Staff Engineer II H-1B wages

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

Employers filed 33 wage applications for Staff Engineer II jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 11 employers. The median offered wage was $110,905, 13.8% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab filed the most (11, median $130,000).

Filings: 33
Positions covered: 30
Employers: 11
Median offered: $110,905
Median prevailing wage: $91,770
Filings since FY2020: 210
Median offer change since FY2020: −13%

Staff Engineer II, all employers33 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$110,905Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$96,350 to $130,000Where the middle half of the filings fall

$91,770Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Staff Engineer II jobs fell 13%, from $148,750 in fiscal 2020 to $130,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 12.8% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2023, 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.

Staff Engineer II by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	22	$130,000	+18.6%	$92,934	+12.8%
2025	37	$109,594	+14.4%	$87,017	+21.8%
2024	25	$95,800	−28.0%	$80,371	+15.2%
2023	45	$133,080	+10.9%	$117,842	+30.4%
2022	31	$120,000	−33.3%	$80,829	+55.9%
2021	33	$180,000	+21.0%	$138,383	+32.8%
2020	17	$148,750	n/a	$143,936	+6.0%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	11	$130,000	+37.0%
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	6	$97,403	+17.6%
Western Alliance Bank	5	$150,000	+12.8%
Piping Technology & Products, Inc¿.	1	$100,000	+2.4%
PARADIGM Structural Engineers, Inc.	1	$96,000	+3.3%
Verdantas LLC	1	$78,000	+6.3%
HR Green, Inc.	1	$100,901	at the minimum

Showing the 7 employers with the most filings of 11. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Staff Engineer II jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Menlo Park, CA	11	$130,000	+37.0%
Batavia, IL	6	$97,403	+17.6%
South Plainfield, NJ	4	$70,005	+4.2%
Houston, TX	2	$97,247	+3.7%
Westerville, OH	2	$140,443	+10.2%
Edison, NJ	1	$150,000	+12.5%
Glastonbury, CT	1	$90,625	at the minimum
Phoenix, AZ	1	$147,115	+14.2%
San Francisco, CA	1	$96,000	+3.3%
Tempe, AZ	1	$100,901	at the minimum
The Woodlands, TX	1	$92,000	+11.8%
Thousand Oaks, CA	1	$156,293	+29.7%
Wilmington, DE	1	$78,000	+6.3%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry7%

Level II, qualified73%

Level III, experienced13%

Level IV, fully competent7%

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.
3 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.