Employer profile
Western Digital Technologies
539 certified H-1B filings across 7 fiscal years.
Snapshot year
FY2025 filings
77
FY2025 median
$137k
Top role
Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering
24 filings · all-time
Top state
CA
502 filings · all-time
Pay distribution
How Western Digital Technologies 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 Western Digital Technologies hired across H-1B fiscal years. The small figure under each filings count is its change vs the prior FY.
| FY | Filings | Median $ |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 14▼ 82% | $173k |
| FY2025 | 77▼ 17% | $137k |
| FY2024 | 93▼ 10% | $150k |
| FY2023 | 103▲ 6% | $135k |
| FY2022 | 97▲ 10% | $146k |
| FY2021 | 88▲ 31% | $130k |
| FY2020 | 67— | $136k |
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
8015%
Lvl II
11722%
Lvl III
8315%
Lvl IV
14327%
Lvl ?
11622%
Top job titles
Most-filed positions, across all years (raw DOL titles).
| Job Title | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering | 24 | $141k |
| Senior Engineer, Industrial Engineering | 20 | $93k |
| Principal Engineer, R&D Engineering | 18 | $136k |
| Principal Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering | 15 | $155k |
| Analyst 4, Business Applications | 13 | $158k |
| Analyst 4, Business Marketing | 11 | $130k |
| Principal Engineer, Firmware Engineering | 10 | $151k |
| Staff Engineer, R&D Engineering | 10 | $145k |
| Technologist, R&D Engineering | 10 | $190k |
| Staff Engineer, Development Engineering | 8 | $117k |
Top worksite states
Where this employer files.
| State | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| CA | 502 | $142k |
| CO | 15 | $120k |
| IL | 3 | $122k |
| MN | 3 | $93k |
| MO | 2 | $86k |
| OR | 2 | $126k |
| TX | 2 | $150k |
| NJ | 2 | $100k |
| WA | 1 | $115k |
| GA | 1 | $145k |