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Salaries / Sales Engineers / Seattle

Sales Engineers salaries in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data

Employers filed 119 certified H-1B applications for sales engineers in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 53 employers.

The middle half of offers were $134,500 to $184,000 a year, with a median of $152,000: 1% above the national median for this job ($150,000).

The most common wage level was Level IV (51% of filings).

25th percentile$134,500
Median offer$152,000
75th percentile$184,000
National median$150,000

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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.

LevelShare of filingsPrevailing wage (minimum)
Level I (entry)4%—
Level II (qualified)22%—
Level III (experienced)23%—
Level IV (fully competent)51%—

We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.

Who sponsors sales engineers here

EmployerH-1B filingsMedian offerGreen card filings (PERM, this job, US)
Microsoft Corporation25$184,500100
Google LLC14$157,500—
Cisco Systems, Inc.7$122,00033
Snowflake Inc.6$145,5008
Teradata Operations, Inc.4$158,0003
Siemens Industry Software Inc.3$190,00018
Databricks, Inc.3$145,50029
NVIDIA Corporation3$152,00014
Nokia of America Corporation2$144,5004
ServiceNow, Inc.2$134,00010
Keysight Technologies, Inc.2$145,50011
Cotiviti, Inc.2$171,500—
Freshworks Inc.2$145,500—
Wipro Limited2$223,500—
Renesas Electronics America Inc.2$250,0001

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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.