Role Filing Pattern
Hardware Engineer appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 70 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Hardware Engineer H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 17-2061.00
SOC Category: Computer Hardware Engineers
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Hardware Engineer (SOC 17-2061.00, Computer Hardware Engineers) appears as an active H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 70 filing records. Filed base wages span $84,781 to $211,120 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $202,332. These are filed LCA records for this role, not visa approvals, hires, or open roles, and the figures generally exclude equity, bonus, and benefits.
Median Salary
$202,332
H-1B LCA Filings
70LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$211,120
LCA filings are not visa approvals or open roles — see why this matters
Public filing data is normalized for browsing. LCA filings are not visa approvals or job openings, PERM filings are not individual green-card success rates, and salary figures generally use the lower bound of filed wage ranges and exclude equity, bonus, and benefits.
Employer Concentration
The strongest employer filing concentration for this role comes from Cisco Systems, Inc., Google LLC, L&T Technology Services Limited, Meta Platforms, Inc, and Intel Corporation. Use this as a filing-volume signal, not as a guarantee of current hiring or petition outcomes.
Location Pattern
Filed worksites for this role are concentrated in places such as Santa Clara, CA, Mountain View, CA, San Diego, CA, San Jose, CA, and Sunnyvale, CA. City-level wage differences can reflect seniority, worksite rules, employer mix, and local labor market differences.
Salary Caveat
The median shown here is a filed base wage signal from public LCA records. It generally excludes equity, bonus, benefits, and compensation changes after filing.
Salary Distribution (Base)
LCA filingsQuartile breakdown of filed annual base wages.
Min$84,781
P25$107,593
Median$202,332
P75$178,006
Max$211,120
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- 9
- Google LLC$168,5599
- 7
- 5
- Intel Corporation$170,8924
- 4
- Vimerse InfoTech Inc$115,2533
- 2
- 2
- 2
- Juniper Networks, Inc.$171,6632
- Waymo LLC$219,0001
- HL Mando America Corporation$135,4631
- Teradyne$129,3151
Filed Wage by City
- Sunnyvale, CA$204,1174
- San Francisco, CA$199,7633
- Mountain View, CA$171,7806
- Chicago, IL$157,0001
- Bay City, MI$135,4631
- Canoga Park, CA$115,2533
- Chandler, AZ$101,3581
- Florence, SC$92,2483
- Chillicothe, IL$84,3021
- Peoria, IL$84,3021
- 14
- 4
- San Jose, CAN/A4
- Milpitas, CAN/A2
- Austin, TXN/A2
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Hardware Engineer?
The median filed base salary for Hardware Engineer H-1B LCA records is $202,332 per year.
How many Hardware Engineer H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 70 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Hardware Engineer role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Hardware Engineer?
Top employers filing LCAs for Hardware Engineer include: Cisco Systems, Inc., Google LLC, L&T Technology Services Limited.
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