Employer profile
Ford Motor
5,499 certified H-1B filings across 11 fiscal years.
Snapshot year
FY2025 filings
978
FY2025 median
$131k
Top role
Software Engineer
362 filings · all-time
Top state
MI
4,565 filings · all-time
Pay distribution
How Ford Motor 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 Ford Motor hired across H-1B fiscal years. The small figure under each filings count is its change vs the prior FY.
| FY | Filings | Median $ |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 150▼ 85% | $123k |
| FY2025 | 978▲ 21% | $131k |
| FY2024 | 810▲ 23% | $116k |
| FY2023 | 661▼ 32% | $106k |
| FY2022 | 969▲ 57% | $98k |
| FY2021 | 618▲ 71% | $92k |
| FY2020 | 361▲ 3% | $86k |
| FY2019 | 349▲ 67% | $83k |
| FY2018 | 209▼ 20% | $80k |
| FY2017 | 260▲ 94% | $78k |
| FY2016 | 134— | $81k |
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 ?
4989%
Lvl I
1,23622%
Lvl II
1,64330%
Lvl III
66012%
Lvl IV
1,46227%
Top job titles
Most-filed positions, across all years (raw DOL titles).
| Job Title | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 362 | $113k |
| Product Development Engineer | 156 | $100k |
| Research Engineer | 121 | $86k |
| Data Scientist | 117 | $94k |
| Senior Software Engineer | 96 | $124k |
| Data Engineer | 69 | $112k |
| Embedded Software Engineer | 55 | $106k |
| Full Stack Data Engineer | 50 | $137k |
| Product Manager | 48 | $102k |
| Platform Software Engineer | 40 | $144k |
Top worksite states
Where this employer files.
| State | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| MI | 4,565 | $99k |
| CA | 398 | $133k |
| TX | 159 | $115k |
| IL | 42 | $92k |
| NC | 34 | $110k |
| FL | 33 | $105k |
| OH | 31 | $103k |
| GA | 31 | $110k |
| WA | 23 | $130k |
| NJ | 21 | $113k |