148 certified · Median $165,000 a year · Blacksburg, VA
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Certified, then withdrawn
Withdrawn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
63
7
2
0
FY2025October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025
85
8
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
$145,000
Median
$165,000
75th percentile
$184,656
A year, from 146 certified full-time filings, the lower end of the wage offered.
Job titles
Senior Software EngineerSoftware Developers · median $181,79918
Software Engineer IISoftware Developers · median $159,47915
Senior Machine Learning EngineerRobotics Engineers · median $206,3159
Software Engineer IRobotics Engineers · median $125,0009
Senior Systems EngineerRobotics Engineers · median $165,0007
Engineering ManagerComputer and Information Systems Managers · median $191,2696
Software Engineer 2Software Developers · median $153,9506
Systems Engineer IIRobotics Engineers · median $139,0576
Machine Learning (ML) Engineer IIRobotics Engineers · median $162,1335
ML Engineer IRobotics Engineers · median $139,3885
Certified filings by job title, with the occupation (SOC) and the median wage.