Employer profile
Illumina
186 certified H-1B filings across 7 fiscal years.
Snapshot year
FY2025 filings
20
FY2025 median
$143k
Top role
Staff Software Engineer
7 filings · all-time
Top state
CA
155 filings · all-time
Pay distribution
How Illumina 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 Illumina hired across H-1B fiscal years. The small figure under each filings count is its change vs the prior FY.
| FY | Filings | Median $ |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 15▼ 25% | $152k |
| FY2025 | 20▲ 122% | $143k |
| FY2024 | 9▼ 69% | $130k |
| FY2023 | 29▼ 29% | $109k |
| FY2022 | 41▼ 9% | $135k |
| FY2021 | 45▲ 67% | $120k |
| FY2020 | 27— | $117k |
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
1910%
Lvl II
2815%
Lvl III
5932%
Lvl IV
7641%
Lvl ?
42%
Top job titles
Most-filed positions, across all years (raw DOL titles).
| Job Title | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Software Engineer | 7 | $158k |
| Sr. Business Systems Analyst | 5 | $118k |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer | 3 | $190k |
| Senior Scientist | 3 | $101k |
| Sr. Software Engineer | 3 | $147k |
| Staff Engineer - Development | 3 | $111k |
| Senior Teamcenter Developer | 2 | $130k |
| Sr Business Systems Analyst | 2 | $116k |
| Principal Software Engineer | 2 | $214k |
| Engineer – Process Development | 2 | $78k |
Top worksite states
Where this employer files.
| State | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| CA | 155 | $130k |
| TX | 12 | $122k |
| OH | 3 | $130k |
| IL | 2 | $100k |
| MA | 2 | $98k |
| NC | 2 | $115k |
| AL | 2 | $140k |
| FL | 2 | $135k |
| GA | 2 | $103k |
| WA | 2 | $120k |