Workday, Inc. H-1B wage filings
Pleasanton, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Workday, Inc. filed 320 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $161,637, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior Software Development Engineer (50 filings, median $172,800).
- Filings
- 320
- Positions covered
- 310
- Certified
- 96.9%
- Job titles
- 89
- Worksite cities
- 28
- Filings since FY2020
- 2,282
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +28%
Offered wage since 2020
Workday, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 28%, from $126,200 in fiscal 2020 to $161,637 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 506 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.
Workday, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 267 | $161,637 | +3.9% | $152,131 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 332 | $155,605 | +5.6% | $155,605 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 389 | $147,368 | +1.9% | $142,002 | +8.6% |
| 2023 | 264 | $144,650 | +9.4% | $132,870 | +16.9% |
| 2022 | 506 | $132,200 | −0.2% | $121,763 | +13.7% |
| 2021 | 293 | $132,500 | +5.0% | $120,931 | +13.8% |
| 2020 | 231 | $126,200 | n/a | $120,931 | +1.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Development Engineer | 50 | $172,800 | +5.2% | +26% since 2020 | |
| Software Development Engineer | 50 | $149,240 | at the minimum | +23% since 2020 | |
| Sr Associate Software Development Engineer | 15 | $109,283 | at the minimum | −8% since 2024 | |
| Principal Software Development Engineer | 14 | $212,202 | at the minimum | +13% since 2024 | |
| Sr Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) | 12 | $170,050 | +9.1% | +0% since 2024 | |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | 9 | $182,500 | +21.7% | ||
| Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering | 9 | $217,776 | at the minimum | +8% since 2025 | |
| GTM Associate II | 7 | $74,000 | +19.7% | ||
| Manager, Software Development Engineering | 7 | $178,711 | +6.9% | +9% since 2020 | |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer | 7 | $228,000 | +34.6% | ||
| Senior Cybersecurity Engineer | 6 | $156,200 | +27.0% | ||
| Sr Information Systems Software Application Engineer | 6 | $199,761 | at the minimum | +36% since 2024 | |
| Cybersecurity Engineer | 5 | $134,410 | at the minimum | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer | 5 | $155,261 | +14.0% | ||
| Sr Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | 5 | $153,600 | at the minimum | ||
| Engagement Manager | 4 | $127,850 | +25.1% | ||
| Principal, Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) | 4 | $212,250 | +33.8% | ||
| Sr Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) | 4 | $161,637 | at the minimum | ||
| GTM Manager IIII | 3 | $122,824 | at the minimum | ||
| (GW) Machine Learning Engineer | 3 | $147,200 | +19.3% | ||
| Product Manager | 3 | $148,242 | at the minimum | +1% since 2024 | |
| Senior Associate Data Engineer | 3 | $133,952 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Business Systems Analyst | 3 | $141,950 | +4.3% | ||
| Senior GTM Manager I | 3 | $150,956 | at the minimum | ||
| Sr Principal, Software Development Engineer | 3 | $249,457 | +34.5% | ||
| Senior Software Development Engineer in Test | 3 | $156,800 | +20.8% | ||
| Data Scientist | 2 | $136,967 | +1.7% | ||
| Infrastructure Engineer | 2 | $171,956 | at the minimum | ||
| Machine Learning Engineer - DevOps | 2 | $187,574 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal, Information Systems Software Application Engineer | 2 | $195,106 | +4.7% | ||
| Product Acceleration and Optimization Advisor | 2 | $126,000 | +44.1% | ||
| Sr Associate Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) | 2 | $106,400 | +29.2% | ||
| Senior Automation Engineer | 2 | $151,807 | +6.2% | ||
| Senior Cloud Engineer | 2 | $183,556 | +2.6% | ||
| Senior Data Engineer | 2 | $172,031 | +0.9% | ||
| Senior Engagement Manager | 2 | $146,645 | +3.4% | ||
| Senior Quality Assurance Engineer | 2 | $140,707 | +26.1% | ||
| Senior Software Application Engineer | 2 | $206,447 | at the minimum | +21% since 2020 | |
| Software Dev Engineer III | 2 | $161,637 | at the minimum | ||
| Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) | 2 | $140,019 | +6.0% | −11% since 2024 | |
Showing the 40 most-filed of 89 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Pleasanton, CA | 143 | $187,574 |
| Atlanta, GA | 52 | $130,707 |
| Boulder, CO | 33 | $146,629 |
| New York, NY | 30 | $117,500 |
| Seattle, WA | 14 | $212,202 |
| Santa Clara, CA | 7 | $188,956 |
| Beaverton, OR | 5 | $128,800 |
| Boston, MA | 5 | $149,500 |
| Mclean, VA | 5 | $156,200 |
| Frisco, TX | 3 | $153,600 |
| Mason, OH | 3 | $112,500 |
| Reston, VA | 3 | $156,200 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 28 worksite cities.
By visa type: 318 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 308 certified, 2 certified and later withdrawn, 9 withdrawn before a decision, 1 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 Workday, 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.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.