Microsoft H-1B salary, 2008 to 2025
Microsoft offered a median salary of $170,500 on its 9,192 certified H-1B applications in fiscal year 2025, $50,500 above the $120,000 median across all employers.
How it is measured
Each Labor Condition Application states the salary the employer offers for the position. Kitegraph takes the offered wage on Microsoft's certified full-time applications from the Department of Labor disclosure files, annualizes hourly figures, and reports the median per federal fiscal year beside the median across all employers. These are salaries offered on applications, not a payroll survey.
What the curve shows
Microsoft's median offer rose from $86,000 in fiscal 2008 to $170,500 in 2025, its highest on record. It has run above the median across all employers in every year of the series.
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