2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Amgen

Offered base salaries from 327 certified H-1B filings, across 23 roles in 17 metro areas.

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

Half of Amgen's certified filings offered $135,000 or more.

The middle half of offers fell between $117,337 and $151,940. 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$140,439$92k – $189k59
Data Scientists$140,000$76k – $245k45
Industrial Engineers$118,000$86k – $189k22
Biological Scientists, All Other$134,420$87k – $153k22
Biochemists and Biophysicists$100,942$89k – $150k19
Chemists$132,786$83k – $184k17
Natural Sciences Managers$153,000$120k – $288k14
Operations Research Analysts$143,261$79k – $180k11
Mechanical Engineers$107,385$86k – $131k11
Computer Occupations, All Other$156,000$120k – $162k10
Table 3 — Metro areas

Where they hire

The same filings by worksite metro area.

Metro areaMedian offerRangeFilings
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA$135,000$79k – $308k106
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL$133,037$69k – $205k41
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$130,000$89k – $170k36
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$139,562$76k – $206k20
Columbus, OH$117,376$86k – $161k17
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$156,000$80k – $162k12
Raleigh-Cary, NC$136,010$79k – $164k12
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA$104,507$83k – $135k11
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$128,340$92k – $175k9
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$155,000$120k – $220k8
Table 4 — Against the market

Offers beside the local going rate

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

Role — MetroMedian offerFilingsvs. market
Software Developers — Tampa$137,07223+5.1%
Data Scientists — Oxnard$146,82818+16.2%
Biological Scientists, All Other — Oxnard$120,52010+23.4%
Chemists — Oxnard$133,3459+60.7%
Biochemists and Biophysicists — Boston$100,6938−23.5%
Biological Scientists, All Other — San Francisco$139,7258+1.1%
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers — Oxnard$130,6407+9.0%
Data Scientists — Boston$120,0007−9.1%
Industrial Engineers — Columbus$92,8107−7.7%
Industrial Engineers — Providence$104,5077−1.7%
Sources

How this page was made

Employer pay
US Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. Public records.
Coverage
327 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 Amgen'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.