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Data Engineer at Meta

Pay by year, the work locations, and the prevailing-wage level breakdown.

What does Meta pay a Data Engineer on an H-1B?

$175k Meta has filed 1,909 H-1B labor condition applications for the role of Data Engineer with the U.S. Department of Labor between FY2017 and FY2026 at a median base salary of $175k. Most of those filings fall between $155k and $195k. Base salary is the wage stated on the filing, not total compensation.

H-1B LCA filings
1,909
Median base salary
$175k
Middle 50%
$155k to $195k

Filings and pay by year

Data Engineer at Meta, by fiscal year

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Meta Data Engineer H-1B filings and median base salary by fiscal year
Fiscal yearFilingsMedian base salary
FY2026 (partial)241$191k
FY2025261$195k
FY2024241$186k
FY2023165$192k
FY2022256$166k
FY2021296$165k
FY2020176$161k
FY2019119$158k
FY201893$150k
FY201761$145k

A fiscal year marked partial is still in progress, so its total is lower than a complete year and the two are not comparable.

Where this work is

Work locations named on the filings, most common first

LocationFilingsMedian base salary
Menlo Park, CA1,008$174k
Seattle, WA210$161k
New York, NY190$178k
Bellevue, WA125$194k
Burlingame, CA67$178k
Austin, TX39$175k
Sunnyvale, CA27$185k
San Francisco, CA23$165k
Redmond, WA20$188k
Fremont, CA17$166k
Los Angeles, CA17$160k
Washington, DC13$183k

Prevailing-wage level

The experience level DOL assigns the role, I (entry) to IV (expert)

LevelFilingsMedian base salary
Level I102$141k
Level II214$162k
Level III529$163k
Level IV769$194k

Other roles Meta sponsors

Software Engineer 20,733Research Scientist 3,084Data Scientist 2,108Product Manager 1,075Production Engineer 1,060Software Engineering Manager 983Product Designer 761Technical Program Manager 731Engineering Manager 433Research Engineer 314Software Engineer, Machine Learning 313Front End Engineer 298

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