H-1B job title salary

Principal Data Engineer

#260 most-filed title 225 certified LCAs filed under 9 occupations

Median salary

$145,669

Half earn more, half less

Middle 50%

$132,223 – $171,019

P25 to P75

Change vs prior year

-2.2%

-5.17% after inflation

Share of all H-1B

225 filings

Principal Data Engineer pay range

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

P10$121,263

P25$132,223

Median$145,669

P75$171,019

P90$204,727

Median by H-1B wage level

Level II$136,22222 LCAs

Level III$155,00035 LCAs

Level IV$170,00079 LCAs

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

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Based on hrs/week × weeks/year = 2,080 hrs

SOC split

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 60%Database Architects 20%Data Scientists 14%Database Administrators 3%

Occupation (SOC)	Share	LCAs	P25	Median	P75
Software Developers 15-1252	59.56%	134	$125,323	$139,638	$155,704
Database Architects 15-1243	19.56%	44	$144,200	$158,822	$184,106
Data Scientists 15-2051	14.22%	32	$134,970	$158,329	$197,647
Database Administrators 15-1242	2.67%	6	$134,491	$145,152	$155,721

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

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
Fidelity Technology D/b/a Fidelity Investments SOC 15-1252 · Software Developers	77	$135,126	-3.2%
Citizens Financial SOC 15-1252 · Software Developers	5	$154,669	+10.8%
Dataeconomy SOC 15-1243 · Database Architects	5	$155,000	-2.4%

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