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Senior Member of Technical Staff in Palo Alto, CA

Job title · Palo Alto, California

Job title as filed
Senior Member of Technical Staff
City
Palo Alto, California
Applications FY2022–FY2026
170
Median offered wage
$185,500
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$185,500certified 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 "Senior Member of Technical Staff" and a worksite in Palo Alto.

Applications by fiscal year

4386FY2022FY2023FY2024
4386FY2022FY2023FY2024
Data table
FY202286
FY202373
FY202411
Certified (decided applications)
100.0%
Employers filing
5
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. Vmware, Inc.162
  2. AT&T Services, Inc.4
  3. Pivotal Software, Inc.2
  4. Salesforce, Inc.1
  5. Mirafra Inc.1
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 $185,500; middle half $175,952 to $195,434 · median prevailing wage $159,383 (marker) · 168 applications.

$160k$175k$190k$205k$220k
$160k$175k$190k$205k$220k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level II3
  2. Level III116
  3. Level IV22
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 "Senior Member of Technical Staff" appears on 816 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 38 employers for worksites in 100 cities; the median offered wage is $180,000, so the median in Palo Alto is 3.1% above it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
816
Employers nationwide
38
Cities with filings
100
National median offered wage
$180,000
Share of national filings in Palo Alto
20.8%
Cities with the most applications for Senior Member of Technical Staff
  1. Palo Alto, CA170
  2. San Jose, CA159
  3. Austin, TX48
  4. Mountain View, CA42
  5. Santa Clara, CA39
  6. Boston, MA30
  7. Seattle, WA25
  8. Sunnyvale, CA23
  9. Bellevue, WA22
  10. Middletown, NJ21
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

The Palo Alto job market

Palo Alto has 16,821 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 4,724 job titles and 1,179 employers; "Senior Member of Technical Staff" ranks #8 by applications, with 1.0% of them.

Applications in Palo Alto, all job titles
16,821
Job titles filed
4,724
Rank of Senior Member of Technical Staff in Palo Alto
8
Median offered wage in Palo Alto, all job titles
$173,925
National median wage, Software Developers (all job titles)
$127,754
Other job titles in Palo Alto
  1. Software Engineer898
  2. Member of Technical Staff440
  3. Senior Software Engineer419
  4. Software Development Engineer II360
  5. Applied Scientist II205
  6. Senior Developer181
  7. R&D Engineer Software181
  8. Staff Software Engineer161
  9. SR. Software Engineer156
  10. Developer149
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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