Software engineering

Software Developers, R&D: who sponsors, and what they pay

Every certified Labor Condition Application for this occupation in the period covered, with the wage each employer told the Department of Labor it would pay.

Certified LCAs
92
H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3
Median wage offered
$111,092
per year
Middle half earn
$96K to $140K
25th to 75th percentile
Employers filing
43

Employers filing for Software Developers, R&D

EmployerLCAsMedian wage
Resolve AI, Inc.
San Francisco
12$240,000
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
7$105,000
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton
6$136,000
Children's Hospital Corporation
Boston
5$105,000
Ithaka Harbors, Inc.
New York
5$117,744
University of Illinois
Urbana
5$83,200
The University of Chicago
Chicago
4$117,796
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Seattle
3$126,197
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
Palo Alto
3$67,829
Old Dominion University
Norfolk
2$100,000
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
2$110,303
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab
Menlo Park
2$133,965
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC
Batavia
2$88,797
University of Utah
Salt Lake City
2$88,711
University of Colorado
Boulder
2$111,920
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Source: US Department of Labor (OFLC) and US Citizenship and Immigration Services · OFLC disclosure data (Labor Condition Applications, PERM) and the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub
Data as of 30 Jun 2026 · covers LCA FY2026 Q1 to Q3; PERM FY2026 Q1 to Q3; USCIS H-1B decisions FY2024 to FY2026 · last fetched 5 Oct 2026