Varian Medical Systems, Inc. H-1B wage filings

Palo Alto, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. filed 83 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $151,159, 15.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Executive Assistant to the CEO (4 filings, median $141,000).

Filings
83
Positions covered
81
Certified
97.6%
Job titles
57
Worksite cities
26
Filings since FY2020
460
Median offer change since FY2020
+26%

Offered wage since 2020

Varian Medical Systems, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 26%, from $120,663 in fiscal 2020 to $151,940 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 18.7% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 102 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k$180k$121k$125k$130k$135k$135k$143k$152k6420206220211022022472023552024612025692026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)69$151,940+6.4%$124,083+18.7%
202561$142,828+5.7%$121,051+13.3%
202455$135,072+0.1%$119,829+11.4%
202347$134,971+3.8%$115,814+13.9%
2022102$130,000+4.0%$111,364+11.8%
202162$125,000+3.6%$112,767+8.4%
202064$120,663n/a$108,784+8.2%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Executive Assistant to the CEO4$141,000+8.4%
Senior Enterprisewide Program Analyst4$147,554+7.1%
Senior Medical Physicist4$258,009+94.5%
Clinical Education Professional - Physicist3$168,800+217.6%
Data Analyst3$128,750+57.8%
Instructor Clinical Apps - Physicist3$151,940+185.9%
Sr Field Service Rep HW3$133,536+58.0%
Senior Validation Specialist3$165,900+11.7%
Clinical Trial Assistant2$70,000+9.0%
Electrical Engineer2$114,765+9.9%
Enterprisewide Program Analyst2$126,002+14.3%
Field Service Representative Hardware2$112,549+95.9%
Product Quality Engineer2$135,106+9.5%
Senior Manager, Enterprisewide2$186,950+26.5%
Software Engineer2$141,564+16.9%
Business Operations Analyst1$94,000+15.2%
Chief of Staff1$172,185+11.6%
Clinical Strategy Development Scientist1$118,976+48.2%
Data Architect1$120,000+2.7%
Director, Finance Programs1$192,138+41.8%
Director, Project/Program Management1$183,666+43.6%
Field Service Engineer1$96,158+7.7%
Finance Analyst / Professional1$160,000+5.2%
Hardware Verification and Reliability Test Engineer1$142,731+18.3%
Instructor Technical Training1$107,906+32.0%
Integration Architect1$162,072+6.3%
IT Business Analyst1$116,725+5.8%
Management Assistant to the CEO1$140,046+7.7%
Manager, Design Quality1$144,110+13.3%
Manager, Software Quality Assurance Engineer1$167,228+1.1%
Marketing Communications Specialist1$107,786+18.4%
Medical Physicist1$205,000+129.1%
Physicist, Radiation Safety Officer1$159,595+10.2%
Product Support Engineer1$92,768+3.4%
Product Verification Engineer1$127,533+1.5%
Regulatory Affairs Submissions Specialist1$122,439+41.2%
Senior Construction Project Manager1$120,816+1.1%
Senior DevOps Engineer1$180,000+15.2%
Senior Electrical Engineer1$157,379+8.6%
Senior Finance Data & Reporting Analyst1$175,000+67.7%

Showing the 40 most-filed of 57 job titles.

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Palo Alto, CA36$153,012
Atlanta, GA10$148,105
Las Vegas, NV7$151,940
Austin, TX5$144,110
Bettendorf, IA2$153,724
Seattle, WA2$70,000
Syosset, NY2$133,536
Bluffdale, UT1$162,072
Delray Beach, FL1$96,158
Frisco, TX1$201,534
Henderson, NV1$151,940
Houston, TX1$271,017

Showing the 12 busiest of 26 worksite cities.

By visa type: 80 H-1B, 3 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 81 certified, 2 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 202514
Oct to Dec 20254
Jan to Mar 202611
Apr to Jun 202654

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

Level I, entry17%
Level II, qualified25%
Level III, experienced19%
Level IV, fully competent38%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.

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