Electrical and electronics engineers design and develop electrical equipment, circuits, and electronic systems. Based on 59,260 certified H-1B and PERM filings from U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data, the median sponsored salary for a Electrical & Electronics Engineer is $102,606 per year.
| Percentile | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| 10th (entry) | $75,000 |
| 25th | $85,506 |
| 50th (median) | $102,606 |
| 75th | $124,176 |
| 90th (senior) | $150,000 |
Every other salary site shows the LCA-posted wage — the wage for the position. Using USCIS I-129 petition data, we can compare that against the actual pay the sponsored worker received, and the prevailing-wage floor, across 10,282 matched Electrical & Electronics Engineers petitions.
The median worker is paid 6.4% above the posted LCA wage, but the mean actual pay runs 12.5% above the mean posted wage — so the upside is concentrated in the top earners. 42.0% are paid above their posted wage, 56.5% at it, and 1.5% below.
Actual-pay data covers FY2021–FY2024 cap-subject H-1B lottery petitions matched to certified LCAs (aggregates only). Base wage excludes equity and bonuses, so it is not total compensation. Source: I-129 petition data sourced from USCIS, obtained by Bloomberg.
Of 59,260 filings, 1,196 are H-1B (temporary work visa) and 58,064 are PERM (green-card labor certification, 98% of the total).
| # | Employer | Filings | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intel Corporation | 8,029 | $97,483 |
| 2 | APPLE INC. | 2,951 | $138,220 |
| 3 | Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. | 2,862 | $110,501 |
| 4 | NVIDIA Corporation | 2,029 | $144,365 |
| 5 | Broadcom Corporation | 1,083 | $114,671 |
| 6 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC. (AMD) | 993 | $115,045 |
| 7 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED | 928 | $101,592 |
| 8 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 827 | $100,243 |
| 9 | Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. | 781 | $108,617 |
| 10 | Synopsys, Inc. | 745 | $123,467 |
| 11 | General Motors Financial Company, Inc. | 507 | $100,567 |
| 12 | CUMMINS INC. | 484 | $86,783 |
| 13 | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. | 388 | $131,098 |
| 14 | Microsoft Corporation | 378 | $143,280 |
| 15 | ANALOG DEVICES INC. | 364 | $102,337 |
| 16 | Oracle America, Inc. | 341 | $112,023 |
| 17 | TELECOM TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, INC. | 337 | $105,025 |
| 18 | Xilinx, Inc. | 332 | $133,525 |
| 19 | ARM, INC. | 330 | $127,692 |
| 20 | INTEL MASSACHUSETTS, INC. | 321 | $93,910 |
| State | Filings | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|
| California | 28,703 | $113,175 |
| Texas | 5,709 | $103,574 |
| Michigan | 2,661 | $88,123 |
| Massachusetts | 1,604 | $101,273 |
| Oregon | 1,199 | $94,503 |
| Illinois | 1,002 | $86,816 |
| Arizona | 949 | $92,740 |
| Washington | 942 | $101,393 |
| Virginia | 919 | $96,445 |
| New Jersey | 892 | $94,983 |
| New York | 891 | $91,105 |
| North Carolina | 833 | $97,780 |
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Salaries are the certified offered annual wage on public U.S. Department of Labor H-1B (LCA) and PERM disclosure filings, not a guarantee of pay. Occupation is the DOL-assigned Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code.