Member of Technical Staff H-1B Salary

2,416 certified H-1B filings list the job title Member of Technical Staff (FY2023–FY2026). The median offered base salary is $189,592; the middle half of filings fall between $160,000 and $240,000. The largest sponsor for this title is PURE STORAGE, INC. (332 filings).

2,416
certified filings
$189,592
Median base salary
$160,000
25th pct
$240,000
75th pct
$320,000
90th pct
$140,000
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
$140,000$189,592 median$320,000

Salary by fiscal year

YearFilingsMedian
FY2026889$210,000
FY2025632$200,000
FY2024440$185,000
FY2023455$160,000

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
San Francisco, CA560$245,000
Santa Clara, CA305$184,662
San Jose, CA296$175,440
Palo Alto, CA161$187,741
Mountain View, CA101$178,040
New York, NY96$189,592
Sunnyvale, CA81$163,328
Austin, TX57$150,000
Bellevue, WA50$193,000
Seattle, WA39$188,000
San Mateo, CA31$230,000
Livermore, CA28$175,086
Durham, NC23$131,811
Cupertino, CA21$176,696
Fremont, CA20$182,980
Menlo Park, CA20$184,636
Milpitas, CA19$192,941
Brooklyn, NY17$189,592
San Diego, CA16$109,285
Berkeley, CA13$208,000

Member of Technical Staff salary by employer

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

EmployerFilingsMedian salary
PURE STORAGE, INC.332$190,000
OpenAI OpCo, LLC243$310,000
Nutanix, Inc.235$172,800
Anthropic, PBC225$213,512
VMware, Inc.128$150,000
MIRAFRA INC81$129,800
Rivos Inc.75$170,000
Everpure, Inc.60$177,188
X.AI LLC46$275,000
Anthropic, PBC d/b/a Anthropic, Inc.31$320,000
Thinking Machines Lab Inc.30$194,834
Amazon.com Services LLC29$275,000
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC29$182,801
athenahealth, Inc.26$118,753
Illumio, Inc.26$146,307
Reflection AI, Inc.26$186,648
Perplexity AI, Inc.21$206,315
Cohesity, Inc.20$164,000
Cohere US, Inc.17$240,000
Pragiti Inc.17$120,000
RadixArk, Inc.15$209,082
Cartesia AI, Inc.14$282,500
Nile Global, Inc.14$254,928
Etched.ai, Inc.13$215,592
Augment Computing, Inc.11$255,000
Contextual AI Inc.11$227,000
Forward Networks, Inc.11$187,741
Theom Inc.11$170,248
Databricks, Inc.10$206,950
Reinforce Labs Inc.10$180,000
World Labs Technologies, Inc.10$232,500
Adept AI Labs Inc.9$183,310
Omnissa, LLC9$196,211
X Corp.9$200,000
Hooglee Corp.8$275,000
Kognitos, Inc.8$160,000
Parallel Web Systems, Inc.8$200,000
Butler Labs, Inc.7$255,000
DevRev Inc.7$150,000
Fireworks.ai, Inc.7$290,000
Nuvacore Inc.7$182,534
Opusclip Inc.7$165,000
Redwood Research Group Inc.7$180,000
Revefi, Inc.7$165,000
WaveForms AI, Inc.7$300,000
Wisdom AI, Inc.7$230,000
11x AI Inc.6$185,000
Magic AI, Inc.6$256,756
Modal Labs, Inc.6$181,000
Prophet Security, Inc.6$168,870

Related job titles

Senior Member of Technical Staff $185,000Principal Member of Technical Staff $195,811Lead Member of Technical Staff $185,598Member of Technical Staff 3 $160,389Member Technical Staff, Software Engineer $158,674Chief of Staff $172,620Staff Technical Program Manager $179,712Senior Staff Technical Program Manager $209,591Technical Lead $96,366Technical Architect $120,328

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