Employer profile
Alation
129 certified H-1B filings across 11 fiscal years.
Snapshot year
FY2025 filings
9
FY2025 median
$173k
Top role
Software Engineer
36 filings · all-time
Top state
CA
108 filings · all-time
Pay distribution
How Alation pays, by fiscal year
Each box is the p25–p75 interquartile range; the heavy line is the median and the whiskers reach p10–p90. Base salary only — hover a year for its figures.
Year-over-year
How Alation hired across H-1B fiscal years. The small figure under each filings count is its change vs the prior FY.
| FY | Filings | Median $ |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 2▼ 78% | $183k |
| FY2025 | 9▼ 55% | $173k |
| FY2024 | 20▲ 82% | $158k |
| FY2023 | 11▼ 54% | $150k |
| FY2022 | 24▲ 14% | $150k |
| FY2021 | 21▲ 163% | $140k |
| FY2020 | 8▼ 47% | $145k |
| FY2019 | 15▲ 67% | $119k |
| FY2018 | 9▲ 29% | $110k |
| FY2017 | 7▲ 133% | $123k |
| FY2016 | 3— | $105k |
Prevailing wage level distribution
DOL Levels I–IV approximate experience tiers (I = entry, IV = fully competent). A heavy Level I/II skew suggests entry-level / contractor-style hiring; a heavy IV skew suggests senior in-house roles.
Lvl ?
75%
Lvl I
129%
Lvl II
5140%
Lvl III
4736%
Lvl IV
129%
Top job titles
Most-filed positions, across all years (raw DOL titles).
| Job Title | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 36 | $121k |
| Sr. Software Engineer | 13 | $182k |
| Senior Software Engineer | 12 | $170k |
| Software Engineer Iii | 8 | $160k |
| Senior Product Manager | 3 | $200k |
| Staff Software Engineer | 3 | $234k |
| Sr. Sales Operations Analyst | 3 | $98k |
| Manager, Product Design | 3 | $150k |
| Sr. Software Development Engineer In Test | 3 | $150k |
| Staff Technical Support Engineer | 3 | $152k |
Top worksite states
Where this employer files.
| State | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| CA | 108 | $150k |
| WA | 5 | $160k |
| TX | 5 | $120k |
| NY | 2 | $150k |
| NC | 2 | $120k |
| VA | 2 | $170k |
| IL | 2 | $78k |
| OR | 1 | $170k |
| MA | 1 | $100k |
| NJ | 1 | $160k |