Salaries / Sales Engineers / San Jose
Sales Engineers salaries in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data
Employers filed 477 certified H-1B applications for sales engineers in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 145 employers.
The middle half of offers were $150,000 to $198,500 a year, with a median of $172,500: 15% above the national median for this job ($150,000).
The most common wage level was Level IV (42% 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) | 8% | — |
| Level II (qualified) | 22% | — |
| Level III (experienced) | 28% | — |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 42% | — |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google LLC | 68 | $199,500 | — |
| NVIDIA Corporation | 65 | $169,000 | 14 |
| Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 39 | $151,500 | 44 |
| ServiceNow, Inc. | 23 | $169,000 | 10 |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | 22 | $169,000 | 33 |
| Siemens Industry Software Inc. | 14 | $165,500 | 18 |
| Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | 10 | $204,000 | 19 |
| KLA Corporation | 8 | $199,000 | 18 |
| Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. | 7 | $186,000 | 2 |
| Hcl America Inc | 6 | $198,500 | 9 |
| Arista Networks, Inc. | 6 | $139,000 | 2 |
| Microsoft Corporation | 6 | $192,500 | 100 |
| Intel Americas, Inc. | 5 | $169,000 | 6 |
| Rubrik, Inc. | 5 | $175,000 | — |
| Intel Corporation | 4 | $199,000 | 7 |
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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.