Offered wages

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.'s certified labor condition applications — 102 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: $161,667
25th percentile: $139,063
75th percentile: $187,500
Occupations: 25

All disclosed wages

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

25th $139,063 · median $161,667 · 75th $187,500 · 102 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
15-1252.00 · Software Developers	19	$168,750	$205,625	$226,250	I 1 · II 2 · III 2 · Not stated 14
17-2141.00 · Mechanical Engineers	13	$131,250	$144,167	$173,750	II 2 · III 3 · Not stated 8
17-2112.03 · Manufacturing Engineers	11	$124,375	$149,167	$160,625	II 1 · III 2 · IV 4 · Not stated 4
17-2112.00 · Industrial Engineers	10	$124,167	$140,000	$171,875	II 2 · III 1 · IV 5 · Not stated 2
17-2031.00 · Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers	6	$136,250	$140,000	$191,250	III 1 · IV 2 · Not stated 3
15-1253.00 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers	5	$151,250	$167,500	$173,750	II 2 · IV 1 · Not stated 2
11-3071.04 · Supply Chain Managers	4	$186,667	$188,333	$190,000	IV 1 · Not stated 3
11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers	4	$180,000	$185,000	$217,500	III 1 · Not stated 3
15-1211.00 · Computer Systems Analysts	4	$140,000	$145,000	$155,000	III 1 · Not stated 3
13-2051.00 · Financial and Investment Analysts	4	$130,000	$137,500	$140,000	IV 1 · Not stated 3
13-1041.07 · Regulatory Affairs Specialists	4	$115,000	$120,000	$160,000	II 1 · III 1 · IV 2
11-3051.00 · Industrial Production Managers	2	$181,250	$182,500	$183,750	III 1 · Not stated 1
17-2199.08 · Robotics Engineers	2	$167,500	$170,000	$187,500	III 1 · IV 1
17-2072.00 · Electronics Engineers, Except Computer	2	$152,500	$155,000	$172,500	III 1 · IV 1
15-2051.01 · Business Intelligence Analysts	2	$122,500	$125,000	$157,500	I 1 · Not stated 1
11-9041.00 · Architectural and Engineering Managers	1	$211,250	$212,500	$213,750	II 1
15-1242.00 · Database Administrators	1	$206,250	$207,500	$208,750	IV 1
15-1299.09 · Information Technology Project Managers	1	$191,250	$192,500	$193,750	Not stated 1
15-1244.00 · Network and Computer Systems Administrators	1	$171,250	$172,500	$173,750	IV 1
17-2061.00 · Computer Hardware Engineers	1	$151,250	$152,500	$153,750	III 1
13-1081.00 · Logisticians	1	$151,250	$152,500	$153,750	IV 1
13-1081.02 · Logistics Analysts	1	$141,250	$142,500	$143,750	IV 1
19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientist	1	$136,250	$137,500	$138,750	IV 1
13-1199.05 · Sustainability Specialists	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	IV 1
13-1071.00 · Human Resources Specialists	1	$121,250	$122,500	$123,750	IV 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.

15-1252.00 · Software Developers19 disclosed positions · 3 metros

25th $168,750 · median $205,625 · 75th $226,250 · 19 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.

17-2141.00 · Mechanical Engineers13 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $131,250 · median $144,167 · 75th $173,750 · 13 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.

17-2112.03 · Manufacturing Engineers11 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $124,375 · median $149,167 · 75th $160,625 · 11 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
Sunnyvale, CA	90	$141,500	$166,250	$189,583	22
Peachtree Corners, GA	5	$122,083	$124,167	$138,750	3
Blacksburg, VA	1	$151,250	$152,500	$153,750	1
Bothell, WA	1	$151,250	$152,500	$153,750	1
Cary, NC	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	1
Durham, NC	1	$176,250	$177,500	$178,750	1
Kirkland, WA	1	$171,250	$172,500	$173,750	1
Santa Clara, CA	1	$186,250	$187,500	$188,750	1
Sunyvale, CA	1	$136,250	$137,500	$138,750	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
Level I	2	2.0%
Level II	11	10.8%
Level III	16	15.7%
Level IV	25	24.5%
Not stated	48	47.1%

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 (102 positions); no median is stored anywhere in the dataset. How the derivation works.