Salaries / Engineers, All Other / San Francisco
Engineers, All Other salaries in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data Prevailing wages: DOL wage year 2026-27
Employers filed 257 certified H-1B applications for engineers, all other in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 119 employers.
The middle half of offers were $135,000 to $200,000 a year, with a median of $166,500: 28% above the national median for this job ($130,000).
The most common wage level was Level II (39% of filings).
The 2026-27 prevailing wage floor here is $98,051 at Level I and $130,146 at Level II.
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Wage levels
DOL sets four wage levels by experience. The share of filings at each level, and the minimum the employer must pay for that level here.
| Level | Share of filings | Prevailing wage (minimum) |
|---|---|---|
| Level I (entry) | 12% | $98,051 |
| Level II (qualified) | 39% | $130,146 |
| Level III (experienced) | 30% | $162,261 |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 18% | $194,355 |
Who sponsors engineers, all other here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 20 | $131,500 | 1 |
| Skild AI, Inc. | 15 | $225,000 | — |
| Tesla, Inc. | 15 | $160,500 | 56 |
| Dexterity, Inc. | 9 | $133,500 | 2 |
| 1X Technologies, Inc. | 7 | $166,500 | — |
| DoorDash, Inc. | 6 | $200,000 | 4 |
| Lucid USA, Inc. | 6 | $133,500 | 3 |
| Zoox Inc. | 6 | $208,500 | 14 |
| Skydio, Inc. | 5 | $205,000 | — |
| Serve Operating Co. | 5 | $210,000 | — |
| Cruise LLC | 4 | $242,000 | 9 |
| Bright Machines, Inc. | 4 | $200,000 | 1 |
| Nimble Robotics, Inc. | 4 | $157,500 | 1 |
| Pony.AI, Inc. | 4 | $154,000 | — |
| Anyware Robotics Inc. | 4 | $180,000 | 1 |
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Common titles filed under this occupation: Robotics Engineer, Software Engineer, Controls Engineer, Automation Engineer, Mechatronics Engineer, Manufacturing Controls Dev Engineer, Research Engineer, Energy Engineer.
About this data
Offers are the wages employers put on certified Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H-1B workers: Certified H-1B LCAs decided July 2025 to June 2026. An LCA is filed before a petition, so not every filing became a job, and pay excludes bonus and stock. Annual pay; hourly offers are multiplied by 2,080. Pages appear only where there were at least 100 filings. Source: DOL disclosure data and OFLC wage data. Not legal or financial advice.