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Chief Operating Officer in San Francisco, CA

Job title · San Francisco, California

Job title as filed
Chief Operating Officer
City
San Francisco, California
Applications FY2022–FY2026
41
Median offered wage
$153,000
Most common occupation
General and Operations Managers
Median wage$153,000certified LCAs
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year

Labor condition applications with the job title "Chief Operating Officer" and a worksite in San Francisco.

Applications by fiscal year

612FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
612FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY20225
FY202310
FY20247
FY202512
FY2026*7
Certified (decided applications)
97.4%
Employers filing
29

Employers

Employers filing for this title in this city.

Applications by employer
  1. Talar, Inc.2
  2. Spot AI, Inc2
  3. Felix Technologies Inc2
  4. Graphwear Technologies Inc.2
  5. Strada API Inc.2
  6. Found Health, Inc.1

Pay

Offered annual wage on certified applications, FY2022–FY2026.

Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)

Median $153,000; middle half $114,629 to $228,218 · median prevailing wage $152,152 (marker) · 37 applications.

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Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I7
  2. Level II15
  3. Level III8
  4. Level IV8

Across the United States

Nationwide, the job title "Chief Operating Officer" appears on 572 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 377 employers for worksites in 200 cities; the median offered wage is $200,000, so the median in San Francisco is 23.5% below it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
572
Employers nationwide
377
Cities with filings
200
National median offered wage
$200,000
Share of national filings in San Francisco
7.2%
Cities with the most applications for Chief Operating Officer
  1. New York City, NY74
  2. San Francisco, CA41
  3. Miami, FL22
  4. Los Angeles, CA18
  5. Austin, TX14
  6. Boston, MA14
  7. Brooklyn, NY13
  8. Berkeley, CA11
  9. Houston, TX7
  10. Santa Monica, CA7

The San Francisco job market

San Francisco has 62,593 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 16,467 job titles and 6,403 employers; "Chief Operating Officer" ranks #152 by applications, with 0.1% of them.

Applications in San Francisco, all job titles
62,593
Job titles filed
16,467
Rank of Chief Operating Officer in San Francisco
152
Median offered wage in San Francisco, all job titles
$167,000
National median wage, General and Operations Managers (all job titles)
$130,000
Other job titles in San Francisco
  1. Software Engineer5,831
  2. Senior Software Engineer2,179
  3. Associate727
  4. Staff Software Engineer723
  5. Software Engineering Smts719
  6. Data Scientist702
  7. Product Manager678
  8. Postdoctoral Scholar642
  9. Engineering Manager520
  10. Member of Technical Staff517