Salaries / Materials Engineers / Portland
Materials Engineers salaries in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data
Employers filed 390 certified H-1B applications for materials engineers in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 9 employers.
The middle half of offers were $112,500 to $133,500 a year, with a median of $133,500: 7% above the national median for this job ($125,000).
The most common wage level was Level III (76% of filings).
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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) | 1% | — |
| Level II (qualified) | 19% | — |
| Level III (experienced) | 76% | — |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 4% | — |
We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.
Who sponsors materials engineers here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Corporation | 335 | $133,500 | 315 |
| Lam Research Corporation | 38 | $112,500 | 26 |
| Applied Materials, Inc | 5 | $133,000 | 44 |
| Asm America Inc. | 4 | $112,500 | 20 |
| Analog Devices, Inc. | 2 | $123,500 | 2 |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | 2 | $127,000 | — |
| Hitachi High-Tech America, Inc. | 2 | $137,000 | — |
| Nova Measuring Instruments Inc. | 1 | $112,500 | 2 |
| NIKE, Inc. | 1 | $190,000 | 1 |
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Common titles filed under this occupation: Process Engineer, Materials Engineer, Product Engineer, Packaging Engineer, Process Support Engineer, Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering, Senior Engineer I, Process Engineering, Field Process 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.