Offered wages

Starbucks Coffee Company — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Starbucks Coffee Company's certified labor condition applications — 58 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: $170,000
25th percentile: $145,500
75th percentile: $188,125
Occupations: 18

All disclosed wages

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

25th $145,500 · median $170,000 · 75th $188,125 · 58 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	18	$162,500	$177,500	$188,750	II 1 · IV 3 · Not stated 14
15-1299.08 · Computer Systems Engineers/Architects	9	$145,625	$156,250	$176,875	II 4 · III 4 · IV 1
15-1211.00 · Computer Systems Analysts	6	$156,250	$160,000	$178,750	II 1 · III 1 · IV 2 · Not stated 2
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	5	$151,250	$177,500	$188,750	II 2 · III 2 · IV 1
15-1299.09 · Information Technology Project Managers	4	$190,000	$195,000	$205,000	III 1 · IV 3
11-3071.04 · Supply Chain Managers	2	$152,500	$155,000	$372,500	III 1 · IV 1
15-1299.05 · Information Security Engineers	2	$147,500	$150,000	$162,500	II 1 · III 1
15-1253.00 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers	2	$132,500	$135,000	$157,500	III 2
11-2032.00 · Public Relations Managers	1	$221,250	$222,500	$223,750	IV 1
11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers	1	$216,250	$217,500	$218,750	II 1
11-3051.00 · Industrial Production Managers	1	$196,250	$197,500	$198,750	III 1
15-1255.00 · Web and Digital Interface Designers	1	$141,250	$142,500	$143,750	III 1
15-1212.00 · Information Security Analysts	1	$141,250	$142,500	$143,750	II 1
15-1241.00 · Computer Network Architects	1	$136,250	$137,500	$138,750	II 1
13-1082.00 · Project Management Specialists	1	$136,250	$137,500	$138,750	III 1
15-2031.00 · Operations Research Analysts	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	III 1
15-1143.00 · Computer Network Architects	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	II 1
27-1025.00 · Interior Designers	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	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 Developers18 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $162,500 · median $177,500 · 75th $188,750 · 18 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.

15-1299.08 · Computer Systems Engineers/Architects9 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $145,625 · median $156,250 · 75th $176,875 · 9 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.

15-1211.00 · Computer Systems Analysts6 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $156,250 · median $160,000 · 75th $178,750 · 6 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
Seattle, WA	57	$145,250	$171,250	$188,438	18
Glendale, AZ	1	$161,250	$162,500	$163,750	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 II	13	22.4%
Level III	16	27.6%
Level IV	13	22.4%
Not stated	16	27.6%

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