Design Engineer H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Mechanical Engineers (SOC 17-2141).

Employers filed 450 wage applications for Design Engineer jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 211 employers. The median offered wage was $92,678, 3.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. L&T Technology Services Limited filed the most (61, median $83,000).

Filings: 450
Positions covered: 428
Employers: 211
Median offered: $92,678
Median prevailing wage: $85,499
Filings since FY2020: 4,114
Median offer change since FY2020: +28%

Design Engineer, all employers450 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$92,678Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$83,000 to $106,850Where the middle half of the filings fall

$85,499Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Design Engineer jobs rose 28%, from $72,644 in fiscal 2020 to $93,009 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 2.8% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2020, with 852 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.

Design Engineer by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	352	$93,009	+4.0%	$85,717	+2.8%
2025	583	$89,430	+3.9%	$84,521	+3.9%
2024	527	$86,100	+3.7%	$78,021	+5.4%
2023	464	$83,000	+3.5%	$76,648	+6.3%
2022	681	$80,163	+0.7%	$74,256	+2.8%
2021	655	$79,644	+9.6%	$72,426	+2.6%
2020	852	$72,644	n/a	$68,162	+3.0%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
L&T Technology Services Limited	61	$83,000	+22.1%
TSMC Technology, Inc.	25	$127,234	+10.3%
Tata Consultancy Services Limited	10	$89,690	at the minimum
TOOGANN Technologies, LLC	10	$97,787	+4.6%
Tata Technologies, Inc.	9	$74,508	+9.4%
Caterpillar Inc.	9	$102,128	at the minimum
Arm, Inc.	8	$114,577	at the minimum
Tech Mahindra (Americas) Inc.	8	$90,301	at the minimum
Hutchison Engineering, Inc.	7	$83,408	+15.4%
Axiscades Inc	7	$95,326	+6.5%
NXP USA, Inc.	6	$133,863	+29.5%
Fire2Fission LLC	5	$88,000	+5.4%
Satyam Venture Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd.	5	$80,000	+2.8%
Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Inc.	5	$87,000	+1.4%
LERA Consulting Structural Engineers, RLLP	5	$88,000	+7.9%
Intellectt Inc	4	$92,560	+2.3%
Applied Materials, Inc	4	$185,249	+12.7%
Taal Technologies Inc	4	$88,172	+14.3%
Bolton & Menk, Inc.	3	$70,595	at the minimum
Wilson Engineers, LLC.	3	$92,421	+10.2%
Priamba Soft LLC	3	$83,200	+1.9%
Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company	3	$104,000	+6.2%
Detroit Engineered Products, Inc.	3	$93,642	at the minimum
Consolidated Metco, Inc.	3	$102,315	+9.7%
Indus USA Inc	3	$93,642	at the minimum

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 211. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Design Engineer jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
San Jose, CA	26	$127,234	+10.3%
Raymond, OH	21	$91,000	+15.6%
Austin, TX	20	$114,754	at the minimum
Chillicothe, IL	12	$95,680	+3.8%
Irvine, CA	12	$98,987	+18.1%
Auburn Hills, MI	9	$79,040	+3.0%
Houston, TX	9	$104,000	+2.0%
San Francisco, CA	9	$126,131	+0.1%
Santa Clara, CA	8	$180,000	+8.4%
Troy, MI	8	$93,642	at the minimum
New York, NY	6	$94,066	+7.9%
Novi, MI	6	$77,792	at the minimum
Columbus, IN	5	$106,891	at the minimum
Cumming, GA	5	$80,340	+6.9%
Denver, CO	5	$88,000	+5.4%
Norfolk, VA	5	$80,930	+0.1%
Seattle, WA	5	$87,000	+1.4%
Blue Ash, OH	4	$89,690	at the minimum
Carbondale, IL	4	$89,784	+19.4%
Plymouth, MI	4	$90,811	+4.9%
Pontiac, IL	4	$84,760	+18.1%
Chandler, AZ	3	$114,234	at the minimum
Chicago, IL	3	$90,106	+11.3%
Dearborn, MI	3	$95,000	+23.8%
Detroit, MI	3	$70,000	+4.7%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry28%

Level II, qualified60%

Level III, experienced10%

Level IV, fully competent3%

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 employers 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.
6 filings are for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year).

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