2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Visa Technology Operations

Offered base salaries from 360 certified H-1B filings, across 12 roles in 6 metro areas.

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

Half of Visa Technology Operations's certified filings offered $145,400 or more.

The middle half of offers fell between $128,668 and $161,670. 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$149,760$105k – $215k178
Computer Occupations, All Other$149,240$100k – $205k103
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers$125,632$92k – $178k21
Information Security Analysts$169,978$125k – $195k11
Data Scientists$139,800$117k – $227k8
Computer Network Architects$159,100$127k – $176k7
Database Administrators$128,000$106k – $152k7
Database Architects$160,056$124k – $175k6
Computer and Information Systems Managers$217,568$213k – $223k5
Network and Computer Systems Administrators$122,824$99k – $161k5
Table 3 — Metro areas

Where they hire

The same filings by worksite metro area.

Metro areaMedian offerRangeFilings
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX$139,800$92k – $223k192
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$173,638$118k – $227k86
Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO$140,338$100k – $172k30
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA$149,760$100k – $160k28
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$160,600$99k – $184k14
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$162,762$137k – $166k7
Table 4 — Against the market

Offers beside the local going rate

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

Role — MetroMedian offerFilingsvs. market
Software Developers — Austin$139,80097+4.2%
Computer Occupations, All Other — Austin$139,80055+8.0%
Software Developers — San Francisco$161,63739−13.4%
Computer Occupations, All Other — San Francisco$173,63832+7.4%
Software Developers — Atlanta$149,76020+12.6%
Software Developers — Denver$151,05413+9.8%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers — Austin$124,9048+21.2%
Computer Occupations, All Other — Denver$148,3006−7.6%
Computer Occupations, All Other — Washington$156,2296−0.3%
Software Developers — Seattle$162,7625−2.7%
Sources

How this page was made

Employer pay
US Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. Public records.
Coverage
360 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 Visa Technology Operations'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.