H-1B job title salary

Software Engineer Staff

#896 most-filed title 49 certified LCAs filed under 5 occupations
Median salary
$199,534
Half earn more, half less
Middle 50%
$172,931 – $223,142
P25 to P75
Change vs prior year
+8.05%
+4.77% after inflation
Share of all H-1B
0%
49 filings

Software Engineer Staff pay range

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

P10$149,365
P25$172,931
Median$199,534
P75$223,142
P90$226,158
Median by H-1B wage level
Level II$172,93111 LCAs
Level III$199,53418 LCAs
Level IV$223,14213 LCAs

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

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Software Engineer Staff 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 92%
Occupation (SOC) Share LCAs P25 Median P75
Software Developers 15-1252 91.84% 45 $172,931 $199,534 $226,138

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

Top H-1B sponsors for Software Engineer Staff

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
Juniper Networks
SOC 15-1252 · Software Developers
33 $199,534 +0%
Bill Operations
SOC 15-1252 · Software Developers
7 $221,944 +11.2%

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.

  • Software Engineer Senior Staff16 LCAs · median $211,338

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