Project Engineer H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Civil Engineers (SOC 17-2051).

Employers filed 1,136 wage applications for Project Engineer jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 720 employers. The median offered wage was $95,000, 4.4% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. Solize USA Corporation filed the most (13, median $97,115).

Filings: 1,136
Positions covered: 1,134
Employers: 720
Median offered: $95,000
Median prevailing wage: $87,371
Filings since FY2020: 7,513
Median offer change since FY2020: +27%

Project Engineer, all employers1,136 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$95,000Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$82,000 to $111,166Where the middle half of the filings fall

$87,371Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Project Engineer jobs rose 27%, from $74,000 in fiscal 2020 to $93,642 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 3.7% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 1,239 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.

Project Engineer by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	940	$93,642	+5.9%	$87,194	+3.7%
2025	1,239	$88,400	+4.0%	$81,702	+6.7%
2024	1,010	$85,000	+0.4%	$78,489	+6.3%
2023	979	$84,646	+3.0%	$78,499	+6.9%
2022	1,160	$82,160	+3.1%	$75,317	+4.6%
2021	1,001	$79,692	+7.7%	$72,665	+3.4%
2020	1,184	$74,000	n/a	$67,891	+2.8%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Solize USA Corporation	13	$97,115	+7.2%
Molex, LLC	12	$122,500	+8.6%
Shimmick Construction Company, Inc.	11	$127,500	+21.4%
Traton R&D US LLC	10	$135,200	+9.4%
Andrew M. Jordan, Inc.	8	$122,500	+16.7%
McFarland Building Group, LLC	8	$77,000	+6.6%
HNTB Corporation	8	$125,549	+3.8%
DeSimone Consulting Engineering D.P.C	7	$90,000	+9.9%
Garver LLC	7	$88,000	+0.4%
Willmeng Construction, Inc.	6	$68,723	at the minimum
CONSOR North America, Inc.	6	$112,204	+10.4%
VisionNav Robotics USA Inc.	6	$77,000	+19.5%
Mechanical, Inc.	6	$80,000	+11.6%
Empire Control Abatement, Inc.	6	$104,316	+2.8%
Jacobs Project Management Company	6	$116,480	+12.7%
Oscar Renda Contracting Inc.	5	$91,000	+7.0%
FEV North America, Inc.	5	$81,549	+4.8%
Webcor Construction, LP	5	$92,435	at the minimum
Gregory Construction Services, Inc.	5	$75,000	+28.1%
Clayco, Inc.	5	$87,000	+26.6%
Trinity Consultants, Inc.	5	$104,325	+9.0%
CES Consulting LLC	5	$100,110	+10.1%
Kide International (the States) LLC.	5	$83,472	+1.4%
Terracon Consultants, Inc.	5	$106,216	+4.4%
Exbon Development, Inc.	5	$86,106	+13.0%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 720. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Project Engineer jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Houston, TX	51	$95,995	+3.3%
New York, NY	36	$102,613	+8.1%
Chicago, IL	17	$91,438	+0.5%
Phoenix, AZ	17	$70,990	at the minimum
Austin, TX	16	$110,002	+6.6%
San Francisco, CA	16	$110,000	+0.7%
Tampa, FL	16	$90,688	+6.5%
Auburn Hills, MI	15	$93,642	+4.8%
Miami, FL	14	$94,775	+8.7%
Los Angeles, CA	13	$113,000	+6.9%
San Antonio, TX	13	$106,216	+8.6%
Raymond, OH	12	$96,720	+7.7%
Seattle, WA	12	$95,576	+0.1%
Brooklyn, NY	11	$105,000	+2.4%
Lisle, IL	11	$132,209	+6.3%
Oakland, CA	11	$113,838	+6.5%
Las Vegas, NV	9	$75,000	at the minimum
Rochester Hills, MI	9	$125,000	+9.6%
Dallas, TX	8	$96,000	+8.8%
Northvale, NJ	8	$90,000	+14.2%
Fort Worth, TX	7	$90,085	+0.9%
Plainview, NY	7	$100,131	+5.1%
Plymouth, MI	7	$84,000	+0.4%
Troy, MI	7	$104,125	at the minimum
Charlotte, NC	6	$76,500	+5.2%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry38%

Level II, qualified37%

Level III, experienced16%

Level IV, fully competent9%

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.
22 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.