Senior Mechanical Engineer H-1B wages

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

Employers filed 173 wage applications for Senior Mechanical Engineer jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 136 employers. The median offered wage was $130,500, 9.3% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. Rivian Automotive, LLC filed the most (5, median $140,000).

Filings: 173
Positions covered: 212
Employers: 136
Median offered: $130,500
Median prevailing wage: $117,333
Filings since FY2020: 1,013
Median offer change since FY2020: +30%

Senior Mechanical Engineer, all employers173 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$130,500Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$110,001 to $150,654Where the middle half of the filings fall

$117,333Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Senior Mechanical Engineer jobs rose 30%, from $100,000 in fiscal 2020 to $130,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 8.7% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2024, with 175 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.

Senior Mechanical Engineer by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	143	$130,000	−1.0%	$117,603	+8.7%
2025	161	$131,330	+2.0%	$117,083	+8.3%
2024	175	$128,750	+7.3%	$113,963	+12.0%
2023	159	$120,000	+5.5%	$106,391	+8.2%
2022	144	$113,750	+8.4%	$104,062	+8.4%
2021	121	$104,900	+4.9%	$98,134	+4.1%
2020	110	$100,000	n/a	$89,992	+9.0%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Rivian Automotive, LLC	5	$140,000	+31.4%
Veeco Instruments Inc.	5	$158,995	+5.7%
Kforce Inc.	5	$132,142	at the minimum
Agility Robotics Inc.	4	$195,000	+14.2%
Heron Power Electronics Co.	2	$175,000	+52.0%
Transtex LLC	2	$112,164	at the minimum
Schneider Electric USA, Inc.	2	$104,580	+8.4%
Golberg Companies, Inc	2	$97,000	+1.0%
Onward Technologies Inc	2	$88,899	at the minimum
FORTNA Systems Inc.	2	$113,351	+12.0%
Smart Wires Inc	2	$122,500	+10.4%
Redwood Materials, Inc.	2	$149,087	+31.0%
Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc.	2	$137,500	+15.9%
BorgWarner PDS (USA) Inc.	2	$109,928	+7.0%
Arup US, Inc.	2	$150,000	+20.4%
Cooper Lighting, LLC	2	$127,194	+4.5%
HDR Engineering, Inc.	2	$139,568	+13.3%
Stanley Black and Decker, Inc.	2	$104,210	+7.1%
Softwear Automation Inc.	2	$145,000	+11.2%
Joby Aero, Inc.	2	$152,042	+15.5%
1x Technologies Inc.	2	$140,079	+5.4%
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	2	$111,403	+61.4%
Belkin International Inc.	1	$142,355	at the minimum
Netgroup, Inc	1	$92,851	at the minimum
NVIDIA Corporation	1	$185,869	at the minimum

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 136. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Senior Mechanical Engineer jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Houston, TX	8	$151,846	+2.4%
San Jose, CA	8	$155,630	+6.2%
Fremont, CA	7	$182,500	+12.8%
Irvine, CA	5	$134,600	+19.8%
Mountain View, CA	5	$170,000	+6.9%
Santa Clara, CA	5	$184,900	+9.2%
New York, NY	4	$135,000	+11.2%
Austin, TX	3	$140,000	+13.8%
San Carlos, CA	3	$145,000	+10.9%
San Francisco, CA	3	$151,000	+3.0%
Secaucus, NJ	3	$110,978	+0.3%
South San Francisco, CA	3	$158,500	+5.2%
Tucson, AZ	3	$140,000	+16.5%
Austell, GA	2	$145,000	+11.2%
Batavia, IL	2	$111,403	+61.4%
Cambridge, MA	2	$121,605	+7.4%
Chicago, IL	2	$97,500	+29.2%
Corvallis, OR	2	$94,838	+1.0%
Durham, NC	2	$122,500	+10.4%
Garfield, MN	2	$97,000	+1.0%
Hayward, CA	2	$130,000	+8.3%
Kokomo, IN	2	$109,928	+7.0%
Manitowoc, WI	2	$88,899	at the minimum
Newark, CA	2	$133,368	+7.1%
Ormond Beach, FL	2	$89,491	+0.6%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry6%

Level II, qualified24%

Level III, experienced40%

Level IV, fully competent30%

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.
4 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.