H-1B Salary Lookup

Senior Staff Software Engineer H-1B Salary by Company

264 certified full-time H-1B filings for "Senior Staff Software Engineer" and close variants, decided Jul 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2026. Most common occupation codes: Software Developers, Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers, Computer and Information Systems Managers.

$199,098Median salary
$165,00025th percentile
$239,87475th percentile
264Filings

Top-paying companies for Senior Staff Software Engineer

Employers with at least 3 filings for this title, ranked by median offered salary.

CompanyFilingsMedianMiddle 50%
Google3$329,000$323,500 – $352,000
Social Finance5$272,950$270,000 – $275,000
eBay3$265,000$235,335 – $267,500
LinkedIn6$264,514$231,878 – $264,514
Intuit28$242,193$227,209 – $264,324
PayPal17$240,000$234,151 – $257,068
ServiceNow14$239,033$212,202 – $239,841
Nordic Semiconductor3$226,138$226,138 – $226,138
Qualcomm Atheros7$196,409$190,692 – $198,384
Qualcomm Technologies17$184,459$177,154 – $187,285
Qualcomm Innovation Center5$184,459$181,867 – $184,974
Gap7$184,330$173,200 – $187,574
Palo Alto Networks18$179,396$152,248 – $182,994
Ping Identity3$164,863$161,432 – $168,666
Deere & Company3$155,000$152,600 – $186,000
Stryker3$153,358$139,246 – $155,178
CSAA Insurance Services9$142,400$142,400 – $142,400
Blue Yonder3$142,184$142,184 – $149,591
Hartford Fire Insurance Company15$135,408$134,800 – $154,669
Magna Electronics3$120,349$117,520 – $120,349

Companies filing the most Senior Staff Software Engineer H-1Bs

CompanyFilingsMedianMiddle 50%
Intuit28$242,193$227,209 – $264,324
Palo Alto Networks18$179,396$152,248 – $182,994
PayPal17$240,000$234,151 – $257,068
Qualcomm Technologies17$184,459$177,154 – $187,285
Hartford Fire Insurance Company15$135,408$134,800 – $154,669
ServiceNow14$239,033$212,202 – $239,841
CSAA Insurance Services9$142,400$142,400 – $142,400
Gap7$184,330$173,200 – $187,574
Qualcomm Atheros7$196,409$190,692 – $198,384
LinkedIn6$264,514$231,878 – $264,514
Qualcomm Innovation Center5$184,459$181,867 – $184,974
Social Finance5$272,950$270,000 – $275,000
Blue Yonder3$142,184$142,184 – $149,591
Deere & Company3$155,000$152,600 – $186,000
Google3$329,000$323,500 – $352,000

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
Santa Clara, CA38$190,481
San Jose, CA24$241,746
Mountain View, CA23$242,193
San Diego, CA20$184,974
San Francisco, CA18$240,446
Hartford, CT11$154,669
New York, NY9$252,750
Sunnyvale, CA9$264,514
Glendale, AZ7$142,400
Austin, TX6$163,775
Coppell, TX5$156,998
Pleasanton, CA5$213,512
Charlotte, NC4$134,800
Fremont, CA4$235,648
Southfield, MI3$120,349

Wage levels

Level I1% · 1
Level II2% · 3
Level III25% · 47
Level IV73% · 136

Prevailing-wage level the employer selected (I = entry, IV = fully competent).