LCA decisions in 2025 and through March 31, 2026

Senior Staff Engineer on H-1B filings: salary and sponsors

Short answer

Senior Staff Engineer appears on 35 H-1B labor condition applications for IT occupations (LCA decisions in 2025 and through March 31, 2026), filed by 23 employers, which ranks it 245 of 620 titles on this site. The median offered wage is $185,000 a year (middle half: $171,200 to $226,138). The most common state is California (17).

Offered wage

MeasurePer year
Lower quartile (offered)$171,200
Median (offered)$185,000
Upper quartile (offered)$226,138
Median prevailing wage on the same filings$178,131

The median offered wage is 3.9% above the median prevailing wage on these filings. For the DOL levels by area, see prevailing wages.

Wage levelFilingsShare
Level II311%
Level III829%
Level IV1761%

Where and who

StateFilings
California17
Massachusetts5
Texas4
Arizona2
New York2
New Jersey1

Occupation on the filings: Software Developers (31), Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (1). An LCA is not an approval or a job opening. Corrections: support@matchwire.co.

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