lead | 6 | $176,538 | +7.6% | +14% since 2020 | |
| Data Scientist | 5 | $141,281 | +45.7% | +2% since 2025 | |
| Application Developer II | 4 | $145,620 | +12.3% | ||
| Data Engineer Senior | 4 | $157,238 | +9.8% | ||
| Manager Technology Product & Solutions | 4 | $202,629 | +23.5% | ||
| Systems Analyst SR. | 4 | $137,250 | +12.2% | +4% since 2020 | |
| Technical Product Manager Senior - ST | 4 | $182,697 | +20.4% | +15% since 2022 | |
| Cybersecurity Engineer Senior | 3 | $171,458 | +10.1% | ||
| Engineer II | 3 | $137,655 | +22.4% | +6% since 2022 | |
| Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Sr | 3 | $142,103 | +15.8% | +7% since 2020 | |
| Systems Analyst II - ST | 3 | $123,000 | +9.9% | ||
| Technical Product Manager - ST | 3 | $166,036 | +36.0% | ||
| Associate Strategy Manager | 2 | $131,000 | +12.7% | ||
| Cybersecurity Engineer II | 2 | $146,960 | +21.6% | ||
| Data Analyst | 2 | $128,125 | +13.4% | ||
| Engineer II “ ST | 2 | $149,968 | +0.5% | ||
| Information Security Engineer | 2 | $132,722 | +14.8% | ||
| Manager, Engineer | 2 | $189,540 | +18.2% | ||
| Senior Data Scientist | 2 | $179,850 | +10.1% | ||
| Senior Systems Analyst | 2 | $147,050 | +9.6% | ||
| Senior Technical Product Manager | 2 | $191,500 | +18.2% | ||
| Systems Analyst II | 2 | $111,049 | +12.4% | ||
| Systems Analyst Lead - ST | 2 | $171,380 | +5.9% | ||
| Systems Engineer Senior | 2 | $160,615 | +11.5% | ||
| Technical Product Manager - Principal | 2 | $202,738 | +32.0% | ||
| Application Developer I | 1 | $126,000 | +24.0% | ||
| Architect Lead | 1 | $194,670 | +28.5% | ||
| Associate Product Manager - ST | 1 | $132,613 | +22.7% | ||
| Business Systems Analyst Lead | 1 | $130,000 | +0.1% | ||
| Cloud Engineer II | 1 | $130,000 | +77.0% | ||
| Cybersecurity Analyst Senior, Compliance | 1 | $177,000 | +33.8% | ||
| Data Engineer Lead | 1 | $190,838 | +13.5% | ||
| Data Scientist, Partner Analytics | 1 | $131,000 | +15.8% | ||
| Data Scientist - Retail Testing | 1 | $150,000 | +15.6% | ||
| Data Scientist Senior | 1 | $177,150 | +17.3% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 82 job titles.
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Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Seattle, WA | 178 | $157,190 |
| Aurora, IL | 1 | $159,691 |
| Columbus, IN | 1 | $161,792 |
| Coral Gables, FL | 1 | $162,030 |
| Glendale, AZ | 1 | $161,791 |
| Minden, NV | 1 | $145,000 |
| Scottsdale, AZ | 1 | $113,000 |
By visa type: 182 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 103 certified, 80 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 Starbucks Coffee Company 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.