Offered wages

Bloomberg L.P. — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Bloomberg L.P.'s certified labor condition applications — 825 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: $160,462
25th percentile: $132,571
75th percentile: $163,486
Occupations: 23

All disclosed wages

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

25th $132,571 · median $160,462 · 75th $163,486 · 825 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 positions	25th	Median	75th	Prevailing wage level
15-1252.00 · Software Developers	683	$132,549	$160,095	$162,599	II 28 · III 67
11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers	93	$186,277	$187,555	$188,832	II 22 · III 1
15-2051.01 · Business Intelligence Analysts	10	$109,167	$136,429	$138,214	II 3 · III 7
15-1299.09 · Information Technology Project Managers	6	$126,500	$128,000	$129,500	III 5 · IV 1
15-1253.00 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers	6	$102,500	$105,000	$127,500	II 3 · III 3
27-3041.00 · Editors	4	$95,000	$116,667	$118,333	II 1 · III 3
13-2099.01 · Financial Quantitative Analysts	3	$111,875	$113,750	$151,250	II 2 · III 1
15-1241.00 · Computer Network Architects	2	$127,500	$130,000	$152,500	II 1 · III 1
11-2022.00 · Sales Managers	2	$127,500	$130,000	$187,500	I 1 · II 1
15-1212.00 · Information Security Analysts	2	$122,500	$125,000	$147,500	II 1 · III 1
15-1299.08 · Computer Systems Engineers/Architects	2	$92,500	$95,000	$127,500	II 1 · III 1
19-3011.01 · Environmental Economists	1	$181,250	$182,500	$183,750	III 1
13-2054.00 · Financial Risk Specialists	1	$156,250	$157,500	$158,750	III 1
13-1111.00 · Management Analysts	1	$156,250	$157,500	$158,750	IV 1
15-1244.00 · Network and Computer Systems Administrators	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	III 1
13-2051.00 · Financial and Investment Analysts	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	II 1
13-2099.00 · Financial Specialists, All Other	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	II 1
15-2021.00 · Mathematicians	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	III 1
17-2199.08 · Robotics Engineers	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	II 1
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	II 1
17-2141.00 · Mechanical Engineers	1	$101,250	$102,500	$103,750	II 1
27-2012.00 · Producers and Directors	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
27-3023.00 · News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 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 Developers683 disclosed positions · 4 metros

25th $132,549 · median $160,095 · 75th $162,599 · 683 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 Managers93 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $186,277 · median $187,555 · 75th $188,832 · 93 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.

15-2051.01 · Business Intelligence Analysts10 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $109,167 · median $136,429 · 75th $138,214 · 10 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 area	Disclosed positions	25th	Median	75th	Occupations
New York, NY	733	$132,512	$160,369	$163,518	22
Princeton, NJ	84	$133,167	$160,918	$163,061	5
San Francisco, CA	4	$165,000	$186,667	$188,333	1
Dayton, NJ	2	$127,500	$130,000	$152,500	2
Bothell, WA	1	$181,250	$182,500	$183,750	1
Totowa, NJ	1	$101,250	$102,500	$103,750	1

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.
Level	Positions	Share
Level I	3	1.8%
Level II	68	40.7%
Level III	94	56.3%
Level IV	2	1.2%

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 (825 positions); no median is stored anywhere in the dataset. How the derivation works.