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Offered wages

BEST BUY CO., INC. — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on BEST BUY CO., INC.'s certified labor condition applications — 82 positions — grouped into $5,000 bands and cut by occupation and by metro. Percentiles are computed from those bands at read time.

Full filing record
Median offered wage
$154,167

Interpolated inside a $5,000 band, so it reads as a point in a range rather than a salary anyone was paid.

82 disclosed positions

25th percentile
$137,500

A quarter of disclosed positions were offered less than this.

75th percentile
$179,167

A quarter of disclosed positions were offered more than this.

Occupations
14

Distinct SOC codes with at least one disclosed wage.

All disclosed wages

The whole distribution, every occupation together. The dashed line is the median, derived from these bands.

BEST BUY CO., INC. — offered wage distributionBEST BUY CO., INC.: wage distribution across 82 disclosed positions, from $80k to $250k, median $154,167.median $154k$80k$250k

25th $137,500 · median $154,167 · 75th $179,167 · 82 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

By occupation

Each SOC code the employer filed under, with its own percentiles derived from its own bands.

Percentiles are computed per occupation from that occupation's bands. They do not average to the figure above, and they are not supposed to — the all-occupations figure is the summed distribution, not the mean of these rows.
Occupation (SOC)Disclosed positions25thMedian75thPrevailing wage level
15-1252.00 · Software Developers42$135,625$151,667$169,167I 4 · II 13 · III 1 · IV 18 · Not stated 6
11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers12$170,000$192,500$205,000II 4 · IV 3 · Not stated 5
15-1253.00 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers5$141,250$162,500$168,750II 1 · III 1 · IV 3
15-1299.08 · Computer Systems Engineers/Architects5$153,125$162,500$168,750II 1 · IV 4
15-1211.00 · Computer Systems Analysts5$135,625$138,750$143,750II 4 · IV 1
15-1299.09 · Information Technology Project Managers5$127,083$129,167$133,750II 2 · III 2 · IV 1
15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists1$201,250$202,500$203,750IV 1
15-1244.00 · Network and Computer Systems Administrators1$196,250$197,500$198,750IV 1
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists1$186,250$187,500$188,750III 1
13-1161.00 · Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists1$161,250$162,500$163,750II 1
13-1111.00 · Management Analysts1$146,250$147,500$148,750II 1
15-2051.01 · Business Intelligence Analysts1$146,250$147,500$148,750III 1
15-1212.00 · Information Security Analysts1$126,250$127,500$128,750Not stated 1
13-2011.00 · Accountants and Auditors1$81,250$82,500$83,750I 1

Rows with fewer than 5 disclosed positions are shown because they are real filings, but a percentile over that few offers is an anecdote rather than a range. The disclosed-position column is there so you can tell which is which.

Largest occupations in detail

The same bands, drawn. Shape matters: two occupations with the same median can pay very differently at the edges.

15-1252.00 · Software Developers42 disclosed positions · 1 metro

BEST BUY CO., INC. — 15-1252.00 · Software Developers — offered wage distributionBEST BUY CO., INC. — 15-1252.00 · Software Developers: wage distribution across 42 disclosed positions, from $115k to $205k, median $151,667.median $152k$115k$205k

25th $135,625 · median $151,667 · 75th $169,167 · 42 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers12 disclosed positions · 1 metro

BEST BUY CO., INC. — 11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers — offered wage distributionBEST BUY CO., INC. — 11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers: wage distribution across 12 disclosed positions, from $150k to $245k, median $192,500.median $193k$150k$245k

25th $170,000 · median $192,500 · 75th $205,000 · 12 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

15-1253.00 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers5 disclosed positions · 1 metro

BEST BUY CO., INC. — 15-1253.00 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers — offered wage distributionBEST BUY CO., INC. — 15-1253.00 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers: wage distribution across 5 disclosed positions, from $135k to $205k, median $162,500.median $163k$135k$205k

25th $141,250 · median $162,500 · 75th $168,750 · 5 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

By metro area

The same wages cut by where the work is, from the metro half of each stored band key.

Only bands recorded against a named city and state appear here, so these rows can sum to less than the total above.
Metro areaDisclosed positions25thMedian75thOccupations
Richfield, MN80$137,857$154,167$180,00013
Bellevue, WA1$126,250$127,500$128,7501
Seattle, WA1$161,250$162,500$163,7501

Prevailing wage levels

Level I is entry, level IV is fully competent and independent. The level sets the legal floor the offered wage has to clear.

A level-heavy split toward I and II means the roles were filed as junior, whatever the job title says.
LevelPositionsShare
Level I56.1%
Level II2732.9%
Level III67.3%
Level IV3239.0%
Not stated1214.6%

Wages here are the OFFERED WAGE on the labor condition application — a commitment the employer made to the Department of Labor, not anyone’s actual compensation, and it excludes bonus and equity. Every percentile on this page is computed at render time from stored $5,000 band counts (82 positions); no median is stored anywhere in the dataset. How the derivation works.