Engineer H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Software Developers (SOC 15-1252).

Employers filed 548 wage applications for Engineer jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 210 employers. The median offered wage was $112,950, 3.5% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. MediaTek USA Inc. filed the most (40, median $141,889).

Filings: 548
Positions covered: 2,879
Employers: 210
Median offered: $112,950
Median prevailing wage: $99,965
Filings since FY2020: 4,004
Median offer change since FY2020: +40%

Engineer, all employers548 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$112,950Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$93,915 to $133,941Where the middle half of the filings fall

$99,965Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Engineer jobs rose 40%, from $81,162 in fiscal 2020 to $113,235 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 2.2% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2020, with 739 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.

Engineer by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	441	$113,235	+2.6%	$99,674	+2.2%
2025	670	$110,333	+0.5%	$99,965	+4.8%
2024	543	$109,735	+1.4%	$92,758	+6.5%
2023	463	$108,204	+11.2%	$93,340	+7.9%
2022	637	$97,272	+3.9%	$85,322	+4.7%
2021	511	$93,634	+15.4%	$86,466	+2.5%
2020	739	$81,162	n/a	$77,990	+1.3%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
MediaTek USA Inc.	40	$141,889	+0.6%
Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company	28	$127,531	+31.4%
Turner Construction Company	20	$111,065	+2.2%
Arm, Inc.	18	$114,754	at the minimum
American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.	17	$132,838	+6.6%
Egen Solutions LLC	15	$104,882	+11.5%
Virginia Electric and Power Company	15	$118,560	+9.2%
Motional AD Inc.	11	$178,775	+51.7%
Samsung Austin Semiconductor, LLC	11	$103,100	+0.5%
CTC Trading Group, LLC	10	$200,000	+91.6%
Visual Concepts Entertainment	9	$132,683	at the minimum
KPIT Technologies, Inc.	9	$84,053	at the minimum
Super Micro Computer, Inc.	8	$149,500	+0.4%
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.	7	$130,187	at the minimum
Amgen Inc.	6	$106,333	+10.2%
Satyam Venture Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd.	6	$94,500	+0.9%
Environmental Chemical Corporation	5	$73,767	at the minimum
ANS Geo LLC	5	$71,470	+5.8%
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA)	5	$125,837	+15.3%
Energy Sciences Resource Partners, LLC	5	$73,840	at the minimum
Ryder System, Inc.	5	$94,400	+1.3%
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.	5	$260,000	+115.2%
Basic Systems INC	5	$63,735	at the minimum
Dominion Energy Technical Solutions, Inc.	5	$118,738	+13.3%
Applied Medical Resources Corporation	5	$78,146	at the minimum

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 210. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Engineer jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Austin, TX	40	$112,328	+0.3%
San Jose, CA	33	$150,238	+0.5%
New York, NY	30	$200,000	+16.6%
Glen Allen, VA	18	$118,738	+8.9%
Phoenix, AZ	17	$132,307	+6.9%
San Diego, CA	14	$130,043	+0.4%
San Francisco, CA	13	$177,216	+2.1%
Chicago, IL	12	$113,235	+1.7%
Naperville, IL	11	$103,698	+22.4%
Jersey City, NJ	9	$101,000	+0.9%
Chandler, AZ	7	$114,234	at the minimum
Irvine, CA	7	$136,084	+0.8%
Omaha, NE	7	$111,088	+31.2%
Plano, TX	7	$110,759	+6.7%
Las Vegas, NV	6	$150,000	+45.6%
Los Angeles, CA	6	$89,835	+9.2%
Palo Alto, CA	6	$220,000	+24.7%
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA	6	$82,573	+0.8%
Ann Arbor, MI	5	$73,840	at the minimum
Birmingham, AL	5	$80,000	+4.7%
Cambridge, OH	5	$63,735	at the minimum
Dallas, TX	5	$99,960	+5.9%
Santa Clara, CA	5	$150,238	at the minimum
Tampa, FL	5	$128,058	+63.4%
Tamuning, GU	5	$73,767	at the minimum

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry30%

Level II, qualified45%

Level III, experienced19%

Level IV, fully competent6%

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.
5 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.