Cisco Systems, Inc. H-1B salaries

Cisco Systems, Inc. filed 3,645 certified H-1B applications between Sep 2023 and Jun 2026. Half of them paid more than $140,000 a year.

Median salary offered: $140,000
Middle half earn: $124,600 to $166,962
Top 10% earn over: $192,083
Certified filings: 3,645

Every filing

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Pay by job title

Job title	Filings	Median	Middle half
Software Engineer	521	$135,800	$125,400 – $156,998
Software Engineering Technical Leader	198	$182,536	$154,000 – $211,193
Engineering Product Manager	104	$148,450	$132,950 – $167,172
Technical Consulting Engineer	87	$108,700	$92,500 – $114,100
Leader, Software Engineering	83	$181,272	$158,717 – $219,075
Software QA Engineer	81	$134,200	$123,600 – $152,500
Solutions Engineer	70	$130,499	$117,572 – $155,168
Product Designer	68	$131,200	$117,375 – $135,800
Consulting Engineer	58	$112,000	$106,150 – $115,639
Data Engineer	57	$140,000	$130,707 – $163,791
Hardware Engineer	55	$152,464	$129,200 – $160,895
Engineering Technical Leader	54	$178,244	$142,400 – $193,388
ASIC Engineer	53	$151,091	$127,600 – $165,808
Customer Delivery Architect	53	$155,106	$134,202 – $167,800
Data Scientist	45	$155,900	$142,100 – $177,600
Site Reliability Engineer	40	$135,555	$122,925 – $155,946
Software Consulting Engineer	40	$132,340	$127,629 – $160,719
Strategy & Planning Manager	38	$157,757	$146,500 – $174,000
Technical Systems Engineer	34	$132,954	$120,328 – $146,781
Cloud Engineer	33	$137,259	$114,500 – $163,153
Business Analysis Manager	33	$125,500	$112,736 – $137,696
Solutions Architect	32	$150,252	$133,300 – $167,014
Customer Experience Customer Success Specialist	31	$123,635	$114,300 – $132,840
Technical Marketing Engineer	30	$139,350	$125,875 – $157,940
Machine Learning Engineer	28	$177,600	$159,625 – $188,806
Customer Delivery Engineering Technical Leader	28	$136,595	$127,878 – $151,198
ASIC Engineering Technical Leader	28	$178,006	$160,300 – $191,400
Software Development Engineer	27	$139,840	$123,178 – $160,591
Business Operations Manager	26	$128,150	$116,475 – $148,714
Business Architect	25	$135,400	$113,200 – $147,742
Business Systems Analysis Manager	25	$128,253	$114,733 – $145,065
Data Analysis Manager	24	$118,030	$108,800 – $132,151
Hardware Engineering Technical Leader	23	$176,100	$160,300 – $185,236
Security Engineer	23	$137,000	$130,900 – $152,500
Project Manager	21	$113,963	$92,539 – $128,768
Data Analyst	21	$95,000	$85,500 – $107,453
Business Systems Architect	21	$135,400	$125,500 – $145,123
Technical Program Manager	21	$126,700	$116,500 – $157,560
Cloud Engineering Technical Leader	20	$160,424	$149,100 – $179,193
Customer Escalations Engineer	20	$126,250	$114,100 – $133,312
Information Security Engineer	20	$130,400	$121,600 – $135,100
Data Engineering Technical Leader	20	$174,300	$149,100 – $197,352
Software Development Test Engineer	19	$141,107	$130,096 – $164,577
Software Consulting Engineering Technical Leader	19	$139,152	$134,550 – $162,178
Finance Manager	19	$128,189	$109,500 – $139,250
Leader, Product Management	19	$184,000	$170,914 – $197,920
Leader, Customer Delivery	19	$148,450	$125,978 – $150,050
Network Support Engineer	19	$88,878	$76,200 – $110,001
Leader, Engineering	18	$169,886	$141,200 – $197,821
Business Development Manager	17	$149,300	$141,600 – $168,958

Where they work

Bigger dots mean more filings; darker blue means higher pay.

City	Filings	Median	Middle half
San Jose, CA	908	$166,962	$144,999 – $186,472
Research Triangle Park, NC	291	$128,100	$112,000 – $144,352
San Francisco, CA	290	$161,470	$139,189 – $184,000
Richardson, TX	242	$125,700	$108,100 – $135,800
Milpitas, CA	204	$180,800	$163,510 – $199,576
Morrisville, NC	204	$128,150	$116,425 – $136,300
Austin, TX	172	$130,354	$114,400 – $139,682
Seattle, WA	134	$147,400	$133,066 – $172,303
Chicago, IL	71	$114,670	$106,729 – $130,900
Boxborough, MA	62	$135,800	$122,768 – $154,454
New York, NY	60	$138,653	$127,025 – $158,725
Atlanta, GA	54	$125,400	$112,736 – $132,700
Tracy, CA	53	$134,200	$122,700 – $146,100
Holmdel, NJ	49	$154,731	$135,782 – $180,981
Carlsbad, CA	36	$131,200	$121,358 – $156,400
Fulton, MD	34	$139,610	$124,738 – $149,993
Herndon, VA	29	$134,200	$122,699 – $148,221
Mountain House, CA	24	$146,100	$134,107 – $154,000
Doral, FL	24	$120,182	$116,266 – $136,042
Denver, CO	23	$133,952	$108,100 – $138,684

By year

Year filed	Filings	Median
2023	209	$135,304
2024	1,317	$134,200
2025	1,112	$140,400
2026	1,007	$155,300

By experience level

Wage level	Filings	Median
Level I	47	$106,600
Level II	792	$116,009
Level III	1,935	$140,700
Level IV	306	$176,117

Levels I to IV are the Labor Department's experience bands, from entry level (I) to fully competent (IV).