Offered wages

California Department of Transportation — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on California Department of Transportation's certified labor condition applications — 46 positions — grouped into $5,000 bands and cut by occupation and by metro. Percentiles are computed from those bands at read time.

Full filing record

Median offered wage: $87,500
25th percentile: $79,643
75th percentile: $106,389
Occupations: 11

All disclosed wages

The whole distribution, every occupation together. The dashed line is the median, derived from these bands.

25th $79,643 · median $87,500 · 75th $106,389 · 46 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

By occupation

Each SOC code the employer filed under, with its own percentiles derived from its own bands.

Percentiles are computed per occupation from that occupation's bands. They do not average to the figure above, and they are not supposed to — the all-occupations figure is the summed distribution, not the mean of these rows.
Occupation (SOC)	Disclosed positions	25th	Median	75th	Prevailing wage level
17-2051.01 · Transportation Engineers	28	$86,000	$88,333	$106,111	Not stated 28
17-2051.00 · Civil Engineers	4	$120,000	$137,500	$140,000	Not stated 4
19-3099.01 · Transportation Planners	3	$73,750	$86,250	$88,125	Not stated 3
17-2071.00 · Electrical Engineers	2	$87,500	$90,000	$117,500	Not stated 2
15-1299.02 · Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians	2	$77,500	$80,000	$82,500	Not stated 2
13-1023.00 · Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products	2	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	Not stated 2
19-2041.00 · Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	Not stated 1
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	Not stated 1
17-1012.00 · Landscape Architects	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	Not stated 1
15-2051.01 · Business Intelligence Analysts	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	Not stated 1
13-2031.00 · Budget Analysts	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	Not stated 1

Rows with fewer than 5 disclosed positions are shown because they are real filings, but a percentile over that few offers is an anecdote rather than a range. The disclosed-position column is there so you can tell which is which.

Largest occupations in detail

The same bands, drawn. Shape matters: two occupations with the same median can pay very differently at the edges.

17-2051.01 · Transportation Engineers28 disclosed positions · 17 metros

25th $86,000 · median $88,333 · 75th $106,111 · 28 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

By metro area

The same wages cut by where the work is, from the metro half of each stored band key.

Only bands recorded against a named city and state appear here, so these rows can sum to less than the total above.
Metro area	Disclosed positions	25th	Median	75th	Occupations
Sacramento, CA	12	$75,000	$88,333	$108,333	5
Oakland, CA	11	$78,750	$85,500	$88,250	6
Stockton, CA	5	$78,125	$87,500	$108,750	5
Eureka, CA	2	$77,500	$80,000	$87,500	2
Redding, CA	2	$77,500	$80,000	$137,500	2
Bishop, CA	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
Fairfield, CA	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	1
Hayward, CA	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
Los Angeles, CA	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	1
Marysville, CA	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	1
Novato, CA	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
Pacifica, CA	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
Pleasanton, CA	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	1
Richmond, CA	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
San Jose, CA	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
San Luis Obispo, CA	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
Santa Rosa, CA	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
Scotts Valley, CA	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	1
Spring Valley, CA	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	1

Prevailing wage levels

Level I is entry, level IV is fully competent and independent. The level sets the legal floor the offered wage has to clear.

A level-heavy split toward I and II means the roles were filed as junior, whatever the job title says.
Level	Positions	Share
Not stated	46	100.0%

Wages here are the OFFERED WAGE on the labor condition application — a commitment the employer made to the Department of Labor, not anyone’s actual compensation, and it excludes bonus and equity. Every percentile on this page is computed at render time from stored $5,000 band counts (46 positions); no median is stored anywhere in the dataset. How the derivation works.