Offered wages

Western Digital Technologies, Inc. — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s certified labor condition applications — 1,222 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: $148,654
25th percentile: $116,186
75th percentile: $158,814
Occupations: 19

All disclosed wages

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

25th $116,186 · median $148,654 · 75th $158,814 · 1,222 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	285	$109,351	$138,702	$175,564	I 6 · IV 2 · Not stated 13
17-2072.00 · Electronics Engineers, Except Computer	181	$113,702	$122,500	$166,298	I 6 · II 2 · III 2 · Not stated 3
17-2141.00 · Mechanical Engineers	105	$145,048	$150,093	$154,954	II 2 · III 2 · Not stated 5
17-2131.00 · Materials Engineers	104	$105,000	$135,000	$155,000	I 2 · II 4 · III 2
15-1253.00 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers	102	$94,904	$99,808	$152,450	I 2 · II 2 · IV 2
17-2112.03 · Manufacturing Engineers	78	$98,750	$147,500	$166,250	I 2 · III 2 · Not stated 2
17-2112.00 · Industrial Engineers	78	$108,750	$112,500	$116,250	I 2 · II 2 · Not stated 2
19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists	52	$151,250	$152,500	$153,750	II 2 · Not stated 2
15-1299.09 · Information Technology Project Managers	27	$206,106	$207,404	$208,702	IV 3
15-2051.01 · Business Intelligence Analysts	26	$181,250	$182,500	$183,750	IV 2
13-2051.00 · Financial and Investment Analysts	26	$181,250	$182,500	$183,750	IV 2
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	26	$171,250	$172,500	$173,750	Not stated 2
17-2061.00 · Computer Hardware Engineers	26	$136,250	$137,500	$138,750	I 2
17-2112.02 · Validation Engineers	26	$121,250	$122,500	$123,750	II 2
11-3061.00 · Purchasing Managers	26	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	Not stated 2
17-2199.09 · Nanosystems Engineers	25	$166,250	$167,500	$168,750	III 1
17-2199.08 · Robotics Engineers	25	$151,250	$152,500	$153,750	II 1
11-3071.04 · Supply Chain Managers	2	$186,250	$187,500	$188,750	IV 2
15-1212.00 · Information Security Analysts	2	$107,500	$110,000	$172,500	II 1 · 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 Developers285 disclosed positions · 8 metros

25th $109,351 · median $138,702 · 75th $175,564 · 285 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.

17-2072.00 · Electronics Engineers, Except Computer181 disclosed positions · 6 metros

25th $113,702 · median $122,500 · 75th $166,298 · 181 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 Engineers105 disclosed positions · 5 metros

25th $145,048 · median $150,093 · 75th $154,954 · 105 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
San Jose, CA	613	$124,832	$149,760	$159,750	12
Fremont, CA	230	$117,990	$151,154	$156,750	6
Irvine, CA	178	$108,750	$176,200	$181,250	4
Roseville, CA	102	$94,904	$139,808	$152,450	2
Colorado Springs, CO	52	$92,500	$95,000	$97,500	2
Longmont, CO	25	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	1
Santa Clara, CA	3	$158,750	$172,500	$181,250	3
Campbell, CA	2	$151,250	$152,500	$153,750	1
Fairfax, CA	2	$186,250	$187,500	$188,750	1
Milpitas, CA	2	$137,500	$140,000	$152,500	1
Chino, CA	1	$176,250	$177,500	$178,750	1
Cleveland, OH	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	1
Cupertino, CA	1	$156,250	$157,500	$158,750	1
Denver, CO	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	1
Eastvale, CA	1	$206,250	$207,500	$208,750	1
Gilroy, CA	1	$166,250	$167,500	$168,750	1
Katy, TX	1	$136,250	$137,500	$138,750	1
Livermore, CA	1	$221,250	$222,500	$223,750	1
Plainsboro, NJ	1	$171,250	$172,500	$173,750	1
Pleasanton, CA	1	$131,250	$132,500	$133,750	1
Sunnyvale, CA	1	$156,250	$157,500	$158,750	1
Walnut, CA	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	1
Watsonville, CA	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	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	22	23.4%
Level II	18	19.1%
Level III	9	9.6%
Level IV	14	14.9%
Not stated	31	33.0%

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 (1,222 positions); no median is stored anywhere in the dataset. How the derivation works.