SOC 17-2061.00
Computer Hardware Engineers — H-1B offered wages
Wages employers attested they would pay on certified Labor Condition Applications filed under SOC 17-2061.00.
- 25th percentile
- $137,470
- Median
- $159,656
- 75th percentile
- $188,625
- Employers
- 89
Offered wage, per year
Derived from $5,000 bands, not stored
1,477 disclosed positions
Offered wage, per year
Distinct sponsors behind the distribution
Top 89 sponsors of this occupation were read
Wage distribution
Each band is $5,000 wide.
25th $137,470 · median $159,656 · 75th $188,625 · 1,477 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
21
4%
Level II
151
31%
Level III
113
23%
Level IV
109
22%
Not stated
97
20%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Platforms, Inc | Menlo Park, CA | $162,204 | 427 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC | Seattle, WA | $153,725 | 358 |
| Google LLC | Mountain View, CA | $191,875 | 93 |
| Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. | Seattle, WA | $178,871 | 70 |
| Oracle America, Inc. | Austin, TX | $137,619 | 62 |
| Sandisk Technologies, Inc. | Milpitas, CA | $120,000 | 52 |
| Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | Santa Clara, CA | $115,000 | 50 |
| Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. | San Jose, CA | $227,500 | 40 |
| Amazon Data Services, Inc | Seattle, WA | $151,500 | 26 |
| Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | San Jose, CA | $137,500 | 26 |
| FIORI TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC | Irving, TX | $96,833 | 25 |
| Microsoft Corporation | Redmond, WA | $200,000 | 24 |
| Apple Inc. | Cupertino, CA | $175,000 | 20 |
| Intel Corporation | Santa Clara, CA | $155,000 | 20 |
| Tesla, Inc. | Austin, TX | $225,000 | 18 |
By metro
Metros with at least 15 disclosed positions across 3 or more employers.
| Metro | Median | Positions | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyvale, CA | $179,796 | 250 | 11 |
| Seattle, WA | $152,250 | 179 | 4 |
| Austin, TX | $161,053 | 176 | 16 |
| Santa Clara, CA | $155,000 | 114 | 17 |
| New York, NY | $137,700 | 79 | 4 |
| Cupertino, CA | $177,742 | 58 | 3 |
| San Jose, CA | $227,278 | 55 | 11 |
| Mountain View, CA | $207,500 | 54 | 9 |
| San Francisco, CA | $185,500 | 42 | 4 |
| Irvine, CA | $117,596 | 27 | 3 |
71 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 89 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.