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Staff Software Engineer in Seattle, WA

Job title · Seattle, Washington

Job title as filed
Staff Software Engineer
City
Seattle, Washington
Applications FY2022–FY2026
259
Median offered wage
$207,000
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$207,000certified 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 "Staff Software Engineer" and a worksite in Seattle.

Applications by fiscal year

3467FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
3467FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY202250
FY202347
FY202452
FY202567
FY2026*43
Certified (decided applications)
100.0%
Employers filing
64

Employers

Employers filing for this title in this city.

Applications by employer
  1. Uber Technologies, Inc.46
  2. Social Finance, Inc.27
  3. Indeed, Inc.26
  4. Coupang Global LLC20
  5. Airbnb, Inc.18
  6. Pinterest, Inc.10
  7. Google LLC10
  8. Galileo Financial Technologies8
  9. Databricks, Inc.6
  10. Outreach Corporation6
  11. People Center, Inc.4
  12. Wal-mart Associates, Inc.3

Pay

Offered annual wage on certified applications, FY2022–FY2026.

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

Median $207,000; middle half $184,000 to $240,000 · median prevailing wage $178,069 (marker) · 255 applications.

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Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I1
  2. Level II15
  3. Level III61
  4. Level IV180

Across the United States

Nationwide, the job title "Staff Software Engineer" appears on 8,042 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 1,030 employers for worksites in 547 cities; the median offered wage is $181,272, so the median in Seattle is 14.2% above it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
8,042
Employers nationwide
1,030
Cities with filings
547
National median offered wage
$181,272
Share of national filings in Seattle
3.2%
Cities with the most applications for Staff Software Engineer
  1. Sunnyvale, CA1,115
  2. San Francisco, CA723
  3. San Diego, CA426
  4. Mountain View, CA419
  5. Santa Clara, CA354
  6. Bentonville, AR348
  7. San Jose, CA317
  8. Seattle, WA259
  9. Austin, TX251
  10. New York City, NY220

The Seattle job market

Seattle has 70,656 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 9,153 job titles and 3,414 employers; "Staff Software Engineer" ranks #39 by applications, with 0.4% of them.

Applications in Seattle, all job titles
70,656
Job titles filed
9,153
Rank of Staff Software Engineer in Seattle
39
Median offered wage in Seattle, all job titles
$150,000
National median wage, Software Developers (all job titles)
$127,754
Other job titles in Seattle
  1. Software Engineer5,057
  2. Software Development Engineer II4,848
  3. Software Development Engineer I3,414
  4. Software Dev Engineer II2,366
  5. Software Dev Engineer I1,857
  6. Software Development Engineer III1,601
  7. Manager III, Software Development1,179
  8. Software Development Engineer1,174
  9. Senior Software Engineer910
  10. Applied Scientist II892