With 1.5 million associates across the US, Walmart is known for its massive in-store workforce.
But the big-box chain is making major gains in the tech sector as well. Back in August, the company reported soaring sales compared with last year, with e-commerce sales nearly doubling.
On Thursday, the company announced that it will launch livestream shopping on video-focused social media platform TikTok. Previously, Walmart announced its intent to purchase a 7.5% stake in TikTok.
The chain also launched its Amazon Prime competitor, Walmart Plus, in September. CEO Doug McMillon said the new subscription service would provide the chain with a wealth of shopper-behavior data.
Business Insider analyzed the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification's 2020 disclosure data for permanent and temporary foreign workers to see how much Walmart paid employees for various tech-focused roles in different categories. The Office of Foreign Labor Certification discloses salary data each year after US companies report how much base compensation workers are offered when filing paperwork for visas on behalf of current or prospective foreign workers.
For the US, Walmart applied for 1,585 H-1B visas for these and other roles. Listed jobs were in multiple states across the US. Walmart did not return a request for comment for this story.
In general, Walmart's tech salaries are similar to those in other tech-focused industries. For example, software engineers' base salaries at Google and Amazon is generally about $177,933 and $155,086, respectively, according to Glassdoor. At Walmart, senior software engineers can make between $122,400 and $170,000.
In other cases, similar job descriptions for Walmart and other companies appear to have a bit more disparity in pay. For example, while an engineering manager at Walmart can make between $100,000 and $213,116, the same role at Google and Facebook offers average base salaries of $202,864 and $216,650, respectively, according to Glassdoor.
From software engineer to data scientist, here are the annual salaries, salary ranges, and averages for different tech-focused jobs at Walmart.
Software-engineering roles:
- Software engineer: $75,712 to $150,000
- Senior software engineer: $122,400 to $170,000
- Principal software engineer: $184,369 (average)
- Staff software engineer: $160,025 (average)
- Back-end software engineer: $125,000
- Software quality assurance engineer: $128,600
Network-engineering roles
- Cybersecurity network engineer: $105,000
- Network engineer III: $130,000
- Staff network engineer: $154,432
Quality-engineering roles:
- Quality engineer: $80,800 to $92,961
- Senior quality engineer: $127,474 to $145,000 (approximate)
- Staff quality engineer: $162,000
Systems-engineering roles:
- Systems engineer: $76,700 to $114,138 (approximate)
- Senior systems engineer: $112,575 to $149,500
- Staff systems engineer: $153,812.78 (average)
Mobile-engineering roles:
- Senior mobile engineer: $160,000
- Staff mobile engineer: $175,000
- Staff mobile-automation engineer: $197,000
Data and database roles:
- Data engineer: $76,833 to $130,000 (approximate)
- Staff data engineer: $144,754 (average)
- Senior database engineer: $161,634
- Staff database engineer: $181,887
- Data scientist: $117,875 (average)
- Senior data scientist: $135,084 to $152,471 (approximate)
- Principal data scientist: $130,000
Other tech roles:
- Dynamic defense engineer, cybersecurity: $96,900
- Full-stack developer: $92,000
- iOS engineer: $167,500
- Machine-learning engineer: $142,500 (average)
Director and managerial roles:
- Director, software engineering: $208,534 (average)
- Senior manager, software engineer: $100,000 to $213,116 (average)
- Senior manager, data engineering: $165,000
- Senior manager, data scientist: $131,227
