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Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco, CA

Job title · San Francisco, California

Job title as filed
Member of Technical Staff
City
San Francisco, California
Applications FY2022–FY2026
517
Median offered wage
$213,512
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$213,512certified 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 "Member of Technical Staff" and a worksite in San Francisco.

Applications by fiscal year

144287FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
144287FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY202213
FY202320
FY202473
FY2025124
FY2026*287
Certified (decided applications)
99.2%
Employers filing
97
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Employers

Employers filing for this title in this city.

Applications by employer
  1. Anthropic, PBC156
  2. OpenAI OpCo, LLC39
  3. Thinking Machines Lab Inc.37
  4. Amazon.com Services LLC24
  5. Reflection AI, Inc.19
  6. Cartesia AI, Inc.15
  7. Perplexity AI, Inc.13
  8. World Labs Technologies, Inc.10
  9. Hooglee Corp.10
  10. WaveForms AI, Inc.8
  11. Databricks, Inc.6
  12. Magic AI, Inc.6
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Pay

Offered annual wage on certified applications, FY2022–FY2026.

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

Median $213,512; middle half $187,574 to $300,000 · median prevailing wage $187,574 (marker) · 493 applications.

$160k$210k$260k$310k$360k
$160k$210k$260k$310k$360k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I29
  2. Level II131
  3. Level III150
  4. Level IV199
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Across the United States

Nationwide, the job title "Member of Technical Staff" appears on 2,591 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 298 employers for worksites in 149 cities; the median offered wage is $170,000, so the median in San Francisco is 25.6% above it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
2,591
Employers nationwide
298
Cities with filings
149
National median offered wage
$170,000
Share of national filings in San Francisco
20.0%
Cities with the most applications for Member of Technical Staff
  1. San Francisco, CA517
  2. San Jose, CA446
  3. Palo Alto, CA440
  4. Santa Clara, CA190
  5. New York City, NY105
  6. Austin, TX89
  7. Sunnyvale, CA67
  8. Mountain View, CA67
  9. Seattle, WA57
  10. Durham, NC45
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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; "Member of Technical Staff" ranks #10 by applications, with 0.8% of them.

Applications in San Francisco, all job titles
62,593
Job titles filed
16,467
Rank of Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco
10
Median offered wage in San Francisco, all job titles
$167,000
National median wage, Software Developers (all job titles)
$127,754
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. Software Engineering Lmts481
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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