Senior Staff Engineer H-1B wages

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

Employers filed 216 wage applications for Senior Staff Engineer jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 63 employers. The median offered wage was $183,257, 3.6% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. Samsung Austin Semiconductor, LLC filed the most (31, median $204,901).

Filings: 216
Positions covered: 329
Employers: 63
Median offered: $183,257
Median prevailing wage: $170,248
Filings since FY2020: 1,228
Median offer change since FY2020: +23%

Senior Staff Engineer, all employers216 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$183,257Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$161,179 to $217,315Where the middle half of the filings fall

$170,248Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Senior Staff Engineer jobs rose 23%, from $149,074 in fiscal 2020 to $182,681 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 2.2% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2022, with 249 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 Staff Engineer by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	173	$182,681	+1.7%	$166,795	+2.2%
2025	179	$179,569	+6.7%	$162,365	+6.1%
2024	150	$168,335	+3.3%	$151,216	+3.5%
2023	198	$162,943	+3.8%	$141,742	+9.2%
2022	249	$156,939	+8.1%	$141,025	+4.7%
2021	143	$145,246	−2.6%	$130,894	+0.7%
2020	136	$149,074	n/a	$134,139	+5.5%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Samsung Austin Semiconductor, LLC	31	$204,901	+3.1%
MediaTek USA Inc.	22	$182,500	+0.4%
Tenstorrent USA Inc.	16	$186,202	at the minimum
Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.	10	$170,864	+6.3%
Nutanix, Inc.	9	$264,514	at the minimum
Terracon Consultants, Inc.	9	$90,875	+8.1%
Comerica Management Company	8	$130,900	+10.3%
Seagate US LLC	6	$157,040	+9.4%
Uber Technologies, Inc.	6	$291,250	+33.6%
The TJX Companies, Inc.	6	$171,468	+8.2%
Schnabel Management Services, Inc.	5	$86,237	+7.8%
Upscale AI, Inc	5	$230,000	+0.4%
Ventana Micro Systems Inc.	4	$180,000	+4.1%
Fifth Third Bank, National Association	4	$132,400	+5.3%
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.	4	$200,533	at the minimum
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.	4	$174,361	at the minimum
Illumio, Inc.	3	$187,741	at the minimum
BNSF Railway Company	2	$243,750	+32.0%
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$187,778	+55.6%
Cloudera, Inc.	2	$216,768	+33.5%
Grey Orange Incorporated	2	$250,000	+37.6%
Vimo Inc.	2	$317,370	+103.8%
Infineon Technologies LLC	2	$147,898	+37.6%
Rivian Automotive, LLC	2	$227,012	+88.4%
Webflow, Inc.	2	$218,006	+2.1%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 63. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Senior Staff Engineer jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
San Jose, CA	53	$216,091	at the minimum
Austin, TX	26	$177,500	+11.7%
Santa Clara, CA	21	$216,091	at the minimum
San Francisco, CA	9	$285,200	+17.6%
San Diego, CA	7	$184,974	+0.5%
Auburn Hills, MI	6	$131,950	+7.9%
Frisco, TX	6	$131,650	+10.8%
Longmont, CO	5	$157,113	+6.4%
Marlborough, MA	5	$169,586	+9.7%
Sunnyvale, CA	5	$187,741	at the minimum
New York, NY	4	$282,850	+49.2%
Redwood City, CA	4	$250,000	+22.9%
Cupertino, CA	3	$180,000	+0.9%
Irvine, CA	3	$227,012	+88.4%
Lynnwood, WA	3	$145,944	+5.5%
Lathrop, CA	2	$317,370	+103.8%
Lombard, IL	2	$105,438	+16.0%
Owings Mills, MD	2	$79,279	+5.6%
Pleasanton, CA	2	$204,427	+1.8%
Round Rock, TX	2	$178,875	+40.8%
Savannah, GA	2	$93,598	+9.5%
Scottsdale, AZ	2	$151,039	at the minimum
Seattle, WA	2	$165,138	+24.8%
Tarrytown, NY	2	$187,778	+55.6%
Walnut Creek, CA	2	$95,000	+2.2%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry4%

Level II, qualified13%

Level III, experienced20%

Level IV, fully competent63%

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.