Western Digital Technologies, Inc. H-1B wage filings
San Jose, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. filed 254 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 3,038 positions. The median wage it offered was $148,310, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering (39 filings, median $153,600).
- Filings
- 254
- Positions covered
- 3,038
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 65
- Worksite cities
- 35
- Filings since FY2020
- 2,841
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +11%
Offered wage since 2020
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 11%, from $134,597 in fiscal 2020 to $150,051 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 580 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.
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 177 | $150,051 | +9.9% | $138,258 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 235 | $136,552 | +3.7% | $128,888 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 541 | $131,737 | +4.2% | $126,984 | +1.1% |
| 2023 | 448 | $126,464 | −4.2% | $115,586 | +9.6% |
| 2022 | 580 | $132,000 | +9.5% | $122,408 | +7.0% |
| 2021 | 525 | $120,578 | −10.4% | $113,844 | +7.6% |
| 2020 | 335 | $134,597 | n/a | $121,950 | +2.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering | 39 | $153,600 | at the minimum | +40% since 2020 | |
| Staff Engineer, Development Engineering | 16 | $149,772 | +2.2% | +19% since 2024 | |
| Principal Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering | 12 | $157,019 | +2.8% | +20% since 2020 | |
| Principal Engineer, Development Engineering | 11 | $148,310 | at the minimum | +13% since 2025 | |
| Senior Engineer, Development Engineering | 10 | $106,600 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Engineer, Industrial Engineering | 8 | $100,488 | at the minimum | +12% since 2020 | |
| Analyst 4, Business Applications | 6 | $169,328 | at the minimum | +21% since 2021 | |
| Principal Engineer, R&D Engineering | 6 | $164,278 | at the minimum | +1% since 2020 | |
| Senior Engineer, Electronic Design Engineering | 6 | $111,800 | at the minimum | +16% since 2021 | |
| Staff Engineer, Firmware Engineering | 6 | $129,667 | +7.9% | +3% since 2020 | |
| Staff Engineer, R&D Engineering | 6 | $144,664 | at the minimum | +15% since 2020 | |
| Principal Engineer, Equipment Engineering | 5 | $163,030 | +16.2% | ||
| Senior Manager, Information Technology | 5 | $201,109 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Finance | 4 | $142,074 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Engineer, Data Engineering | 4 | $153,362 | +1.5% | ||
| Scientist 3, Data Science | 4 | $159,994 | at the minimum | +10% since 2023 | |
| Senior Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering | 4 | $111,341 | +4.2% | +22% since 2022 | |
| Senior Engineer, Software Development Engineering (Apps) | 4 | $115,822 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineering | 4 | $110,916 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Engineer, Test Engineering | 4 | $108,909 | at the minimum | ||
| Analyst 5, Data Analytics | 3 | $176,109 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager 2, Program Management | 3 | $117,645 | at the minimum | ||
| Professional 2, Information Technology | 3 | $119,825 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Engineer, Equipment Engineering | 3 | $115,016 | +10.2% | ||
| Sr Engineer Test Engineering | 3 | $92,144 | +29.8% | +6% since 2021 | |
| Staff Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineering | 3 | $154,649 | at the minimum | ||
| Analyst 3, Data Analytics | 2 | $110,900 | +16.8% | ||
| Analyst 4, Data Analytics | 2 | $151,070 | +0.3% | ||
| Developer 2, Programming | 2 | $117,184 | +5.0% | ||
| Developer 5, Programming | 2 | $154,440 | at the minimum | ||
| Director, Data Analytics Engineering | 2 | $183,500 | +15.5% | ||
| Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering | 2 | $95,139 | +2.8% | ||
| Manager 3, Commodity | 2 | $116,800 | +24.4% | ||
| Manager 3, Program Management Engineering | 2 | $124,700 | +3.8% | ||
| Manager 4, Program Management Engineering | 2 | $170,248 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager 5, Strategic Sourcing | 2 | $187,000 | +1.8% | ||
| Principal Engineer, Electronic Design Engineering | 2 | $139,650 | +3.8% | +11% since 2020 | |
| Principal Engineer, Firmware Engineering | 2 | $150,470 | at the minimum | +5% since 2021 | |
| Principal Engineer, Software Development Engineering (Embedd | 2 | $165,117 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal Engineer, Test Engineering | 2 | $152,900 | +13.7% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 65 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 | 123 | $148,310 |
| Fremont, CA | 38 | $153,600 |
| Irvine, CA | 30 | $129,667 |
| Colorado Springs, CO | 10 | $99,861 |
| Roseville, CA | 7 | $136,000 |
| Milpitas, CA | 6 | $154,742 |
| Santa Clara, CA | 6 | $159,899 |
| Livermore, CA | 3 | $163,030 |
| Campbell, CA | 2 | $154,649 |
| Cupertino, CA | 2 | $160,566 |
| Fairfax, CA | 2 | $187,000 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 2 | $150,228 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 35 worksite cities.
By visa type: 253 H-1B, 1 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 254 certified.
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 Western Digital Technologies, 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.
- 1 filing is 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.