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Sales Engineers: H-1B salaries and wage levels

Level IV starts anywhere from $173,555 to $209,310 depending on the city. The median offer is $150,000.

2,464certified H-1B LCAs, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026
$150,000median offer
$126k to $180kmiddle half of offers
22%of new-employment offers reach Level IV for their area
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 by city

same scale for every row · black mark: median offer in that city
Santa Clara · San Jose IV $209k
San Francisco, CA IV $183k
New York, NY IV $176k
Austin, TX IV $174k
under Level ILevel IIIIIIIV and upmedian offerscale $80k to $220k
CityLCAsMedianLevel ILevel IILevel IIILevel IV
Santa Clara, CA169$168,958 $120,994$150,426$179,878$209,310
San Jose, CA154$168,958 $120,994$150,426$179,878$209,310
San Francisco, CA125$161,470 $97,032$125,694$154,378$183,040
New York, NY119$180,170 $102,544$126,880$151,237$175,573
Austin, TX106$145,000 $89,086$117,250$145,392$173,555

What employers offer

2,464 certified LCAs, coloured by the level each salary reaches in its own area
$60k to $70k: 9 LCAs$70k to $80k: 36 LCAs$80k to $90k: 36 LCAs$90k to $100k: 78 LCAs$100k to $110k: 170 LCAs$110k to $120k: 155 LCAs$120k to $130k: 255 LCAs$130k to $140k: 198 LCAs$140k to $150k: 284 LCAs$150k to $160k: 247 LCAs$160k to $170k: 219 LCAs$170k to $180k: 145 LCAs$180k to $190k: 169 LCAs$190k to $200k: 191 LCAs$200k to $210k: 103 LCAs$210k to $220k: 51 LCAs$220k to $230k: 27 LCAs$230k to $240k: 31 LCAs$240k to $250k: 20 LCAs$250k to $260k: 22 LCAs$260k to $270k: 5 LCAs$270k to $280k: 2 LCAs$280k to $290k: 1 LCA$290k to $300k: 3 LCAs$300k+: 7 LCAs $60k to $70k: 9 LCAs$70k to $80k: 36 LCAs$80k to $90k: 36 LCAs$90k to $100k: 78 LCAs$100k to $110k: 170 LCAs$110k to $120k: 155 LCAs$120k to $130k: 255 LCAs$130k to $140k: 198 LCAs$140k to $150k: 284 LCAs$150k to $160k: 247 LCAs$160k to $170k: 219 LCAs$170k to $180k: 145 LCAs$180k to $190k: 169 LCAs$190k to $200k: 191 LCAs$200k to $210k: 103 LCAs$210k to $220k: 51 LCAs$220k to $230k: 27 LCAs$230k to $240k: 31 LCAs$240k to $250k: 20 LCAs$250k to $260k: 22 LCAs$260k to $270k: 5 LCAs$270k to $280k: 2 LCAs$280k to $290k: 1 LCA$290k to $300k: 3 LCAs$300k+: 7 LCAs
$50k$100k$150k$200k$250k$300k
Level IIIIIIIVunder Level I = 10 LCAs = 20 LCAs

Lottery entries

836 new-employment LCAs
Sales Engineers 18%27%26%22% 836
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.

Over time

fiscal years, October to September · hatched: year to date

Certified H-1B LCAs

2,008 FY2026 to date

Median offer

$149,622 FY2026

Top employers

Jul 2025 to Jun 2026
#EmployerCertified LCAsMedian salary
1 Google LLC 215 $171,000
2 Microsoft Corporation 101 $177,100
3 NVIDIA Corporation 84 $171,071
4 Cisco Systems, Inc. 80 $140,540
5 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 66 $151,229
6 HCL America, Inc. 57 $128,190
7 ServiceNow, Inc. 57 $155,522
8 Salesforce, Inc. 56 $163,812
9 Snowflake Inc. 54 $160,618
10 Siemens Industry Software Inc. 44 $168,664
11 Databricks, Inc. 28 $144,821
12 Oracle America, Inc. 23 $147,195
13 Amazon Web Services, Inc. 19 $165,600
14 Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 19 $177,637
15 Okta, Inc. 18 $133,601
16 Saviynt, Inc. 17 $126,048
17 The MathWorks, Inc. 16 $143,520
18 Fci USA LLC 14 $113,797
19 LTIMindtree Limited 12 $134,220
20 Siemens Energy, Inc. 12 $141,000
21 Teradata Operations, Inc. 12 $147,821
22 Autodesk, Inc. 11 $126,298
23 Harness Inc. 11 $215,000
24 Keysight Technologies, Inc. 11 $146,890
25 KLA Corporation 11 $180,000
All other employers 1,416 –