H-1B job title salary

Engineer, Software Development

#919 most-filed title 48 certified LCAs filed under 2 occupations
Median salary
$132,322
Half earn more, half less
Middle 50%
$116,943 – $149,240
P25 to P75
Change vs prior year
+2.97%
-0.15% after inflation
Share of all H-1B
0%
48 filings

Engineer, Software Development pay range

Annual base pay in certified H-1B filings for this title, all occupations combined.

P10$101,442
P25$116,943
Median$132,322
P75$149,240
P90$158,309
Median by H-1B wage level
Level II$131,08217 LCAs

Level I is entry level, Level IV fully experienced (Department of Labor prevailing-wage levels).

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Engineer, Software Development pay by occupation code

Employers file the same title under different SOC occupation codes, and pay differs between them. Each row is computed only within its SOC.

Software Developers 98%
Occupation (SOC) Share LCAs P25 Median P75
Software Developers 15-1252 97.92% 47 $116,865 $131,997 $149,240

Occupations with fewer than 5 filings for this title are not shown.

Top H-1B sponsors for Engineer, Software Development

What the biggest sponsors pay for this title, compared with the median of all sponsors filing the same title in the same occupation.

Employer LCAs Median vs all sponsors
Godaddy Com
SOC 15-1252 · Software Developers
22 $137,206 +4%
Fractal Analytics
SOC 15-1252 · Software Developers
8 $132,322 +0.3%

Exact titles grouped here

The most common versions of this title as employers wrote them (after removing job codes and typos), with their own medians.

  • Engineer - Software Development27 LCAs · median $134,514
  • Senior Engineer, Software Development16 LCAs · median $133,877

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