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San Francisco, CA H-1B salaries

Employers filed 29,929 certified H-1B applications for jobs in San Francisco, CA between Jan 2023 and Jun 2026. Half paid more than $175,984 a year.

Median salary offered: $175,984
Middle half earn: $140,000 to $211,680
Top 10% earn over: $250,000
Certified filings: 29,929

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Top employers

Employer	Filings	Median	Middle half
Salesforce, Inc.	2,078	$215,000	$182,376 – $246,792
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP	1,002	$140,602	$107,835 – $183,956
Google LLC	914	$185,000	$166,000 – $202,000
University of California, San Francisco	882	$86,900	$76,500 – $106,600
Amazon.com Services LLC	802	$181,500	$150,341 – $205,000
Uber Technologies, Inc.	778	$179,900	$158,000 – $205,975
DoorDash, Inc.	531	$181,813	$153,600 – $206,315
Airbnb, Inc.	375	$185,000	$174,000 – $199,767
Adobe Inc.	363	$174,000	$156,910 – $205,000
OpenAI OpCo, LLC	332	$295,000	$245,000 – $360,000
Databricks, Inc.	299	$166,962	$140,100 – $187,741
Autodesk, Inc.	298	$165,572	$139,670 – $193,475
Cisco Systems, Inc.	290	$161,470	$139,189 – $184,000
Chime Financial, Inc.	271	$200,000	$170,000 – $232,200
Amazon Web Services, Inc.	270	$186,100	$165,555 – $207,100
DocuSign Inc.	259	$203,500	$184,098 – $223,811
Meta Platforms, Inc	254	$215,136	$183,359 – $235,011
Anthropic, PBC	252	$213,512	$187,574 – $267,354
LinkedIn Corporation	238	$158,722	$139,000 – $180,987
Cruise LLC	207	$205,000	$180,960 – $229,850
Pinterest, Inc.	190	$174,304	$148,699 – $198,489
LYFT, Inc.	188	$148,000	$131,000 – $175,000
Microsoft Corporation	175	$185,000	$168,505 – $210,965
Scale AI, Inc.	174	$195,000	$164,850 – $225,375
Social Finance, LLC	162	$207,416	$173,688 – $237,900
Boston Consulting Group, Inc.	150	$190,000	$190,000 – $225,400
LendingClub Bank National Association	147	$185,400	$154,600 – $211,910
Gap Inc.	140	$170,000	$137,759 – $195,700
Okta, Inc.	137	$189,403	$165,464 – $213,512
Crusoe Energy Systems, Inc.	135	$210,000	$185,000 – $250,000
Asana, Inc.	135	$187,200	$171,000 – $207,000
BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.	127	$152,500	$135,250 – $180,960
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	119	$175,000	$162,202 – $209,441
Twilio, Inc.	114	$203,843	$176,290 – $241,180
Deloitte & Touche LLP	112	$96,491	$75,254 – $126,275
Twitch Interactive, Inc.	111	$190,600	$154,600 – $213,322
Sephora USA, Inc.	111	$162,739	$153,650 – $187,533
Resolve AI, Inc.	105	$240,000	$213,512 – $240,000
Dropbox, Inc.	104	$191,300	$173,100 – $215,545
People Center, Inc. d/b/a Rippling	102	$225,000	$191,250 – $272,250
Deloitte Consulting LLP	100	$157,750	$120,514 – $181,496
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC	96	$170,914	$151,592 – $188,200
Apple Inc.	95	$198,436	$175,131 – $210,900
Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services LLC	94	$190,000	$157,000 – $207,500
Visa U.S.A. Inc.	94	$170,277	$138,772 – $181,813
Cloudflare, Inc.	93	$185,000	$156,000 – $200,000
Thumbtack, Inc.	87	$190,000	$175,000 – $215,197
Bloomberg L.P.	83	$180,960	$147,368 – $181,272
Discord, Inc.	82	$237,895	$212,000 – $265,352
Ripple Labs, Inc.	79	$208,270	$177,835 – $242,620

Top job titles

Job title	Filings	Median	Middle half
Software Engineer	2,710	$180,000	$155,000 – $200,000
Senior Software Engineer	1,271	$191,889	$180,960 – $213,840
Software Engineering SMTS	474	$209,298	$198,264 – $222,715
Member of Technical Staff	426	$220,000	$187,574 – $315,000
Staff Software Engineer	387	$219,545	$203,266 – $250,000
Associate	333	$155,600	$135,000 – $220,000
Product Manager	323	$176,000	$154,750 – $203,900
Postdoctoral Scholar	313	$77,030	$71,908 – $80,034
Data Scientist	297	$160,000	$136,212 – $190,000
Software Engineering LMTS	294	$243,593	$233,633 – $257,754
Software Engineering MTS	257	$172,463	$163,800 – $181,125
Engineering Manager	201	$237,480	$210,704 – $259,000
Software Development Engineer II	181	$179,200	$165,200 – $194,700
Senior Data Scientist	178	$190,000	$165,000 – $215,000
Machine Learning Engineer	174	$181,636	$150,434 – $211,536
Senior Product Manager	170	$187,692	$172,000 – $213,900
Product Designer	160	$156,958	$127,982 – $187,720
Software Engineer II	139	$161,637	$149,000 – $183,880
Software Development Engineer	137	$171,000	$155,605 – $193,690
Data Engineer	134	$165,546	$144,625 – $186,705
Manager	132	$178,942	$156,074 – $202,750
Vice President	119	$185,000	$169,700 – $204,500
Software Engineering PMTS	119	$284,833	$274,347 – $297,348
Senior Data Engineer	117	$190,500	$174,117 – $205,000
Analyst	117	$110,000	$100,000 – $121,181
Senior Machine Learning Engineer	115	$195,000	$180,128 – $215,098
Software Development Engineer I	109	$148,400	$135,699 – $148,400
Senior Associate	107	$147,000	$125,000 – $175,000
Specialist	104	$93,200	$90,000 – $103,425
Consultant	103	$190,000	$177,500 – $190,000
Associate Specialist	102	$80,700	$76,500 – $83,600
Software Developer	91	$150,000	$135,142 – $162,120
Designer	83	$84,163	$76,095 – $90,470
Senior Product Designer	81	$185,000	$160,000 – $195,850
Research Scientist	78	$203,500	$177,340 – $220,000
Chief Technology Officer	77	$180,960	$140,000 – $213,512
Senior Manager, Software Engineering	75	$260,000	$240,160 – $269,445
Solutions Architect III	73	$203,900	$181,272 – $218,200
Software Engineering	72	$185,000	$161,637 – $212,127
Data Analyst	69	$121,597	$105,000 – $140,000
Senior Consultant	69	$133,400	$118,450 – $150,100
Research Engineer	69	$240,000	$195,000 – $240,000
Lead Software Engineer	66	$211,680	$180,960 – $235,016
Assistant Professor	64	$125,120	$94,875 – $195,000
Director	63	$230,000	$181,350 – $262,950
Senior Manager	61	$210,000	$173,000 – $222,000
Project Manager	57	$138,590	$113,838 – $157,000
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer)	56	$242,500	$200,000 – $255,000
Manager, Software Engineering	55	$230,308	$206,804 – $246,838
Senior Software Engineer II	54	$203,900	$185,325 – $213,512

By year

Year filed	Filings	Median
2023	2,205	$172,536
2024	10,170	$171,000
2025	10,283	$177,000
2026	7,271	$185,994