Visa Wage Index

Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar Inc. made 266 filings covering 266 positions in this release. Across them it filed wages of a median of $118,456 a year.

Green-card sponsorship

Caterpillar Inc. filed 92 permanent labour certifications between 2025-11-10 and 2026-06-23, of which 91 were certified. That is the step an employment-based green card starts with, so this employer does sponsor them.

What it filed, by role and place

OccupationWhereLevelWage yearFilings PositionsMedianPrevailing
Software Developers Peoria, IL Level IV 2025-26 31 31 $127,587 $127,587
Electrical Engineers Peoria, IL Level IV 2025-26 20 20 $111,675 $111,675
Software Developers Peoria, IL Level II 2025-26 18 18 $92,789 $92,789
Mechanical Engineers Peoria, IL Level II 2025-26 15 15 $95,680 $95,680
Software Developers Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level IV 2025-26 14 14 $153,317 $153,317
Electrical Engineers Peoria, IL Level II 2025-26 12 12 $85,405 $85,341
Software Developers Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level II 2025-26 10 10 $108,077 $108,077
Software Developers Peoria, IL Level III 2025-26 9 9 $110,198 $110,198
Electrical Engineers Peoria, IL Level III 2025-26 8 8 $98,550 $98,550
Mechanical Engineers Peoria, IL Level IV 2025-26 7 7 $131,227 $131,227
Robotics Engineers Peoria, IL Level II 2025-26 6 6 $93,330 $93,330
Software Developers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level IV 2025-26 6 6 $156,998 $156,998
Architectural and Engineering Managers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level IV 2025-26 5 5 $214,198 $214,198
Mechanical Engineers Peoria, IL Level III 2025-26 5 5 $113,443 $113,443
Software Developers Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level III 2025-26 5 5 $130,707 $130,707
Validation Engineers Peoria, IL Level II 2025-26 5 5 $95,451 $95,451
Architectural and Engineering Managers Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ Level IV 2025-26 3 3 $232,898 $232,898
Computer Systems Engineers/Architects Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level IV 2025-26 3 3 $132,434 $132,434
Data Scientists Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level IV 2025-26 3 3 $142,210 $142,210
Mechanical Engineers Tucson, AZ Level II 2025-26 3 3 $102,128 $102,128
Software Developers Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level I 2025-26 3 3 $85,467 $85,467
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers Peoria, IL Level IV 2025-26 3 3 $95,680 $95,680
Business Intelligence Analysts Peoria, IL Level II 2025-26 2 2 $96,466 $85,322
Data Scientists Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level III 2025-26 2 2 $119,558 $119,558
Database Architects Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level IV 2025-26 2 2 $160,555 $160,555
Industrial Engineers Peoria, IL Level IV 2025-26 2 2 $131,872 $131,872
Information Technology Project Managers Peoria, IL Level IV 2025-26 2 2 $127,983 $111,904
Manufacturing Engineers West Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area Level IV 2025-26 2 2 $114,328 $105,934
Mechanical Engineers Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN Level IV 2025-26 2 2 $125,653 $125,653
Mechanical Engineers Sherman-Denison, TX Level III 2025-26 2 2 $105,622 $104,374
Robotics Engineers Peoria, IL Level IV 2025-26 2 2 $128,045 $127,837
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level II 2025-26 2 2 $89,731 $88,088
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers Peoria, IL Level II 2025-26 2 2 $67,101 $67,101
Architectural and Engineering Managers Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $183,331 $183,331
Business Intelligence Analysts Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level II 2025-26 1 1 $96,928 $96,928
Business Intelligence Analysts Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $141,773 $141,773
Computer Systems Engineers/Architects Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $144,310 $135,699
Data Scientists Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Level III 2025-26 1 1 $124,530 $124,530
Data Scientists Peoria, IL Level I 2025-26 1 1 $67,350 $67,350
Data Scientists Peoria, IL Level III 2025-26 1 1 $103,314 $103,314
Data Scientists Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $131,414 $131,414
Database Administrators Peoria, IL Level III 2025-26 1 1 $101,858 $92,747
Database Architects Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $157,414 $157,414
Electrical Engineers Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN Level III 2025-26 1 1 $105,706 $105,706
Electrical Engineers Tucson, AZ Level II 2025-26 1 1 $107,099 $107,099
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer Peoria, IL Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $129,875 $129,875
Information Security Analysts Peoria, IL Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $149,531 $116,210
Information Security Engineers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level III 2025-26 1 1 $118,456 $118,456
Information Technology Project Managers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $144,310 $144,310
Logisticians San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $97,594 $97,594
Manufacturing Engineers Upper East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area Level III 2025-26 1 1 $89,274 $89,274
Manufacturing Engineers West Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area Level I 2025-26 1 1 $65,062 $65,062
Manufacturing Engineers West Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area Level III 2025-26 1 1 $92,310 $92,310
Mechanical Engineers Champaign-Urbana, IL Level II 2025-26 1 1 $84,490 $84,490
Mechanical Engineers Champaign-Urbana, IL Level III 2025-26 1 1 $113,443 $100,048
Mechanical Engineers Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Level II 2025-26 1 1 $106,850 $106,850
Mechanical Engineers Victoria, TX Level III 2025-26 1 1 $111,051 $111,051
Mechanical Engineers West Central Illinois nonmetropolitan area Level II 2025-26 1 1 $75,962 $75,962
Operations Research Analysts Peoria, IL Level III 2025-26 1 1 $126,464 $126,464
Project Management Specialists Charleston-North Charleston, SC Level II 2025-26 1 1 $82,181 $82,181
Project Management Specialists Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $133,182 $133,182
Robotics Engineers Pittsburgh, PA Level III 2025-26 1 1 $102,710 $102,710
Sales Engineers Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $145,870 $145,870
Sales Managers Peoria, IL Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $179,483 $179,483
Software Developers Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Level I 2025-26 1 1 $90,896 $90,355
Software Developers Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Level III 2025-26 1 1 $139,152 $139,152
Software Developers Champaign-Urbana, IL Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $127,587 $127,234
Software Developers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level I 2025-26 1 1 $90,896 $90,896
Software Developers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level II 2025-26 1 1 $112,923 $112,923
Software Developers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level III 2025-26 1 1 $134,971 $134,971
Software Developers Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO Level II 2025-26 1 1 $120,536 $120,536
Software Developers Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Level III 2025-26 1 1 $120,349 $120,349
Software Developers Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $149,718 $149,718
Software Developers Madison, WI Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $130,894 $130,894
Software Developers Pittsburgh, PA Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $189,592 $140,754
Software Developers Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $165,214 $165,214
Software Developers Tucson, AZ Level II 2025-26 1 1 $107,266 $107,266
Software Developers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level not stated 3 3 $115,425 $117,135
Information Security Engineers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level not stated 2 2 $123,387 $123,387
Data Scientists Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level not stated 1 1 $135,998 $135,998

A wage is shown against the prevailing wage for the library year the filing itself cites, not the year current today — measured against the wrong year, a correctly-filed wage reads as underpaid.

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Source: Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, US Department of Labor (public domain), and the OFLC prevailing wage library. Figures are what employers filed, not what they paid.