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Staff Engineer in San Francisco, CA

Job title · San Francisco, California

Job title as filed
Staff Engineer
City
San Francisco, California
Applications FY2022–FY2026
72
Median offered wage
$201,500
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$201,500certified 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 "Staff Engineer" and a worksite in San Francisco.

Applications by fiscal year

917FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
917FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY202215
FY202315
FY202417
FY202515
FY2026*10
Certified (decided applications)
100.0%
Employers filing
37
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. Shipt, Inc.9
  2. Lyft, Inc.5
  3. The Gap, Inc.3
  4. Sift Science, Inc.3
  5. Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation3
  6. Climate LLC3
  7. Reddit, Inc.2
  8. Deepgram, Inc.2
  9. Spotify USA, Inc.2
  10. Greenlight Financial Technology, Inc.2
  11. Patreon, Inc.2
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 $201,500; middle half $181,194 to $228,125 · median prevailing wage $181,272 (marker) · 72 applications.

$160k$190k$220k$250k$280k
$160k$190k$220k$250k$280k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I2
  2. Level II10
  3. Level III16
  4. Level IV38
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 "Staff Engineer" appears on 2,456 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 608 employers for worksites in 403 cities; the median offered wage is $157,000, so the median in San Francisco is 28.3% above it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
2,456
Employers nationwide
608
Cities with filings
403
National median offered wage
$157,000
Share of national filings in San Francisco
2.9%
Cities with the most applications for Staff Engineer
  1. San Jose, CA350
  2. Austin, TX208
  3. Palo Alto, CA119
  4. New York City, NY107
  5. San Diego, CA97
  6. Santa Clara, CA72
  7. San Francisco, CA72
  8. Houston, TX59
  9. Sunnyvale, CA54
  10. Seattle, WA37
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; "Staff Engineer" ranks #73 by applications, with 0.1% of them.

Applications in San Francisco, all job titles
62,593
Job titles filed
16,467
Rank of Staff Engineer in San Francisco
73
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. Member of Technical Staff517
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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