Interaction Designer H-1B salary at Google — 229 certified filings (FY2016–FY2026)
- 14
- Filings · FY2025
- $171k
- Median base · FY2025
- $166k–$195k
- Middle 50% · FY2025
- +28%
- vs market median · all years
Google filed 14 certified H-1B LCAs for Interaction Designer in FY2025, with a median base salary of $171k and the middle 50% of offers between $166k and $195k. Across all years its $162k median is 28% above the $127k market median for Interaction Designer. It has filed 229 Interaction Designer LCAs since FY2016, most often in Mountain View, CA.
How much does Google pay a Interaction Designer?
Certified base salary for Interaction Designer at Google by fiscal year: each box is the p25–p75 range, the heavy line the median, the whiskers reach p10–p90. $171k median in FY2025. Base pay only — hover a year for its figures.
Does Google pay Interaction Designers above the market?
Google's all-years median against every employer's certified Interaction Designer LCAs — 28% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 229 | $162k | |
| All employers · Interaction Designer | 445 | $127k |
How has Google's Interaction Designer hiring changed by year?
24 certified Interaction Designer filings in FY2016 → 1 in FY2026. The change column is each year against the one before.
| Fiscal year | Filings | vs prior FY | Median base |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 1 | −93% | $191k |
| FY2025 | 14 | −75% | $171k |
| FY2024 | 56 | −10% | $168k |
| FY2023 | 62 | −3% | $162k |
| FY2022 | 64 | +3100% | $158k |
| FY2020 | 2 | −67% | $130k |
| FY2017 | 6 | −75% | $110k |
| FY2016 | 24 | — | $116k |
Which wage levels does Google file for Interaction Designer?
DOL prevailing-wage levels I–IV approximate experience tiers (I = entry, IV = fully competent). 67% of Google's Interaction Designer filings sit at Level III–IV. Higher levels earn more entries in the wage-weighted H-1B lottery.
Share of 203 Interaction Designer filings with a wage level · all years
- Level I0.5%1
- Level II32.0%65
- Level III50.7%103
- Level IV16.7%34
Where does Google hire H-1B Interaction Designers?
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 | 145 | $164k |
| Washington | 38 | $147k |
| New York | 36 | $168k |
| Georgia | 3 | $143k |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $124k |
| Nevada | 2 | $165k |
| Colorado | 1 | $127k |
| New Jersey | 1 | $127k |
| City | Filings | Median base |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain View, CA | 63 | $161k |
| New York, NY | 36 | $168k |
| San Francisco, CA | 33 | $169k |
| Seattle, WA | 29 | $144k |
| Sunnyvale, CA | 19 | $166k |
| San Bruno, CA | 14 | $159k |
| Kirkland, WA | 7 | $154k |
| Atlanta, GA | 3 | $143k |
Also filed as
Google's other sponsored titles, and the employers that file the most Interaction Designer 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 |
| Customer Engineer | 278 | $161k |
Top Interaction Designer sponsors
| Employer | Filings | Median base |
|---|---|---|
| Intel | 15 | $83k |
| Verily Life Sciences | 11 | $140k |
| Ideo | 10 | $72k |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations | 7 | $131k |
| MH Sub I | 6 | $80k |
| Microsoft | 6 | $120k |
| Vmware | 5 | $112k |
| Cloudistics | 5 | $94k |
| Punchcut | 5 | $125k |
Common questions about Interaction Designer H-1B pay at Google
- How much does Google pay a Interaction Designer on an H-1B?
- Google's median certified H-1B base salary for Interaction Designer is $171k in FY2025, from 14 filings; the middle 50% of offers fall between $166k and $195k. Across all years the median is $162k.
- How many Interaction Designer H-1B LCAs has Google filed?
- Google has 229 certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications for Interaction Designer on record (FY2016–FY2026), 1 of them in FY2026. That is 0% of its 82,354 certified filings across all titles.
- Does Google pay Interaction Designers above the market?
- Google's all-years median of $162k is 28% above the $127k median for Interaction Designer across all H-1B employers (445 certified filings).
- Where does Google hire H-1B Interaction Designers?
- Google's Interaction Designer LCAs name worksites mostly in California, Washington, New York; the top cities are Mountain View, 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 (FY2016–FY2026). An LCA is not an approved visa; pay figures are base salary and exclude bonus and equity. Methodology →