4,021 certified filings · FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3)
Reported wages are what employers filed with the Department of Labor — not actual take-home pay. One LCA is not one job.
FY2025 median, from the 737 filings that reported a wage (of 4,021 certified filings in total) across all employers and levels. DOL LCA · FY2025
| Fiscal year | Filed wage | Wage sample (n) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 (through Q3) | $135,100 median of 584 | 584 |
| FY2025 | $133,939 median of 737 | 737 |
| FY2024 | $133,000 median of 680 | 680 |
| FY2023 | $135,000 median of 698 | 698 |
| FY2022 | $135,000 median of 792 | 792 |
| FY2021 | $126,536 median of 525 | 525 |
How these wages are computed · All cities · All job titles
Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035) · Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Updated 2026-08-28 · Basis certified filings only, median not average
Staff Site Reliability Engineer filings (n = 224) have a median 23% above the 1,907 filings with no level stated. A single figure for “Site Reliability Engineer” averages those together, which overstates the junior end and understates the senior end. We never merge them.
| Level as filed | Filed wage | Wage sample (n) |
|---|---|---|
| Junior | 5 filings — too few for a median | 5 |
| Associate | $130,000 median of 118 | 118 |
| (unstated) | $121,333 median of 1,907 | 1,907 |
| Senior | $146,800 median of 1,145 | 1,145 |
| Lead | $141,378 median of 141 | 141 |
| Staff | $149,781 median of 224 | 224 |
| Principal | $160,281 median of 177 | 177 |
| Level 1 | $110,000 median of 25 | 25 |
| Level 2 | $135,000 median of 156 | 156 |
| Level 3 | $136,308 median of 106 | 106 |
| Level 4 | $151,410 median of 11 | 11 |
| Level 5 | $148,845 1 filing | 1 |
“Level as filed” is taken from the job title on the filing itself — we do not infer a level that the employer did not write down. Rows below 10filings show the count only; a median from a handful of filings is not a market rate. “(unstated)” means the title carried no level, not that the role is junior.
Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035, level read from the job title as filed) ·Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) · Updated 2026-08-28 ·Basis certified filings only; medians, not averages
| Employer | Filed wage | Wage sample (n) |
|---|---|---|
| Visa Technology & Operations LLC | $119,100 median of 171 | 171 |
| Microsoft Corporation | $157,674 median of 138 | 138 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | $130,000 median of 133 | 133 |
| Akamai Technologies, Inc. | $150,817 median of 78 | 78 |
| Cisco Systems, Inc. | $130,900 median of 75 | 75 |
| Cohesity, Inc. | $123,149 median of 57 | 57 |
| Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | $184,080 median of 56 | 56 |
| VMware, Inc. | $166,325 median of 48 | 48 |
| Fidelity Investments | $125,029 median of 43 | 43 |
| Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC | $170,000 median of 33 | 33 |
| F5, Inc. | $175,770 median of 30 | 30 |
| Box, Inc. | $167,710 median of 28 | 28 |
| ByteDance | $168,000 median of 27 | 27 |
| Chewy, Inc. | $137,550 median of 26 | 26 |
| Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. | $127,691 median of 26 | 26 |
| FIS Management Services, LLC | $141,419 median of 25 | 25 |
| LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Inc. | $130,000 median of 24 | 24 |
| Adobe Inc. | $143,189 median of 24 | 24 |
| Grubhub Holdings, Inc. | $152,750 median of 22 | 22 |
| Okta, Inc. | $137,519 median of 22 | 22 |
| Twitter, Inc. | $174,965 median of 22 | 22 |
| Zscaler, Inc. | $161,900 median of 22 | 22 |
| NIKE, Inc. | $139,500 median of 22 | 22 |
| Alibaba Cloud US LLC | $153,962 median of 21 | 21 |
Ranked by number of filings, not by pay and not by quality. This is not a “best employers” list. 1,086 employers in total filed for this role; the 24 above are those with the most filings. Those with at least 10 certified filings have their own page; the rest are counted here but do not.
Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035) · Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Updated 2026-08-28 ·Basis filings counted across the whole coverage period, not one year
We build a page only for roles we can classify with confidence. The filings we do not classify are mostly three things: employer-internal job codes (“Manager JC50”), generic words that would make a useless page (“Analyst”, “Associate”), and spellings that appear only a handful of times. None of those can be grouped reliably —so we do not guess. To see every role at one company, use its employer page.
For the record: 866,533 of 3,034,814 certified filings (28.6%) reduce to one of our 29 role pages. That percentage on its own would mislead — the remainder is not a missing 71% of the job market, it is mostly text that cannot become a page.
Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035) · Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Updated 2026-08-28 ·Basis certified filings with a job title, across the whole coverage period