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Software Engineer in Mountain View, CA

Job title · Mountain View, California

Job title as filed
Software Engineer
City
Mountain View, California
Applications FY2022–FY2026
11,923
Median offered wage
$180,000
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$180,000certified 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 "Software Engineer" and a worksite in Mountain View.

Applications by fiscal year

1,3022,603FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
1,3022,603FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY20222,578
FY20232,579
FY20242,603
FY20252,337
FY2026*1,826
Certified (decided applications)
99.8%
Employers filing
235
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. Google LLC9,106
  2. Microsoft Corporation741
  3. Waymo LLC560
  4. Intuit Inc.186
  5. Databricks, Inc.160
  6. Nuro, Inc.122
  7. Applied Intuition, Inc.114
  8. Bytedance Inc.45
  9. Verily Life Sciences LLC40
  10. DoorDash, Inc.38
  11. TikTok Inc.34
  12. Atlassian, Inc.33
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 $180,000; middle half $157,000 to $199,000 · median prevailing wage $157,477 (marker) · 11,733 applications.

$140k$165k$190k$215k$240k
$140k$165k$190k$215k$240k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I389
  2. Level II5,624
  3. Level III1,967
  4. Level IV392
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 "Software Engineer" appears on 158,483 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 11,784 employers for worksites in 2,549 cities; the median offered wage is $132,267, so the median in Mountain View is 36.1% above it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
158,483
Employers nationwide
11,784
Cities with filings
2,549
National median offered wage
$132,267
Share of national filings in Mountain View
7.5%
Cities with the most applications for Software Engineer
  1. Mountain View, CA11,923
  2. Redmond, WA9,634
  3. Sunnyvale, CA9,088
  4. New York City, NY7,682
  5. Menlo Park, CA6,399
  6. San Francisco, CA5,831
  7. Seattle, WA5,057
  8. Bellevue, WA4,743
  9. Irving, TX3,499
  10. San Jose, CA2,964
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

The Mountain View job market

Mountain View has 32,943 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 6,870 job titles and 1,462 employers; "Software Engineer" ranks #1 by applications, with 36.2% of them.

Applications in Mountain View, all job titles
32,943
Job titles filed
6,870
Rank of Software Engineer in Mountain View
1
Median offered wage in Mountain View, all job titles
$178,755
National median wage, Software Developers (all job titles)
$127,754
Other job titles in Mountain View
  1. Senior Software Engineer942
  2. Software Engineering913
  3. Research Scientist439
  4. Staff Software Engineer419
  5. Product Manager418
  6. Data Scientist415
  7. Technical Program Manager372
  8. Silicon Engineer250
  9. Program Manager210
  10. Hardware Engineer205
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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