Tencent America LLC H-1B wage filings
Palo Alto, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Tencent America LLC filed 60 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 72 positions. The median wage it offered was $220,000, 9.4% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Hunyuan AIGC Algorithm Researcher (World Model Foundation Di (14 filings, median $220,000).
- Filings
- 60
- Positions covered
- 72
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 31
- Worksite cities
- 5
- Filings since FY2020
- 348
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +42%
Offered wage since 2020
Tencent America LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 42%, from $155,004 in fiscal 2020 to $220,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 9.4% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2023, with 61 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.
Tencent America LLC by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 58 | $220,000 | +32.9% | $199,836 | +9.4% |
| 2025 | 33 | $165,600 | +0.4% | $159,182 | +11.3% |
| 2024 | 52 | $165,000 | −1.7% | $142,210 | +15.8% |
| 2023 | 61 | $167,932 | −6.7% | $143,874 | +12.6% |
| 2022 | 47 | $180,000 | +13.3% | $157,477 | +12.0% |
| 2021 | 57 | $158,880 | +2.5% | $142,667 | +13.8% |
| 2020 | 40 | $155,004 | n/a | $141,586 | +15.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunyuan AIGC Algorithm Researcher (World Model Foundation Di | 14 | $220,000 | +9.4% | ||
| Hunyuan Multimodal Algorithm Researcher (Omni-Modal) | 12 | $220,000 | +9.4% | ||
| Senior Researcher | 3 | $219,830 | +16.8% | +11% since 2020 | |
| Senior Technical Artist | 3 | $168,024 | +10.0% | ||
| Senior 2D Concept Artist | 2 | $140,000 | +1.5% | ||
| Data Engineer | 1 | $131,532 | +6.5% | ||
| Game Publishing Manager | 1 | $150,000 | +2.4% | ||
| Hunyuan Multimodal Algorithm Researcher (Omni-Modal)&8203;&8 | 1 | $220,000 | +9.4% | ||
| Lead Strategist | 1 | $234,552 | +18.2% | ||
| Manager, NA Technology Service Team | 1 | $199,000 | +20.8% | ||
| Monetization Producer | 1 | $133,768 | +18.1% | ||
| Operation and Development Engineer | 1 | $146,976 | +13.3% | ||
| Operations Specialist | 1 | $82,344 | +33.2% | ||
| Principal Project Manager | 1 | $222,780 | +10.9% | ||
| Principal Software Engineer, Game Engine | 1 | $314,412 | +48.2% | ||
| Project Manager | 1 | $95,000 | +17.0% | ||
| Research Scientist - Speech & Audio Understanding (Speech Ge | 1 | $192,000 | +35.4% | ||
| Researcher- Agent | 1 | $234,000 | +65.0% | ||
| Senior Data Engineer | 1 | $146,976 | +19.0% | ||
| Senior Data Scientist | 1 | $186,204 | +17.3% | ||
| Senior Engineer | 1 | $227,144 | +0.4% | ||
| Senior Media Services Product Architect | 1 | $211,284 | +6.3% | ||
| Sr. Operation and Development Engineer | 1 | $175,140 | +17.4% | ||
| Senior Project Manager | 1 | $222,780 | +10.9% | ||
| Senior Researcher: Artificial General Intelligence (Audio, S | 1 | $214,800 | +0.3% | ||
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | 1 | $182,544 | +16.2% | ||
| Senior Software Development Engineer | 1 | $180,944 | +11.3% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 1 | $204,000 | +8.7% | ||
| Senior Technical Designer | 1 | $135,000 | +4.1% | ||
| Site Reliability Engineer | 1 | $149,424 | at the minimum | ||
| Vehicle Designer III | 1 | $129,000 | +9.0% | ||
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 | 28 | $220,000 |
| Bellevue, WA | 17 | $220,000 |
| Irvine, CA | 7 | $168,024 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 6 | $166,272 |
| Playa Vista, CA | 2 | $140,672 |
By visa type: 60 H-1B. By outcome: 58 certified, 2 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 Tencent America LLC 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.