Worksite city · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA wage area

H-1B salaries in San Jose, CA

15% of new-employment offers here reach Level IV; 43% get a single lottery entry.

11,060certified H-1B LCAs with a worksite here, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026

$179,102median offer

15%of new-employment offers reach Level IV

3,676new-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 offer

Software Developers

IV $256k

Computer Occupations, All Other

IV $236k

Electronics Engineers, Except Computer

IV $219k

Data Scientists

IV $256k

Computer and Information Systems Managers

IV $239k

Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

IV $190k

Computer and Information Research Scientists

IV $254k

Accountants and Auditors

IV $151k

under Level ILevel IIIIIIIV and upmedian offerscale $75k to $269k

Lottery entries

3,676 new-employment LCAs

San Jose, CA 19%24%29%14%15% 3,676

All employers 12%28%25%18%16% 149,984

1 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 2026

Top jobs

#	Job	Certified LCAs	Median salary
1	Software Developers	3,748	$190,000
2	Computer Occupations, All Other	860	$181,293
3	Electronics Engineers, Except Computer	801	$170,884
4	Data Scientists	777	$184,205
5	Computer and Information Systems Managers	434	$254,988
6	Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers	415	$152,540
7	Computer and Information Research Scientists	293	$211,200
8	Accountants and Auditors	251	$128,502
9	Computer Programmers	245	$130,853
10	Electrical Engineers	235	$167,313
11	Industrial Engineers	229	$145,205
12	Operations Research Analysts	202	$147,742
13	Project Management Specialists	171	$186,628
14	Computer Systems Analysts	163	$131,600
15	Mechanical Engineers	163	$158,995

Top employers

#	Employer	Certified LCAs	Median salary
1	PayPal, Inc.	876	$185,000
2	Adobe Inc.	768	$194,000
3	TT Commerce & Global Services LLC	700	$216,000
4	ByteDance Inc.	526	$235,000
5	eBay Inc.	436	$209,620
6	Cisco Systems, Inc.	361	$179,333
7	TikTok Inc.	334	$254,494
8	Cadence Design Systems, Inc.	222	$156,853
9	TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc.	218	$195,450
10	Ernst & Young U.S. LLP	186	$157,576
11	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company	186	$181,293
12	Google LLC	165	$200,000
13	Zoom Communications, Inc.	152	$173,298
14	Nutanix, Inc.	145	$187,574
15	Xilinx, Inc.	144	$173,782
16	Western Digital Technologies, Inc.	123	$148,310
17	Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.	119	$186,472
18	Zscaler, Inc.	113	$197,020
19	Asml US, LP	96	$159,442
20	Infineon Technologies Americas Corp.	86	$173,196
	All other employers	5,104	–