Salaries / Sales Engineers / Boston
Sales Engineers salaries in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data
Employers filed 111 certified H-1B applications for sales engineers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 64 employers.
The middle half of offers were $120,000 to $171,500 a year, with a median of $152,500: 2% above the national median for this job ($150,000).
The most common wage level was Level III (37% 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) | 9% | — |
| Level II (qualified) | 27% | — |
| Level III (experienced) | 37% | — |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 28% | — |
We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.
Who sponsors sales engineers here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The MathWorks, Inc. | 11 | $143,500 | 14 |
| Google LLC | 6 | $157,000 | — |
| Snowflake Inc. | 5 | $167,500 | 8 |
| Microsoft Corporation | 5 | $176,000 | 100 |
| Salesforce, Inc. | 5 | $193,000 | 40 |
| Comsol, Inc. | 4 | $143,500 | 2 |
| Analog Devices, Inc. | 3 | $139,500 | 9 |
| Siemens Industry Software Inc. | 3 | $167,500 | 18 |
| Dell Marketing L.P. | 3 | $148,000 | — |
| Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation | 3 | $120,000 | 1 |
| Liberate Innovations, Inc. | 2 | $182,500 | — |
| Zscaler, Inc. | 2 | $159,500 | 1 |
| Vicor Corporation | 2 | $155,500 | — |
| Grant USA, Inc. | 2 | $155,000 | — |
| Hcl America Inc | 2 | $143,000 | 9 |
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Common titles filed under this occupation: Sales Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Customer Engineer, Customer Solutions Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Digital Solution Engineering, Technical Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect.
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.