R&D Engineer Software H-1B wages

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

Employers filed 132 wage applications for R&D Engineer Software jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 7 employers. The median offered wage was $184,433, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the job. VMware LLC filed the most (78, median $187,165).

Filings: 132
Positions covered: 662
Employers: 7
Median offered: $184,433
Median prevailing wage: $183,153
Filings since FY2020: 726
Median offer change since FY2020: +28%

R&D Engineer Software, all employers132 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$184,433Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$155,019 to $217,500Where the middle half of the filings fall

$183,153Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for R&D Engineer Software jobs rose 28%, from $145,680 in fiscal 2020 to $186,446 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 206 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.

R&D Engineer Software by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	104	$186,446	+2.0%	$186,446	at the minimum
2025	206	$182,771	+2.8%	$182,676	at the minimum
2024	104	$177,873	+18.4%	$177,873	at the minimum
2023	65	$150,197	−6.1%	$139,464	at the minimum
2022	105	$159,928	+12.1%	$143,666	at the minimum
2021	70	$142,667	−2.1%	$135,658	at the minimum
2020	72	$145,680	n/a	$135,273	at the minimum

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
VMware LLC	78	$187,165	at the minimum
CA, Inc.	31	$151,724	at the minimum
Broadcom Corporation	11	$187,165	at the minimum
Brocade Communications Systems	6	$187,165	at the minimum
LSI Corporation	2	$147,152	at the minimum
Avago Technologies US Inc.	2	$110,490	at the minimum
Smith & Nephew, Inc.	2	$104,503	+1.5%

Where R&D Engineer Software jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Palo Alto, CA	58	$187,902	at the minimum
San Jose, CA	15	$187,902	at the minimum
Burlington, MA	8	$178,131	at the minimum
Plano, TX	8	$143,491	at the minimum
Austin, TX	7	$163,550	at the minimum
Durham, NC	6	$161,741	at the minimum
Lisle, IL	6	$146,995	at the minimum
Bellevue, WA	3	$212,202	at the minimum
Andover, MA	2	$144,066	+1.1%
Draper, UT	2	$148,700	at the minimum
Fort Collins, CO	2	$110,490	at the minimum
Irvine, CA	2	$160,822	at the minimum
Pittsburgh, PA	2	$119,880	+0.4%
Reston, VA	2	$191,714	+4.8%
Colorado Springs, CO	1	$154,170	at the minimum
Culver City, CA	1	$167,572	at the minimum
Duluth, GA	1	$140,133	at the minimum
Katy, TX	1	$149,718	at the minimum
Mendota Heights, MN	1	$112,769	at the minimum
Portsmouth, NH	1	$178,131	at the minimum
Princeton, NJ	1	$185,000	+20.9%
Tracy, CA	1	n/a
West Windsor, NJ	1	$230,464	+50.6%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry3%

Level II, qualified11%

Level III, experienced0%

Level IV, fully competent86%

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.
1 filing is 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.