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Santa Barbara, CA H-1B salaries

Employers filed 407 certified H-1B applications for jobs in Santa Barbara, CA between Jan 2023 and Jun 2026. Half paid more than $97,885 a year.

Median salary offered: $97,885
Middle half earn: $77,214 to $133,110
Top 10% earn over: $168,542
Certified filings: 407

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Top employers

Employer	Filings	Median	Middle half
University of California at Santa Barbara	218	$81,800	$74,281 – $103,772
Amazon.com Services LLC	39	$127,700	$96,300 – $144,100
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital	8	$140,005	$135,236 – $150,207
Bruker Nano, Inc.	7	$121,000	$109,610 – $149,704
Google LLC	6	$167,500	$165,000 – $188,000
Impact Tech, Inc.	6	$126,408	$125,000 – $136,162
HG Insights, Inc.	5	$133,640	$130,000 – $190,000
Green Hills Software LLC	4	$139,000	$136,250 – $153,000
Hope School District	4	$98,883	$89,905 – $107,390
Mayachitra, Inc.	4	$116,116	$104,310 – $129,522
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company	4	$140,574	$127,875 – $148,552
University of California, Santa Barbara	4	$118,550	$112,239 – $142,710
NVIDIA Corporation	3	$184,000	$184,000 – $185,839
One Skill Factory Inc.	3	$75,000	$67,500 – $75,000
Winick Architects Inc.	3	$90,000	$80,000 – $115,000
Hochhauser Blatter Architects, Inc.	3	$68,328	$68,328 – $74,724
Crossno & Kaye, Inc.	3	$155,000	$149,000 – $159,000
Bright Market, LLC	2	$139,750	$124,875 – $154,625
CVS Rx Services Inc.	2	$161,533	$156,478 – $166,588
Analog Devices, Inc.	2	$168,808	$148,213 – $189,404
Blackbird Architects, Inc.	2	$96,010	$94,015 – $98,005
Adobe Inc.	2	$209,000	$199,500 – $218,500
19six Architects	2	$111,280	$106,600 – $115,960
PacificOptica LLC	2	$130,000	$130,000 – $130,000
Seagull Lane Healthcare, Inc.	2	$126,880	$123,760 – $130,000
HCL America Inc	2	$135,750	$135,750 – $135,750
Sonos, Inc.	2	$133,000	$123,500 – $142,500
Signiwis Technologies Inc	2	$127,816	$127,816 – $127,816
Well Health, Inc.	2	$147,675	$140,012 – $155,338
Discovery Life Sciences	2	$92,454	$90,977 – $93,932
Cisco Systems, Inc.	1	$160,659	$160,659 – $160,659
Artspace Inc.	1	$62,400	$62,400 – $62,400
Arthrex, Inc.	1	$188,200	$188,200 – $188,200
Auxo AI, Inc.	1	$216,000	$216,000 – $216,000
Anacapa Architecture	1	$60,000	$60,000 – $60,000
AB Design Studio, Inc.	1	$65,270	$65,270 – $65,270
AdventureMinds Inc.	1	$104,000	$104,000 – $104,000
Amazon Web Services, Inc.	1	$168,000	$168,000 – $168,000
Bio SB, Inc.	1	$74,360	$74,360 – $74,360
Curvature, LLC	1	$160,000	$160,000 – $160,000
Cuadrilla Capital, LLC	1	$120,000	$120,000 – $120,000
Conservation International	1	$82,347	$82,347 – $82,347
Commission Junction LLC	1	$152,250	$152,250 – $152,250
ClimateWorks Foundation, Inc.	1	$78,000	$78,000 – $78,000
Cognixion Corporation	1	$88,000	$88,000 – $88,000
HubSpot, Inc.	1	$227,400	$227,400 – $227,400
US Data Management, LLC	1	$192,000	$192,000 – $192,000
High Temperature Superconductors, Inc.	1	$100,194	$100,194 – $100,194
Hawk Applications Corporation	1	$100,000	$100,000 – $100,000
Evidation Health Inc.	1	$194,735	$194,735 – $194,735

Top job titles

Job title	Filings	Median	Middle half
Postdoctoral Scholar	70	$74,281	$71,632 – $77,308
Assistant Professor	34	$129,500	$108,500 – $146,025
Project Scientist	23	$80,100	$77,400 – $86,650
Lecturer	17	$73,112	$70,283 – $79,102
Software Engineer	10	$127,868	$104,304 – $132,744
Associate Specialist	9	$82,200	$79,500 – $82,285
Postdoctoral Scholar Employee	8	$67,454	$66,302 – $74,569
Academic Coordinator	7	$87,630	$82,348 – $90,756
Specialist	6	$98,094	$92,500 – $103,688
Research Scientist	6	$167,500	$165,000 – $188,000
Counseling Psychologist	5	$108,575	$107,522 – $108,575
Architectural Designer	5	$81,120	$68,328 – $92,020
Business Intelligence Engineer II	4	$116,105	$109,673 – $125,983
Ontologist II	4	$95,896	$94,420 – $96,300
Professor	4	$171,250	$163,425 – $180,000
Software Development Engineer II	4	$157,108	$147,162 – $162,912
Elementary School Teacher	4	$98,883	$89,905 – $107,390
Lead Optical Engineer	3	$130,000	$129,608 – $130,000
Data Scientist II	3	$146,900	$122,392 – $157,450
Full Stack Engineer	3	$125,000	$125,000 – $150,000
Assistant Project Scientist	3	$87,100	$83,600 – $87,646
Business Intelligence Engineer I	3	$103,100	$88,179 – $119,050
Software Development Engineer I	3	$112,100	$110,276 – $121,150
Occupational Therapist	3	$133,120	$126,880 – $133,120
Senior Software Engineer	3	$163,000	$159,000 – $178,868
Software Development Engineer	3	$195,000	$192,500 – $211,500
Research and Development Engineer	3	$120,000	$109,993 – $122,520
Assistant Researcher	2	$101,841	$100,862 – $102,820
Business Analyst II	2	$78,679	$75,968 – $81,390
Associate	2	$99,250	$88,875 – $109,625
Research Scientist / Scientific Project Manager	2	$92,454	$90,977 – $93,932
Project Engineer	2	$110,386	$105,258 – $115,513
Research Engineer III	2	$123,154	$118,434 – $127,875
Research Scientist I	2	$139,800	$139,800 – $139,800
Senior Accountant	2	$98,372	$97,686 – $99,058
Senior Lead Developer	2	$118,550	$116,017 – $121,082
Junior Specialist	2	$56,200	$55,300 – $57,100
Technical Program Manager II	2	$129,400	$129,400 – $129,400
Staff Research Associate	2	$90,230	$87,901 – $92,560
Systems Administrator	2	$96,706	$95,938 – $97,473
Engineer V	2	$148,552	$148,552 – $148,552
Embedded Software Test Engineer	2	$139,000	$139,000 – $139,000
Coaching Director	2	$75,000	$75,000 – $75,000
Data Engineer I	2	$119,570	$115,505 – $123,635
Clinical Lab Specialist II	2	$133,630	$127,967 – $139,292
Clinical Laboratory Scientist II	2	$123,854	$116,007 – $131,700
IT Business Analyst	2	$140,005	$140,005 – $140,005
Director of Operations- Women's Basketball	2	$63,663	$63,663 – $63,663
Product Support Engineer	2	$109,610	$108,040 – $111,180
Applications Programmer	2	$98,796	$96,096 – $101,496

By year

Year filed	Filings	Median
2023	41	$91,200
2024	125	$97,885
2025	145	$100,000
2026	96	$95,451