Lead Application Engineer H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Sales Engineers (SOC 41-9031).

Employers filed 45 wage applications for Lead Application Engineer jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 8 employers. The median offered wage was $135,640, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the job. Cadence Design Systems, Inc. filed the most (35, median $134,809).

Filings: 45
Positions covered: 45
Employers: 8
Median offered: $135,640
Median prevailing wage: $134,809
Filings since FY2020: 233
Median offer change since FY2020: +16%

Lead Application Engineer, all employers45 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$135,640Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$122,100 to $150,799Where the middle half of the filings fall

$134,809Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Lead Application Engineer jobs rose 16%, from $114,401 in fiscal 2020 to $132,766 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 45 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.

Lead Application Engineer by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	38	$132,766	−2.1%	$129,216	at the minimum
2025	45	$135,640	+4.3%	$131,862	at the minimum
2024	21	$130,054	+3.6%	$129,730	at the minimum
2023	38	$125,486	+3.1%	$115,222	at the minimum
2022	39	$121,678	+5.1%	$112,736	at the minimum
2021	26	$115,747	+1.2%	$114,941	at the minimum
2020	26	$114,401	n/a	$113,572	at the minimum

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.	35	$134,809	at the minimum
HD Supply, Inc.	3	$160,000	+5.6%
Bitwise Inc.	2	$115,700	+3.9%
Appian Corporation	1	$130,000	+25.8%
Henkel Corporation	1	$124,842	at the minimum
ANSYS, Inc.	1	$154,791	at the minimum
Chef Robotics, Inc.	1	$180,000	+115.4%
Sage Millimeter, Inc.	1	$150,000	+5.4%

Where Lead Application Engineer jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
San Jose, CA	18	$139,235	at the minimum
Austin, TX	9	$134,809	at the minimum
Atlanta, GA	2	$163,839	+7.7%
Farmington Hills, MI	2	$102,077	at the minimum
Irvine, CA	2	$139,817	at the minimum
Novi, MI	2	$119,704	at the minimum
Schaumburg, IL	2	$115,700	+3.9%
Allen, TX	1	$180,000	+115.4%
Burlington, MA	1	$108,671	at the minimum
Hillsboro, OR	1	$130,723	at the minimum
Hollidaysburg, PA	1	$116,771	at the minimum
Nashville, TN	1	$130,000	+25.8%
Ontario, CA	1	$140,733	at the minimum
Torrance, CA	1	$150,000	+5.4%
Troy, MI	1	$146,247	+5.6%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry4%

Level II, qualified52%

Level III, experienced19%

Level IV, fully competent26%

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.

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