LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Macro Wage Baseline (BLS OEWS May 2023)
Principal Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering (SOC 17-2112.03, Manufacturing Engineers) appears as a limited H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 10 filing records. Filed base wages span $147,447 to $178,651 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $155,750. Filed base wages for this role sit above the BLS occupational wage baseline used as a macro reference. These are filed LCA records for this role, not visa approvals, hires, or open roles, and the figures generally exclude equity, bonus, and benefits.
Principal Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering appears as a limited H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 10 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
The strongest employer filing concentration for this role comes from Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Use this as a filing-volume signal, not as a guarantee of current hiring or petition outcomes.
Filed worksites for this role are concentrated in places such as Fremont, CA, San Jose, CA, Milpitas, CA, and Union City, CA. City-level wage differences can reflect seniority, worksite rules, employer mix, and local labor market differences.
The BLS baseline shown here is a broad occupational wage reference, while the H-1B figure is a filed base wage from LCA records. Neither figure includes equity, bonus, benefits, or every compensation change after filing.
Quartile breakdown of filed annual base wages.