TikTok Inc. H-1B wage filings
Culver City, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
TikTok Inc. filed 560 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 1,103 positions. The median wage it offered was $224,000, 24.6% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineer (62 filings, median $187,871).
- Filings
- 560
- Positions covered
- 1,103
- Certified
- 99.6%
- Job titles
- 253
- Worksite cities
- 9
- Filings since FY2020
- 2,926
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +37%
Offered wage since 2020
TikTok Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 37%, from $176,000 in fiscal 2020 to $240,666 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 32.1% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 986 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.
TikTok Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 394 | $240,666 | +20.5% | $165,422 | +32.1% |
| 2025 | 986 | $199,767 | −0.1% | $156,156 | +20.8% |
| 2024 | 619 | $200,000 | −2.4% | $142,501 | +24.6% |
| 2023 | 389 | $205,000 | +7.9% | $145,694 | +28.3% |
| 2022 | 330 | $190,000 | +5.6% | $157,477 | +22.2% |
| 2021 | 136 | $180,000 | +2.3% | $162,510 | +14.1% |
| 2020 | 72 | $176,000 | n/a | $154,669 | +19.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 62 | $187,871 | +10.6% | +31% since 2020 | |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 37 | $210,000 | +16.6% | −5% since 2022 | |
| Product Manager | 22 | $152,222 | at the minimum | +1% since 2024 | |
| Data Scientist | 20 | $223,059 | +4.4% | +85% since 2020 | |
| Data Engineer | 19 | $153,400 | at the minimum | +5% since 2022 | |
| Machine Learning Scientist | 19 | $221,000 | +45.7% | −4% since 2023 | |
| Research Scientist | 12 | $211,200 | +48.0% | +20% since 2025 | |
| Data Engineer, E-Commerce | 10 | $201,750 | +41.3% | −3% since 2023 | |
| Product Manager - Senior | 10 | $350,254 | +49.4% | ||
| Software Development Engineer in Test | 8 | $149,896 | +6.2% | −38% since 2021 | |
| Software Engineer Senior | 8 | $264,514 | +5.1% | ||
| Software Engineer, Recommendation Infrastructure | 7 | $280,000 | +28.2% | +27% since 2024 | |
| Backend Software Engineer | 6 | $223,360 | +11.6% | +30% since 2020 | |
| Data Engineer - Data Platform | 6 | $237,400 | +54.9% | +38% since 2022 | |
| Engineering Manager | 6 | $345,006 | +19.4% | ||
| Software Engineer - Recommendation Developer Infrastructure | 5 | $228,000 | +6.5% | +20% since 2024 | |
| Machine Learning Engineer - Senior | 4 | $331,600 | +50.5% | ||
| Machine Learning Manager | 4 | $366,156 | +29.3% | ||
| Security Engineer - Application/Product Security | 4 | $225,000 | +51.3% | ||
| Senior Data Scientist | 4 | $274,550 | +30.6% | ||
| Software Engineer - E-commerce Recommendation Infrastructure | 4 | $250,362 | +24.8% | ||
| Tech Lead Manager | 4 | $375,391 | +10.6% | ||
| Frontend Software Engineer | 3 | $191,150 | +17.6% | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok Recommendation | 3 | $270,000 | +50.6% | ||
| Product Manager - Logistics | 3 | $336,000 | +224.5% | ||
| Product Team Leader | 3 | $540,000 | +38.8% | ||
| Program Manager | 3 | $147,763 | +55.7% | ||
| Senior Backend Software Engineer | 3 | $237,000 | +13.7% | ||
| Software Development Engineer in Test - Senior | 3 | $240,666 | +34.3% | ||
| Software Engineer - Data Architecture | 3 | $119,704 | at the minimum | ||
| TikTok Shop - Special Projects Manager | 3 | $120,000 | +24.4% | ||
| Backend Software Engineer, Risk & Response - TnS | 2 | $195,616 | +37.2% | ||
| Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Privacy | 2 | $185,000 | +2.4% | ||
| Backend Software Engineer - Trust and Safety | 2 | $291,320 | +40.3% | ||
| Category Manager | 2 | $134,000 | +41.5% | ||
| Creator Network Growth Manager - TikTok LIVE | 2 | $144,000 | +76.0% | ||
| Data Engineer, Global Live | 2 | $259,000 | +35.3% | ||
| Data Scientist Graduate (TikTok Shop - Data Science) | 2 | $148,960 | +34.9% | ||
| Engineer | 2 | $166,800 | +26.7% | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer - Tech Lead | 2 | $369,391 | +15.9% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 253 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | 339 | $254,000 |
| Bellevue, WA | 144 | $202,320 |
| Culver City, CA | 55 | $142,000 |
| New York, NY | 15 | $147,763 |
| Fontana, CA | 3 | $185,000 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 1 | $185,000 |
| Middlesex, NJ | 1 | $165,000 |
| San Francisco, CA | 1 | $125,000 |
| Washington, DC | 1 | $280,000 |
By visa type: 549 H-1B, 6 H-1B1 (Singapore), 5 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 542 certified, 16 certified and later withdrawn, 2 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 TikTok 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.
- On 98.0% of its filings, TikTok Inc. declared itself an H-1B-dependent employer: one where H-1B workers make up a large share of staff, which adds hiring obligations.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.