2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Amazon Advertising

Offered base salaries from 144 certified H-1B filings, across 9 roles in 7 metro areas.

DOL LCA disclosures · FY 2025 Certified, full-time filings only
Table 1 — The median offer

Half of Amazon Advertising's certified filings offered $152,100 or more.

The middle half of offers fell between $123,656 and $180,000. Offered base salary excludes equity and bonus — read every figure on this page as a floor on total pay, not an average.

Table 2 — Roles

What they hire for

Offered base salary by occupation, nationwide, ordered by filing volume.

RoleMedian offerRangeFilings
Software Developers$149,700$109k – $237k52
Data Scientists$158,000$83k – $221k28
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists$108,000$67k – $213k16
Computer and Information Research Scientists$192,600$167k – $217k8
Marketing Managers$143,000$88k – $202k7
Computer Occupations, All Other$180,000$149k – $225k7
Operations Research Analysts$93,000$83k – $176k7
Computer and Information Systems Managers$200,000$113k – $259k6
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers$152,100$144k – $168k3
Table 3 — Metro areas

Where they hire

The same filings by worksite metro area.

Metro areaMedian offerRangeFilings
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$153,400$83k – $237k64
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$163,862$110k – $217k40
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX$143,700$109k – $184k8
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$87,600$67k – $138k8
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$196,790$148k – $259k8
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN$93,000$81k – $152k3
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$152,100$123k – $168k3
Table 4 — Against the market

Offers beside the local going rate

Each row compares Amazon Advertising's median offer with the median for everyone in that occupation and metro, from federal wage statistics.

Role — MetroMedian offerFilingsvs. market
Software Developers — New York$152,90018−8.3%
Software Developers — Seattle$163,86217−2.0%
Data Scientists — New York$153,40014+12.8%
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists — New York$148,70010+47.9%
Software Developers — Austin$132,2677−1.4%
Data Scientists — Seattle$150,0007−8.9%
Computer and Information Research Scientists — New York$192,6006+12.7%
Computer Occupations, All Other — Seattle$180,0006+32.2%
Marketing Managers — New York$143,0005−25.8%
Sources

How this page was made

Employer pay
US Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. Public records.
Coverage
144 certified full-time H-1B filings. Groups under 3 filings are excluded throughout.
Market comparison
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.

Filings state the offered base salary at time of application; equity and bonus are not recorded, and visa-sponsored hiring skews toward larger employers and technical roles — this page describes Amazon Advertising's visa filings, not its whole workforce. Employer names are normalised from filing entities, so figures cover the filing entity named above. We take no payment from employers for how any figure is presented, and corrections are welcome at press@salaryalmanac.com.