2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Amazon Com Services

Offered base salaries from 11,027 certified H-1B filings, across 48 roles in 55 metro areas.

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

Half of Amazon Com Services's certified filings offered $154,606 or more.

The middle half of offers fell between $129,000 and $181,800. 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$162,000$78k – $300k4531
Data Scientists$139,506$54k – $650k1365
Computer and Information Systems Managers$203,400$114k – $320k797
Computer and Information Research Scientists$177,000$76k – $616k596
Computer Occupations, All Other$166,962$59k – $275k525
Operations Research Analysts$121,200$51k – $257k382
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers$142,800$58k – $350k351
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers$149,400$61k – $244k256
Logisticians$102,600$46k – $228k224
Project Management Specialists$128,523$60k – $215k202
Table 3 — Metro areas

Where they hire

The same filings by worksite metro area.

Metro areaMedian offerRangeFilings
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$152,200$63k – $405k5462
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$190,000$82k – $616k1432
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX$145,400$57k – $240k877
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$159,200$65k – $616k766
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$142,800$74k – $250k416
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$148,200$58k – $272k320
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$180,000$67k – $345k242
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$137,300$61k – $248k239
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$141,300$74k – $245k231
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN$126,610$51k – $202k180
Table 4 — Against the market

Offers beside the local going rate

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

Role — MetroMedian offerFilingsvs. market
Software Developers — Seattle$159,4002278−4.7%
Software Developers — San Jose$193,700724−9.1%
Data Scientists — Seattle$140,000700−15.0%
Computer and Information Systems Managers — Seattle$203,700407−5.1%
Software Developers — Austin$152,800394+13.9%
Computer Occupations, All Other — Seattle$165,800301+21.8%
Computer and Information Research Scientists — Seattle$170,000278−19.5%
Software Developers — New York$160,710254−3.7%
Operations Research Analysts — Seattle$118,200235+14.8%
Software Developers — Washington$152,100156−1.8%
Sources

How this page was made

Employer pay
US Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. Public records.
Coverage
11,027 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 Com Services'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.