Worksite city · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA wage area
H-1B salaries in Mountain View, CA
10% of new-employment offers here reach Level IV; 34% get a single lottery entry.
5,898certified H-1B LCAs with a worksite here, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026
$196,000median offer
10%of new-employment offers reach Level IV
2,307new-employment LCAs
Source U.S. Dept. of Labor, OFLC disclosure files Covers decisions Jul 2025 to Jun 2026 Release FY2026 Q3, published Aug 7, 2026 Wage levels OFLC 2026-27
Wage levels for the top jobs here
same scale for every row · black mark: median offerunder Level ILevel IIIIIIIV and upmedian offerscale $77k to $269k
Lottery entries
2,307 new-employment LCAs1 entry · Level I2 · Level II3 · Level III4 · Level IVunder Level I, still 1 entry
How this is calculated
New-employment H-1B LCAs only, the filings behind most cap petitions; extensions, transfers and amendments do not go through the lottery, and cap-exempt universities and nonprofit research organizations are left out. Each offered salary (low end of the range) is compared with the OFLC Level I to IV wages for its occupation and worksite area, wage year 2026-27; a filing with several worksites counts at its lowest level, as the rule requires. Numbers on the right are LCAs. Full methodology.
Jobs and employers
Jul 2025 to Jun 2026Top jobs
| Job | Certified LCAs | Median salary |
|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | 3,133 | $200,000 |
| Data Scientists | 380 | $200,000 |
| Computer and Information Research Scientists | 339 | $210,000 |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | 310 | $187,000 |
| Operations Research Analysts | 170 | $148,380 |
| Computer Hardware Engineers | 161 | $203,133 |
| Engineers, All Other | 143 | $187,762 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | 123 | $248,643 |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | 115 | $145,000 |
| Electrical Engineers | 101 | $208,000 |
| Project Management Specialists | 95 | $185,400 |
| Mechanical Engineers | 84 | $188,500 |
| Computer Programmers | 69 | $130,853 |
| Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | 51 | $152,000 |
| Industrial Engineers | 48 | $165,000 |
Top employers
| Employer | Certified LCAs | Median salary |
|---|---|---|
| Google LLC | 2,605 | $200,000 |
| Microsoft Corporation | 569 | $202,498 |
| Intuit Inc. | 396 | $190,000 |
| Waymo LLC | 259 | $205,000 |
| Databricks, Inc. | 114 | $187,741 |
| Amazon Web Services, Inc. | 101 | $176,600 |
| Aurora Operations, Inc. | 72 | $168,283 |
| General Motors | 58 | $220,000 |
| Samsung Research America, Inc. | 51 | $181,293 |
| Atlassian US, Inc. | 47 | $227,000 |
| Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. | 46 | $156,850 |
| Nuro, Inc | 46 | $199,450 |
| Otter.ai, Inc. | 41 | $188,000 |
| Commure, Inc. | 36 | $152,500 |
| Samsung Electronics America, Inc. | 36 | $206,940 |
| Matic Robots, Inc. | 31 | $160,000 |
| Gen Digital Inc. | 29 | $188,160 |
| Particle Media, Inc. | 29 | $174,304 |
| Applied Intuition, Inc. | 27 | $220,000 |
| Coupang Global LLC | 27 | $241,358 |
| All other employers | 1,278 | – |