SOC 15-1252.00
Software Developers — H-1B offered wages
Wages employers attested they would pay on certified Labor Condition Applications filed under SOC 15-1252.00.
- 25th percentile
- $131,239
- Median
- $150,378
- 75th percentile
- $181,299
- Employers
- 100
Offered wage, per year
Derived from $5,000 bands, not stored
101,551 disclosed positions
Offered wage, per year
Distinct sponsors behind the distribution
Top 100 sponsors of this occupation were read
Wage distribution
Each band is $5,000 wide.
25th $131,239 · median $150,378 · 75th $181,299 · 101,551 disclosed positions
Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.
Prevailing wage level
Level I is entry, IV is fully competent. The level sets the wage floor the employer had to meet.
Level I
1,420
5%
Level II
9,148
32%
Level III
6,030
21%
Level IV
5,310
18%
Not stated
7,038
24%
By employer
Each median is derived from that employer's own wage bands for this occupation — never an average of medians.
| Employer | Headquarters | Median | Positions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. | San Diego, CA | $143,231 | 20,128 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC | Seattle, WA | $150,306 | 11,165 |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | San Jose, CA | $152,630 | 4,943 |
| Amazon Web Services, Inc. | Seattle, WA | $145,928 | 4,819 |
| Apple Inc. | Cupertino, CA | $165,733 | 4,261 |
| CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc. | Fairfax, VA | $112,118 | 3,861 |
| Oracle America, Inc. | Austin, TX | $153,085 | 3,855 |
| NVIDIA Corporation | Santa Clara, CA | $183,738 | 3,353 |
| LinkedIn Corporation | Sunnyvale, CA | $171,191 | 2,884 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Chicago, IL | $140,500 | 2,784 |
| Google LLC | Mountain View, CA | $190,737 | 2,606 |
| Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. | Seattle, WA | $148,056 | 2,495 |
| WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. | PHOENIX, AZ | $154,486 | 2,067 |
| KFORCE INC. | TAMPA, FL | $128,333 | 2,040 |
| Microsoft Corporation | Redmond, WA | $180,962 | 1,964 |
By metro
Metros with at least 15 disclosed positions across 3 or more employers.
| Metro | Median | Positions | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego, CA | $140,115 | 14,644 | 27 |
| Santa Clara, CA | $185,487 | 9,690 | 21 |
| Seattle, WA | $149,451 | 8,801 | 42 |
| New York, NY | $155,795 | 5,592 | 55 |
| Austin, TX | $138,173 | 4,145 | 55 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | $180,708 | 4,102 | 18 |
| Bellevue, WA | $167,962 | 3,075 | 39 |
| San Francisco, CA | $178,446 | 2,401 | 39 |
| San Jose, CA | $175,343 | 2,341 | 24 |
| Dallas, TX | $130,262 | 2,328 | 32 |
| Cupertino, CA | $180,728 | 2,063 | 7 |
| Redmond, WA | $182,493 | 2,034 | 17 |
| Mountain View, CA | $189,158 | 1,999 | 15 |
| Menlo Park, CA | $204,121 | 1,617 | 3 |
| Charlotte, NC | $132,846 | 1,547 | 43 |
968 further metros are present in the data but below the reporting floor, so no range is published for them.
Percentiles are interpolated inside $5,000 bands summed across the 100 largest sponsors of this occupation, which is what the precomputed ranking holds — so they describe those sponsors, not the whole labour market. A page is only published when at least 25 disclosed positions across 3 employers stand behind it. Wages are what the employer attested at filing time, before the job started.