Specialist Engineer H-1B wages

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

Employers filed 37 wage applications for Specialist Engineer jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 7 employers. The median offered wage was $129,019, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the job. GlobalLogic Inc. filed the most (26, median $128,253).

Filings: 37
Positions covered: 37
Employers: 7
Median offered: $129,019
Median prevailing wage: $124,800
Filings since FY2020: 214
Median offer change since FY2020: +20%

Specialist Engineer, all employers37 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$129,019Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$115,336 to $139,152Where the middle half of the filings fall

$124,800Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Specialist Engineer jobs rose 20%, from $107,810 in fiscal 2020 to $129,019 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2020, 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.

Specialist Engineer by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	35	$129,019	−0.8%	$125,424	at the minimum
2025	22	$130,073	+8.1%	$127,878	at the minimum
2024	30	$120,328	+2.9%	$115,396	at the minimum
2023	28	$116,938	+5.2%	$116,771	at the minimum
2022	26	$111,176	−2.5%	$111,176	at the minimum
2021	28	$113,984	+5.7%	$105,685	at the minimum
2020	45	$107,810	n/a	$107,619	at the minimum

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
GlobalLogic Inc.	26	$128,253	at the minimum
Cooper Power Systems, LLC	2	$124,510	+20.7%
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, LLC	2	$96,072	+5.1%
Eaton Corporation	2	$137,881	+8.0%
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	2	$160,000	+0.8%
Siemens Industry, Inc.	2	$101,908	+6.7%
HSBC Technology & Services (USA) Inc.	1	$140,221	+12.4%

Where Specialist Engineer jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Overland Park, KS	6	$115,336	at the minimum
Redmond, WA	3	$139,298	at the minimum
Basking Ridge, NJ	2	$110,084	at the minimum
Deerfield, IL	2	$113,183	at the minimum
Issaquah, WA	2	$160,000	+0.8%
Nacogdoches, TX	2	$124,510	+20.7%
Northridge, CA	2	$114,983	at the minimum
Orlando, FL	2	$96,072	+5.1%
San Jose, CA	2	$158,850	at the minimum
Alpharetta, GA	1	$130,707	at the minimum
Buffalo, NY	1	$140,221	+12.4%
Charlotte, NC	1	$92,830	at the minimum
Dallas, TX	1	$134,971	at the minimum
Dublin, OH	1	$104,268	+1.0%
Golden, CO	1	$135,762	at the minimum
Irving, TX	1	$134,971	at the minimum
Lakewood, CO	1	$140,000	+15.9%
Leander, TX	1	$139,152	at the minimum
Manteca, CA	1	$133,973	at the minimum
Mounds View, MN	1	$125,798	at the minimum
Pleasanton, CA	1	$107,203	at the minimum
Sammamish, WA	1	$139,298	at the minimum
Wendell, NC	1	$99,548	+12.4%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry0%

Level II, qualified17%

Level III, experienced69%

Level IV, fully competent14%

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.