Visa Wage Index

Costco Wholesale Corporation

Costco Wholesale Corporation made 87 filings covering 87 positions in this release. Across them it committed to pay at least a median of $150,150 a year. 87 of those 87 state a minimum and no maximum, which is what an employer is required to file — it is the floor it is bound to, not a salary offered.

Green-card sponsorship

Costco Wholesale Corporation filed 50 permanent labour certifications between 2025-11-05 and 2026-06-30, of which 50 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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level II 2025-26 30 30 $166,850 $149,240
Software Developers Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level I 2025-26 22 22 $142,950 $117,749
Optometrists Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level IV 2025-26 3 3 $257,490 $188,989
Software Developers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level I 2025-26 3 3 $138,200 $90,896
Software Developers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level II 2025-26 3 3 $154,500 $112,923
Software Developers Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level III 2025-26 3 3 $185,200 $180,710
Data Scientists Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level II 2025-26 2 2 $150,150 $129,709
Information Security Analysts Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level IV 2025-26 2 2 $212,200 $179,234
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level II 2025-26 2 2 $137,700 $88,088
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level III 2025-26 2 2 $147,550 $133,702
Accountants and Auditors Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level II 2025-26 1 1 $99,750 $89,523
Computer Systems Analysts Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $164,700 $161,138
Database Administrators Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level III 2025-26 1 1 $150,000 $125,445
Database Architects Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $223,100 $178,069
Information Security Analysts Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level III 2025-26 1 1 $175,100 $155,771
Software Developers Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level I 2025-26 1 1 $130,000 $85,467
Software Developers Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level II 2025-26 1 1 $162,100 $108,077
Software Developers Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level III 2025-26 1 1 $157,100 $130,707
Software Developers Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $184,500 $153,317
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level III 2025-26 1 1 $147,700 $110,198
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Level IV 2025-26 1 1 $132,500 $129,022
Software Developers Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level II 2024-25 2 2 $148,650 $137,259
Software Developers Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Level not stated 2 2 $145,450 $141,554

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.