Waymo LLC H-1B wage filings
Mountain View, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Waymo LLC filed 335 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $205,000, 10.6% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineer (179 filings, median $205,000).
- Filings
- 335
- Positions covered
- 331
- Certified
- 98.8%
- Job titles
- 90
- Worksite cities
- 11
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,975
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +24%
Offered wage since 2020
Waymo LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 24%, from $165,000 in fiscal 2020 to $205,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 10.5% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 336 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.
Waymo LLC by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 294 | $205,000 | +0.5% | $187,741 | +10.5% |
| 2025 | 244 | $204,000 | +7.9% | $172,931 | +19.9% |
| 2024 | 185 | $189,000 | +5.6% | $176,476 | +14.8% |
| 2023 | 282 | $179,000 | +2.3% | $141,378 | +26.6% |
| 2022 | 320 | $175,000 | +2.9% | $141,378 | +28.6% |
| 2021 | 314 | $170,000 | +3.0% | $125,653 | +29.9% |
| 2020 | 336 | $165,000 | n/a | $122,408 | +24.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 179 | $205,000 | +9.2% | +21% since 2022 | |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 12 | $240,000 | +9.9% | ||
| Research Scientist | 8 | $240,000 | +26.3% | +36% since 2022 | |
| Data Scientist | 7 | $205,000 | +16.6% | +17% since 2022 | |
| Product Manager | 7 | $245,000 | +29.0% | +7% since 2023 | |
| Researcher | 6 | $212,000 | +18.9% | ||
| Technical Program Manager | 6 | $234,000 | +33.5% | ||
| Systems Engineer | 5 | $235,000 | +44.0% | +22% since 2022 | |
| Systems Test Engineer | 5 | $192,000 | +44.4% | ||
| Product Data Scientist | 4 | $208,500 | +12.7% | ||
| Silicon Engineer | 3 | $240,000 | +40.8% | ||
| Technical Program Manager, Commercialization | 3 | $270,000 | +8.3% | ||
| Business Data Scientist | 2 | $208,500 | +23.2% | ||
| Business Intelligence Analyst | 2 | $191,000 | +10.0% | ||
| Engineering Operations Specialist 3 | 2 | $120,016 | +27.5% | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer, Mapping | 2 | $205,000 | +9.2% | ||
| Onboard Software Performance Engineer | 2 | $205,000 | +9.2% | ||
| Program Manager | 2 | $135,010 | +11.0% | ||
| Quality Engineer | 2 | $250,000 | +51.6% | ||
| Software Engineer, Planner | 2 | $200,000 | +6.5% | ||
| Software Engineer, Router | 2 | $1,100,000 | +531.5% | ||
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer | 2 | $227,500 | +13.3% | ||
| Strategic & Commercial Finance Analyst | 2 | $190,500 | +14.1% | ||
| Test Engineer | 2 | $214,500 | +15.1% | ||
| Analysis Infra SWE | 1 | $205,000 | +9.2% | ||
| Behavioral Systems Engineer | 1 | $150,000 | +39.4% | ||
| Business Systems Analyst | 1 | $186,000 | +3.1% | ||
| Electrical Engineer | 1 | $230,000 | +43.8% | ||
| Electrical Vehicle Systems Test Engineer | 1 | $185,000 | +42.9% | ||
| Engineering Operations Technical Specialist | 1 | $125,008 | +32.8% | ||
| Enterprise QMS Manager | 1 | $187,000 | +6.8% | ||
| Generalist Software Engineer | 1 | $205,000 | +9.2% | ||
| Generalist SWE | 1 | $205,000 | +58.4% | ||
| Group Product Manager | 1 | $337,000 | +27.4% | ||
| Hardware Engineer | 1 | $185,000 | +4.7% | ||
| Hardware - Proactive | 1 | $270,000 | +24.1% | ||
| Hardware Reliability Engineer | 1 | $172,000 | +7.6% | ||
| Hardware Test Development Engineer | 1 | $212,000 | +4.4% | ||
| Industrial Designer | 1 | $185,000 | +88.9% | ||
| Lead Senior Product Manager | 1 | $230,000 | +55.5% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 90 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain View, CA | 276 | $205,000 |
| San Francisco, CA | 28 | $217,500 |
| New York, NY | 18 | $205,000 |
| Kirkland, WA | 5 | $230,000 |
| Austin, TX | 2 | $188,000 |
| Alpharetta, GA | 1 | $170,000 |
| Bellevue, WA | 1 | $216,000 |
| Jersey City, NJ | 1 | $238,000 |
| Perrysburg, OH | 1 | $226,000 |
| Syracuse, NY | 1 | $256,000 |
| Washington, DC | 1 | $169,000 |
By visa type: 319 H-1B, 15 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 331 certified, 4 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 Waymo 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.