SOC 41-9031.00
Sales Engineers — H-1B offered wages
Wages employers attested they would pay on certified Labor Condition Applications filed under SOC 41-9031.00.
- 25th percentile
- $127,564
- Median
- $156,638
- 75th percentile
- $176,414
- Employers
- 99
Offered wage, per year
Derived from $5,000 bands, not stored
2,534 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 $127,564 · median $156,638 · 75th $176,414 · 2,534 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
14
2%
Level II
119
19%
Level III
214
35%
Level IV
211
34%
Not stated
57
9%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | San Jose, CA | $138,133 | 788 |
| Snowflake Inc. | Menlo Park, CA | $157,469 | 744 |
| Oracle America, Inc. | Austin, TX | $132,750 | 124 |
| Synopsys, Inc. | Sunnyvale, CA | $147,500 | 90 |
| NVIDIA Corporation | Santa Clara, CA | $187,500 | 83 |
| Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | Santa Clara, CA | $212,100 | 79 |
| Google LLC | Mountain View, CA | $176,786 | 73 |
| Amazon Web Services, Inc. | Seattle, WA | $126,625 | 53 |
| Microsoft Corporation | Redmond, WA | $180,000 | 50 |
| Anthropic, PBC | San Francisco, CA | $157,500 | 43 |
| ServiceNow, Inc. | Santa Clara, CA | $167,130 | 41 |
| Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | San Jose, CA | $166,875 | 30 |
| Siemens Industry Software Inc. | Plano, TX | $167,500 | 25 |
| Applied Materials, Inc | Santa Clara, CA | $157,500 | 21 |
| Salesforce, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $143,333 | 20 |
By metro
Metros with at least 15 disclosed positions across 3 or more employers.
| Metro | Median | Positions | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Jose, CA | $166,833 | 306 | 15 |
| San Francisco, CA | $157,386 | 213 | 17 |
| Santa Clara, CA | $195,640 | 201 | 16 |
| Austin, TX | $134,125 | 186 | 12 |
| Chicago, IL | $111,978 | 105 | 11 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | $185,625 | 88 | 5 |
| New York, NY | $157,115 | 63 | 14 |
| Seattle, WA | $122,981 | 31 | 7 |
| Milpitas, CA | $167,813 | 20 | 4 |
| Atlanta, GA | $123,333 | 16 | 4 |
148 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.