Offered wages

BNSF Railway Company — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on BNSF Railway Company's certified labor condition applications — 19 positions — grouped into $5,000 bands and cut by occupation and by metro. Percentiles are computed from those bands at read time.

Median offered wage
$168,611

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

19 disclosed positions

25th percentile
$165,972

A quarter of disclosed positions were offered less than this.

75th percentile
$236,250

A quarter of disclosed positions were offered more than this.

Occupations
5

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.

BNSF Railway Company — offered wage distributionBNSF Railway Company: wage distribution across 19 disclosed positions, from $90k to $320k, median $168,611.median $169k$90k$320k

25th $165,972 · median $168,611 · 75th $236,250 · 19 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 Developers8$166,250$168,750$215,000II 1 · IV 7
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists6$165,625$167,500$169,375I 1 · IV 5
11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers3$178,750$262,500$316,250IV 3
15-1299.05 · Information Security Engineers1$166,250$167,500$168,750IV 1
15-2031.00 · Operations Research Analysts1$101,250$102,500$103,750II 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 Developers8 disclosed positions · 8 metros

BNSF Railway Company — 15-1252.00 · Software Developers — offered wage distributionBNSF Railway Company — 15-1252.00 · Software Developers: wage distribution across 8 disclosed positions, from $120k to $245k, median $168,750.median $169k$120k$245k

25th $166,250 · median $168,750 · 75th $215,000 · 8 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.

15-2051.00 · Data Scientists6 disclosed positions · 5 metros

BNSF Railway Company — 15-2051.00 · Data Scientists — offered wage distributionBNSF Railway Company — 15-2051.00 · Data Scientists: wage distribution across 6 disclosed positions, from $90k to $240k, median $167,500.median $168k$90k$240k

25th $165,625 · median $167,500 · 75th $169,375 · 6 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
Leander, TX3$166,250$167,500$168,7502
Aubrey, TX1$166,250$167,500$168,7501
Bellevue, WA1$211,250$212,500$213,7501
Buford, GA1$236,250$237,500$238,7501
Celina, TX1$166,250$167,500$168,7501
Fremont, CA1$101,250$102,500$103,7501
Little Elm, TX1$91,250$92,500$93,7501
Lynnwood, WA1$241,250$242,500$243,7501
Melbourne, FL1$121,250$122,500$123,7501
Mountain House, CA1$166,250$167,500$168,7501
Odessa, TX1$176,250$177,500$178,7501
Prosper, TX1$166,250$167,500$168,7501
Redmond, WA1$316,250$317,500$318,7501
Round Rock, TX1$241,250$242,500$243,7501
Secaucus, NJ1$261,250$262,500$263,7501
St Peters, MO1$166,250$167,500$168,7501
Wylie, TX1$166,250$167,500$168,7501

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 I15.3%
Level II210.5%
Level IV1684.2%

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