H-1B job title salary

Quality Assurance Engineer

#105 most-filed title 608 certified LCAs filed under 14 occupations
Median salary
$115,229
Half earn more, half less
Middle 50%
$94,193 – $136,762
P25 to P75
Change vs prior year
-3.57%
-6.5% after inflation
Share of all H-1B
0.1%
608 filings

Quality Assurance Engineer pay range

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

P10$80,435
P25$94,193
Median$115,229
P75$136,762
P90$164,640
Median by H-1B wage level
Level I$88,109111 LCAs
Level II$109,500298 LCAs
Level III$136,589148 LCAs
Level IV$142,93842 LCAs

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

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Quality Assurance Engineer 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 Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 88%Industrial Engineers 6%Software Developers 3%
Occupation (SOC) Share LCAs P25 Median P75
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 15-1253 87.83% 534 $95,402 $119,500 $138,746
Industrial Engineers 17-2112 6.25% 38 $78,224 $95,000 $102,013
Software Developers 15-1252 3.45% 21 $103,334 $108,160 $139,233

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

Top H-1B sponsors for Quality Assurance Engineer

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
Amazon
SOC 15-1253 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
 214 $135,350 +13.3%
Virtusa
SOC 15-1253 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
 23 $115,000 -3.8%
Audible
SOC 15-1253 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
 13 $125,300 +4.9%
People Tech
SOC 15-1253 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
 7 $101,234 -15.3%
Etouch
SOC 15-1253 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
 6 $153,542 +28.5%
Bytedance
SOC 15-1253 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
 5 $130,000 +8.8%

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.

  • Quality Assurance Engineer II142 LCAs · median $130,600
  • Quality Assurance Engineer III92 LCAs · median $164,327
  • Senior Quality Assurance Engineer85 LCAs · median $115,455
  • Quality Assurance Engineer I45 LCAs · median $121,000
  • Senior Quality Assurance Engineer II6 LCAs · median $155,482

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