Tesla, Inc. H-1B wage filings
Austin, TX. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Tesla, Inc. filed 3,287 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 3,743 positions. The median wage it offered was $151,320, 19.3% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Manufacturing Engineer (136 filings, median $135,210).
- Filings
- 3,287
- Positions covered
- 3,743
- Certified
- 97.7%
- Job titles
- 468
- Worksite cities
- 68
- Filings since FY2020
- 12,470
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +18%
Offered wage since 2020
Tesla, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 18%, from $127,100 in fiscal 2020 to $150,044 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 20.7% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 2,745 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.
Tesla, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 2,931 | $150,044 | −0.3% | $117,458 | +20.7% |
| 2025 | 2,745 | $150,466 | +3.3% | $131,934 | +13.5% |
| 2024 | 2,189 | $145,600 | +2.2% | $131,152 | +10.9% |
| 2023 | 1,357 | $142,500 | +5.6% | $123,365 | +13.9% |
| 2022 | 1,289 | $135,000 | +3.5% | $121,638 | +13.5% |
| 2021 | 1,165 | $130,440 | +2.6% | $118,015 | +10.9% |
| 2020 | 794 | $127,100 | n/a | $115,670 | +9.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing Engineer | 136 | $135,210 | +32.5% | +40% since 2020 | |
| Mechanical Design Engineer | 120 | $144,973 | +20.0% | +38% since 2020 | |
| Software Development Engineer | 115 | $176,430 | +12.3% | +48% since 2020 | |
| Manufacturing Equipment Engineer | 105 | $122,977 | +24.2% | +23% since 2020 | |
| Process Engineer | 103 | $110,000 | +14.3% | +21% since 2020 | |
| Technical Program Manager | 81 | $151,281 | +35.5% | +38% since 2020 | |
| Senior Software Development Engineer | 76 | $189,460 | +9.4% | +34% since 2020 | |
| Sourcing Engineer | 75 | $137,850 | +51.4% | +20% since 2022 | |
| Manufacturing Controls Dev Engineer | 71 | $140,241 | +30.9% | +34% since 2021 | |
| QA Engineer | 61 | $125,000 | +20.7% | +13% since 2023 | |
| Test Engineer | 50 | $140,000 | +23.6% | +30% since 2020 | |
| Senior Manufacturing Engineer | 42 | $143,500 | +22.9% | +24% since 2020 | |
| Technical Construction Project Manager | 42 | $141,336 | +25.6% | ||
| Sr Mechanical Design Engineer | 40 | $154,103 | +7.1% | +31% since 2020 | |
| Software Development Engineer - Eng | 40 | $187,000 | +20.8% | +25% since 2024 | |
| Manufacturing Controls Engineer | 39 | $139,260 | +28.2% | +37% since 2020 | |
| Data Engineer | 38 | $155,000 | +24.1% | +19% since 2022 | |
| Senior Process Engineer | 37 | $123,041 | +11.2% | +2% since 2020 | |
| Staff Software Development Engineer | 35 | $217,482 | +11.9% | +24% since 2020 | |
| Supplier Industrialization Engineer | 33 | $142,806 | +24.5% | +16% since 2024 | |
| Autopilot Software Engineer | 32 | $275,000 | +23.1% | +84% since 2024 | |
| Senior Technical Program Manager | 32 | $162,359 | +17.1% | +23% since 2020 | |
| Industrial Engineer | 29 | $108,472 | +1.5% | +12% since 2020 | |
| Systems Design/Architecture Engineer | 29 | $162,792 | +21.5% | ||
| Sr Software Development Engineer - Eng | 27 | $190,006 | +13.0% | +9% since 2024 | |
| Staff Manufacturing Engineer | 27 | $173,000 | +15.4% | +27% since 2020 | |
| Electronic Design Engineer | 26 | $158,427 | +15.4% | +32% since 2022 | |
| Sr Sourcing Engineer | 25 | $150,000 | +14.7% | +15% since 2022 | |
| Associate Process Engineer | 24 | $91,157 | +11.3% | +9% since 2022 | |
| Reliability Engineer | 24 | $148,219 | +22.1% | ||
| Sr Manufacturing Controls Dev Engineer | 24 | $140,000 | +14.8% | +30% since 2020 | |
| Staff Mechanical Design Engineer | 24 | $184,424 | +13.6% | +25% since 2020 | |
| Autopilot Machine Learning Engineer | 23 | $250,000 | +27.2% | +41% since 2025 | |
| Associate Manufacturing Equipment Engineer | 22 | $95,000 | +14.7% | +27% since 2020 | |
| Senior Data Engineer | 21 | $160,675 | +11.3% | +11% since 2020 | |
| Supply Chain Manager | 21 | $150,426 | at the minimum | +10% since 2025 | |
| AI Hardware Engineer | 20 | $278,075 | +60.3% | ||
| Staff Software Development Engineer - Eng | 20 | $221,000 | +6.9% | +9% since 2024 | |
| Technical Project Manager | 20 | $125,950 | +27.9% | +17% since 2021 | |
| Sr Software Product Mgr | 19 | $178,000 | +13.5% | +15% since 2021 | |
Showing the 40 most-filed of 468 job titles.
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Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Fremont, CA | 969 | $163,000 |
| Palo Alto, CA | 879 | $182,000 |
| Austin, TX | 583 | $137,715 |
| Sparks, NV | 435 | $114,069 |
| Lathrop, CA | 100 | $126,751 |
| Buffalo, NY | 59 | $106,949 |
| Brookshire, TX | 58 | $130,000 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 21 | $147,000 |
| Reno, NV | 18 | $108,350 |
| Hawthorne, CA | 17 | $174,745 |
| Bellevue, WA | 15 | $189,460 |
| San Jose, CA | 14 | $167,500 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 68 worksite cities.
By visa type: 3,219 H-1B, 52 E-3 (Australia), 12 H-1B1 (Singapore), 4 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 2,916 certified, 296 certified and later withdrawn, 71 withdrawn before a decision, 4 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 Tesla, 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.
- 2 filings are 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.