Machine Learning Engineer H-1B Salary

3,413 certified H-1B filings list the job title Machine Learning Engineer (FY2023–FY2026). The median offered base salary is $170,000; the middle half of filings fall between $137,000 and $200,000. The largest sponsor for this title is Apple Inc. (489 filings).

3,413
certified filings
$170,000
Median base salary
$137,000
25th pct
$200,000
75th pct
$233,984
90th pct
$110,000
10th pct
Estimates from public U.S. Department of Labor records — wages are employer-attested offered wages, not verified salaries paid; counts are filings, not people. Not legal, financial, or career advice. See our disclaimer & terms.
Data: DOL filings FY2023–FY2026 (through June 2026) · Page updated November 2026
$110,000$170,000 median$233,984

Salary by fiscal year

YearFilingsMedian
FY2026875$173,992
FY20251,100$171,760
FY2024822$170,700
FY2023616$158,080

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
San Jose, CA502$186,000
Cupertino, CA237$196,500
Seattle, WA210$170,000
New York, NY206$155,926
San Francisco, CA202$181,116
Sunnyvale, CA193$192,941
Bellevue, WA145$185,000
Santa Clara, CA96$187,741
San Diego, CA89$126,880
Palo Alto, CA87$174,015
Mountain View, CA86$182,250
Austin, TX55$132,267
Jersey City, NJ52$151,010
Menlo Park, CA43$188,558
Boston, MA35$152,995
Cambridge, MA25$144,000
Chicago, IL25$130,000
Fremont, CA23$172,600
Los Angeles, CA23$158,808
San Mateo, CA23$181,316

Machine Learning Engineer salary by employer

Top 50 sponsors by number of filings. Click a column to sort.

EmployerFilingsMedian salary
Apple Inc.489$188,364
Adobe Inc.421$189,262
SNAP INC.198$176,134
TikTok Inc.152$196,275
ByteDance Inc.128$221,500
Meta Platforms, Inc113$214,000
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.72$126,880
Bloomberg L.P.44$151,819
DoorDash, Inc.44$174,304
Expedia, Inc.36$150,044
Netflix, Inc.33$226,158
Block, Inc.32$210,700
Pinterest, Inc.31$137,259
Cisco Systems, Inc.28$177,600
Reddit, Inc.28$259,780
Zoom Communications, Inc.23$180,710
ServiceNow, Inc.18$150,160
Atlassian US, Inc.17$187,425
Wayve Technologies, Inc16$265,000
Nextdoor, Inc.15$190,000
Uber Technologies, Inc.15$193,600
Dropbox, Inc.14$166,200
Stripe, Inc.14$179,982
AIRBNB, INC.13$166,000
Zillow, Inc.13$160,805
CVS Shared Services Resources LLC12$130,012
Kensho Technologies LLC12$155,000
Waymo LLC12$240,000
Afterpay US, Inc.11$172,900
DocuSign Inc.11$194,580
Maplebear Inc.11$170,000
Moloco, Inc.11$155,400
Red Hat, LLC11$178,131
Autodesk, Inc.10$145,765
PayPal, Inc.10$155,000
Stier Solutions Inc10$102,918
Workday, Inc.10$147,200
Zoom Video Communications, Inc.10$159,671
Boson AI USA Inc.9$250,000
Quantiphi, Inc.9$114,795
Tesla, Inc.9$172,600
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC9$176,000
APPLAB SYSTEMS INC8$102,294
Guidewire Software, Inc.8$152,006
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.8$146,200
Populus Group LLC8$119,683
Schlumberger Technology Corporation8$175,500
Micron Technology, Inc.7$142,725
webAI, Inc7$150,000
ZestFinance, Inc.7$130,000

Related job titles

Senior Machine Learning Engineer $185,000Software Engineer, Machine Learning $186,679Machine Learning Engineer II $159,550Staff Machine Learning Engineer $210,183Principal Machine Learning Engineer $215,197Machine Learning Research Engineer $186,956Machine Learning Engineer I $140,199Machine Learning Engineer III $155,732Lead Machine Learning Engineer $193,290Machine Learning Software Engineer $154,040

Estimates from public U.S. Department of Labor records — wages are employer-attested offered wages, not verified salaries paid. Not legal, financial, or career advice. Full disclaimer