Customer Engineer H-1B salary at Google — 278 certified filings (FY2022–FY2026)
- 90
- Filings · FY2025
- $161k
- Median base · FY2025
- $135k–$177k
- Middle 50% · FY2025
- +15%
- vs market median · all years
Google filed 90 certified H-1B LCAs for Customer Engineer in FY2025, with a median base salary of $161k and the middle 50% of offers between $135k and $177k. Across all years its $161k median is 15% above the $140k market median for Customer Engineer. It has filed 278 Customer Engineer LCAs since FY2022, most often in Sunnyvale, CA.
How much does Google pay a Customer Engineer?
Certified base salary for Customer Engineer at Google by fiscal year: each box is the p25–p75 range, the heavy line the median, the whiskers reach p10–p90. $161k median in FY2025. Base pay only — hover a year for its figures.
Does Google pay Customer Engineers above the market?
Google's all-years median against every employer's certified Customer Engineer LCAs — 15% above the market. Same cleaned DOL title, same base-salary definition, so the two rows compare like for like.
| Base salary for this title | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 278 | $161k | |
| All employers · Customer Engineer | 549 | $140k |
How has Google's Customer Engineer hiring changed by year?
26 certified Customer Engineer filings in FY2022 → 35 in FY2026. The change column is each year against the one before.
| Fiscal year | Filings | vs prior FY | Median base |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 35 | −61% | $171k |
| FY2025 | 90 | +32% | $161k |
| FY2024 | 68 | +15% | $159k |
| FY2023 | 59 | +127% | $162k |
| FY2022 | 26 | — | $158k |
Which wage levels does Google file for Customer Engineer?
DOL prevailing-wage levels I–IV approximate experience tiers (I = entry, IV = fully competent). 68% of Google's Customer Engineer filings sit at Level III–IV. Higher levels earn more entries in the wage-weighted H-1B lottery.
Share of 251 Customer Engineer filings with a wage level · all years
- Level I4.0%10
- Level II28.3%71
- Level III46.2%116
- Level IV21.5%54
Where does Google hire H-1B Customer Engineers?
Worksite states and cities on the certified filings for this title, all years, with the median base salary at each.
| State | Filings | Median base |
|---|---|---|
| California | 109 | $171k |
| Texas | 47 | $121k |
| New York | 43 | $171k |
| Georgia | 17 | $109k |
| Massachusetts | 16 | $159k |
| Illinois | 9 | $155k |
| Virginia | 9 | $167k |
| Washington | 9 | $152k |
| City | Filings | Median base |
|---|---|---|
| Sunnyvale, CA | 53 | $178k |
| New York, NY | 43 | $171k |
| San Francisco, CA | 39 | $169k |
| Austin, TX | 38 | $118k |
| Atlanta, GA | 17 | $109k |
| Cambridge, MA | 15 | $159k |
| Addison, TX | 9 | $146k |
| Chicago, IL | 9 | $155k |
Also filed as
Google's other sponsored titles, and the employers that file the most Customer Engineer LCAs. All years.
Other titles at Google
| Job title | Filings | Median base |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 27,422 | $170k |
| Program Manager | 883 | $168k |
| Technical Program Manager | 868 | $176k |
| Product Manager | 862 | $190k |
| Research Scientist | 685 | $192k |
| Data Scientist | 522 | $175k |
| Solutions Consultant | 449 | $147k |
| Senior Software Engineer | 348 | $220k |
| Technical Solutions Consultant | 304 | $164k |
| Hardware Engineer | 275 | $167k |
Top Customer Engineer sponsors
| Employer | Filings | Median base |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 117 | $149k |
| Applied Materials | 80 | $82k |
| Google Public Sector | 18 | $160k |
| Viasat | 11 | $105k |
| Intercontinental Exchange Holdings | 7 | $100k |
| Cummins | 6 | $81k |
| OT Technology | 4 | $93k |
| Pivotal Software | 4 | $110k |
| Narvar | 3 | $140k |
Common questions about Customer Engineer H-1B pay at Google
- How much does Google pay a Customer Engineer on an H-1B?
- Google's median certified H-1B base salary for Customer Engineer is $161k in FY2025, from 90 filings; the middle 50% of offers fall between $135k and $177k. Across all years the median is $161k.
- How many Customer Engineer H-1B LCAs has Google filed?
- Google has 278 certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications for Customer Engineer on record (FY2022–FY2026), 35 of them in FY2026. That is 0% of its 82,354 certified filings across all titles.
- Does Google pay Customer Engineers above the market?
- Google's all-years median of $161k is 15% above the $140k median for Customer Engineer across all H-1B employers (549 certified filings).
- Where does Google hire H-1B Customer Engineers?
- Google's Customer Engineer LCAs name worksites mostly in California, Texas, New York; the top cities are Sunnyvale, CA, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA.
- Does a certified LCA mean an H-1B visa was approved?
- No. A Labor Condition Application (LCA) is the Department of Labor attestation an employer must have certified before filing an H-1B petition with USCIS. It records the job, worksite and offered wage, but not whether the petition was filed, selected in the lottery, or approved. Filing counts measure intent to sponsor, not headcount.
- What salary do these figures show?
- The base annual wage offered on the certified LCA, converted to a yearly amount. Bonus, equity, overtime and benefits are not included, so total compensation is typically higher. Figures are medians and percentiles over certified filings; wages above $5,000,000 a year are excluded as data-entry errors.
- What do prevailing-wage levels I–IV mean?
- The Department of Labor assigns each LCA an OES wage level from I (entry) to IV (fully competent) for the occupation and area. Under the FY2027 wage-weighted H-1B lottery rule, a higher level earns more selection entries, so an employer's level mix is a proxy for how senior its sponsored roles are.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — certified LCA disclosure data through June 2026 (FY2022–FY2026). An LCA is not an approved visa; pay figures are base salary and exclude bonus and equity. Methodology →