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Software Engineer in Princeton, NJ

Job title · Princeton, New Jersey

Job title as filed
Software Engineer
City
Princeton, New Jersey
Applications FY2022–FY2026
567
Median offered wage
$95,500
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$95,500certified 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 "Software Engineer" and a worksite in Princeton.

Applications by fiscal year

99198FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
99198FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY202273
FY2023138
FY2024198
FY202595
FY2026*63
Certified (decided applications)
99.8%
Employers filing
124
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. Saransh Inc56
  2. GM Software Consulting Inc47
  3. Wall Street Consulting Services LLC34
  4. O3 Technology Solutions LLC27
  5. Bloomberg, LP26
  6. Response Informatics, Inc.22
  7. Synectiks Inc22
  8. Mphasis Corporation17
  9. Ayras Technologies LLC16
  10. Pamten, Inc.15
  11. House of Code, Inc.14
  12. Nexus IT Inc14
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 $95,500; middle half $85,000 to $105,061 · median prevailing wage $89,253 (marker) · 551 applications.

$60k$80k$100k$120k$140k
$60k$80k$100k$120k$140k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I162
  2. Level II368
  3. Level III27
  4. Level IV7
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 Princeton is 27.8% below 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 Princeton
0.4%
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 Princeton job market

Princeton has 9,603 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 2,593 job titles and 1,144 employers; "Software Engineer" ranks #2 by applications, with 5.9% of them.

Applications in Princeton, all job titles
9,603
Job titles filed
2,593
Rank of Software Engineer in Princeton
2
Median offered wage in Princeton, all job titles
$102,093
National median wage, Software Developers (all job titles)
$127,754
Other job titles in Princeton
  1. Software Developer833
  2. Postdoctoral Research Associate444
  3. Associate Research Scholar173
  4. Senior Software Engineer136
  5. Assistant Professor103
  6. Software Engineer/architect83
  7. Data Engineer80
  8. Business Analyst79
  9. Vice President72
  10. Systems Engineer68
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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