Worksite city · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA wage area
H-1B salaries in Palo Alto, CA
23% of new-employment offers here reach Level IV; 27% get a single lottery entry.
3,450certified H-1B LCAs with a worksite here, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026
$187,741median offer
23%of new-employment offers reach Level IV
1,072new-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 $89k to $269k
Lottery entries
1,072 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 | 1,350 | $200,000 |
| Computer and Information Research Scientists | 237 | $220,000 |
| Data Scientists | 200 | $175,000 |
| Mechanical Engineers | 172 | $170,000 |
| Industrial Engineers | 149 | $166,720 |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | 107 | $181,293 |
| Electrical Engineers | 106 | $205,200 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | 97 | $248,643 |
| Engineers, All Other | 68 | $180,028 |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | 63 | $173,040 |
| Financial and Investment Analysts | 58 | $165,600 |
| Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | 45 | $165,000 |
| Biological Scientists, All Other | 45 | $102,500 |
| Computer Hardware Engineers | 42 | $255,000 |
| Lawyers | 40 | $235,000 |
Top employers
| Employer | Certified LCAs | Median salary |
|---|---|---|
| Tesla, Inc. | 811 | $182,144 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC | 191 | $200,000 |
| Rivian Automotive, LLC | 122 | $201,680 |
| Rubrik, Inc. | 111 | $190,000 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 103 | $193,144 |
| Snap INC. | 102 | $194,374 |
| Rivian and VW Group Technology, LLC | 99 | $183,600 |
| Pinterest, Inc. | 67 | $195,354 |
| Salesforce, Inc. | 67 | $244,167 |
| The Leland Stanford, Jr University | 63 | $86,940 |
| VMware, Inc. | 63 | $217,500 |
| SAP Labs, LLC | 59 | $169,735 |
| Mistral AI, Inc. | 42 | $280,000 |
| X.ai LLC | 40 | $272,257 |
| Stanford Health Care | 37 | $150,000 |
| Tinder LLC | 34 | $187,741 |
| Ford Motor Company | 33 | $185,869 |
| Ariba, Inc. | 32 | $166,032 |
| Hippocratic AI, Inc | 32 | $240,000 |
| Also, Inc. | 31 | $222,500 |
| All other employers | 1,311 | – |