160 certified · Median $190,486 a year · Mountain View, CA
Counts are Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) employers filed with the US Department of Labor. Certified means DOL accepted the LCA, the step before a visa petition: it is not a visa or a hire. Wages are what the employer wrote on it. Data sources
By year
Fiscal year
Certified
Certified, then withdrawn
Withdrawn
Denied
FY2026October 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026
30
0
0
0
FY2025October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025
130
2
3
0
Every decision, by when it was made. From the US Department of Labor’s LCA disclosure files for FY2025 and FY2026, all listed in Data sources.
Wages
25th percentile
$180,710
Median
$190,486
75th percentile
$226,158
A year, from 159 certified full-time filings, the lower end of the wage offered.
Job titles
Staff Backend EngineerSoftware Developers · median $190,48616
Staff Machine Learning EngineerSoftware Developers · median $226,15816
Staff Software EngineerSoftware Developers · median $190,48612
Staff Back-end EngineerSoftware Developers · median $212,2029
Senior Software EngineerSoftware Developers · median $180,7107
Staff Backend Engineer IISoftware Developers · median $212,2027
Senior Backend EngineerSoftware Developers · median $176,8216
Senior Staff Backend EngineerSoftware Developers · median $223,0796
Staff Backend Engineer ISoftware Developers · median $190,1225
Staff Data ScientistData Scientists · median $183,5815
Certified filings by job title, with the occupation (SOC) and the median wage.