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Salesforce

Offered base salaries from 1,298 certified H-1B filings, across 20 roles in 28 metro areas.

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

Half of Salesforce's certified filings offered $202,878 or more.

The middle half of offers fell between $172,012 and $236,900. 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$209,550$109k – $430k749
Computer Occupations, All Other$191,668$92k – $356k158
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers$160,000$93k – $315k123
Computer and Information Systems Managers$255,969$171k – $420k90
Sales Engineers$174,308$112k – $323k36
Database Architects$220,000$143k – $328k28
Data Scientists$199,395$93k – $240k24
Computer and Information Research Scientists$247,216$187k – $340k14
Information Security Analysts$214,863$165k – $315k11
Operations Research Analysts$163,824$102k – $212k8
Table 3 — Metro areas

Where they hire

The same filings by worksite metro area.

Metro areaMedian offerRangeFilings
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$225,000$103k – $430k507
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$205,000$92k – $400k244
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$172,624$90k – $299k87
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$225,000$149k – $420k71
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$201,580$132k – $302k62
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA$163,000$97k – $247k53
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN$157,532$85k – $232k46
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$202,878$112k – $347k35
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX$175,017$119k – $263k28
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN$182,324$125k – $241k25
Table 4 — Against the market

Offers beside the local going rate

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

Role — MetroMedian offerFilingsvs. market
Software Developers — San Francisco$225,000332+20.6%
Software Developers — Seattle$206,788170+23.6%
Computer and Information Systems Managers — San Francisco$270,00043+15.9%
Software Developers — Dallas$173,65943+30.3%
Software Developers — San Jose$230,00039+7.9%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers — San Francisco$163,00039+21.1%
Computer Occupations, All Other — San Francisco$233,48634+44.4%
Software Developers — New York$218,58527+31.0%
Software Developers — Boston$207,70124+25.1%
Computer Occupations, All Other — Seattle$191,47523+40.7%
Sources

How this page was made

Employer pay
US Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. Public records.
Coverage
1,298 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 Salesforce'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.