Employer profile
Caterpillar
484 certified H-1B filings across 7 fiscal years.
Snapshot year
FY2025 filings
85
FY2025 median
$115k
Top role
Software Engineer
27 filings · all-time
Top state
IL
392 filings · all-time
Pay distribution
How Caterpillar 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 Caterpillar hired across H-1B fiscal years. The small figure under each filings count is its change vs the prior FY.
| FY | Filings | Median $ |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 38▼ 55% | $112k |
| FY2025 | 85▼ 2% | $115k |
| FY2024 | 87▲ 30% | $115k |
| FY2023 | 67▼ 35% | $103k |
| FY2022 | 103▲ 56% | $108k |
| FY2021 | 66▲ 74% | $110k |
| FY2020 | 38— | $107k |
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 I
61%
Lvl II
22346%
Lvl III
13428%
Lvl IV
10822%
Lvl ?
133%
Top job titles
Most-filed positions, across all years (raw DOL titles).
| Job Title | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 27 | $110k |
| Lead Software Engineer | 19 | $145k |
| Senior Software Engineer | 15 | $123k |
| Embedded Software Engineer | 13 | $97k |
| Autonomy Engineer | 12 | $105k |
| Senior Engineer - Design | 11 | $107k |
| Senior Autonomy Engineer | 11 | $116k |
| Control Systems Senior Engineer | 10 | $103k |
| Embedded Software Senior Engineer | 9 | $112k |
| Design Engineer | 9 | $102k |
Top worksite states
Where this employer files.
| State | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| IL | 392 | $108k |
| TX | 31 | $109k |
| AZ | 11 | $107k |
| CA | 10 | $151k |
| GA | 7 | $128k |
| CO | 5 | $117k |
| PA | 5 | $107k |
| IN | 4 | $106k |
| TN | 3 | $146k |
| NC | 2 | $151k |