System Validation Engineer H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Electronics Engineers, Except Computer (SOC 17-2072).

Employers filed 51 wage applications for System Validation Engineer jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 8 employers. The median offered wage was $132,995, 0.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. Intel Corporation filed the most (32, median $139,787).

Filings: 51
Positions covered: 56
Employers: 8
Median offered: $132,995
Median prevailing wage: $129,792
Filings since FY2020: 700
Median offer change since FY2020: +46%

System Validation Engineer, all employers51 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$132,995Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$116,518 to $153,167Where the middle half of the filings fall

$129,792Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for System Validation Engineer jobs rose 46%, from $91,021 in fiscal 2020 to $133,023 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2022, with 169 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.

System Validation Engineer by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	45	$133,023	+13.4%	$129,792	at the minimum
2025	83	$117,300	+1.9%	$117,083	at the minimum
2024	108	$115,086	+5.9%	$109,470	at the minimum
2023	107	$108,638	+0.9%	$108,638	at the minimum
2022	169	$107,692	+13.0%	$102,440	at the minimum
2021	123	$95,326	+4.7%	$92,866	at the minimum
2020	65	$91,021	n/a	$91,021	at the minimum

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Intel Corporation	32	$139,787	+4.6%
SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp	9	$132,995	at the minimum
V-Soft Consulting Group, INC	3	$130,000	+0.2%
Quest Global Services- N.A., Inc.	3	$95,000	+0.9%
Nuvoton Technology Corporation America	1	$120,200	at the minimum
L&T Technology Services Limited	1	$125,000	+8.0%
Estuate Inc	1	$129,792	at the minimum
Astera Labs INC	1	$217,630	at the minimum

Where System Validation Engineer jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Hillsboro, OR	10	$134,100	+1.6%
Rancho Cordova, CA	9	$132,995	at the minimum
Austin, TX	7	$153,540	+13.0%
Folsom, CA	6	$141,835	+14.3%
Santa Clara, CA	4	$131,470	+2.0%
Bellevue, WA	3	$140,858	at the minimum
Chandler, AZ	3	$138,715	at the minimum
Mountain View, CA	3	$130,000	+0.2%
Sunnyvale, CA	3	$95,000	+0.9%
San Jose, CA	2	$168,915	at the minimum
Apex, NC	1	$153,540	+17.4%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry7%

Level II, qualified40%

Level III, experienced42%

Level IV, fully competent12%

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.