Offered wages

OpenAI OpCo, LLC — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on OpenAI OpCo, LLC's certified labor condition applications — 427 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: $251,193
25th percentile: $174,287
75th percentile: $254,681
Occupations: 25

All disclosed wages

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

25th $174,287 · median $251,193 · 75th $254,681 · 427 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	165	$173,438	$251,250	$254,577	II 35 · III 13 · IV 1
15-1299.09 · Information Technology Project Managers	77	$173,208	$250,083	$253,292	II 4 · III 8 · IV 7
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	72	$173,000	$251,000	$254,000	II 2 · III 2 · IV 10
15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists	64	$177,667	$250,167	$252,833	II 3 · III 1 · IV 2
17-2061.00 · Computer Hardware Engineers	10	$314,167	$382,500	$397,500	II 7 · III 1 · IV 2
17-2141.00 · Mechanical Engineers	5	$383,125	$397,500	$463,750	II 1 · III 3 · IV 1
15-2031.00 · Operations Research Analysts	4	$225,000	$305,000	$330,000	II 2 · III 1 · IV 1
27-1024.00 · Graphic Designers	3	$311,250	$312,500	$313,750	III 3
13-1082.00 · Project Management Specialists	3	$253,750	$262,500	$281,250	III 1 · IV 2
17-2071.00 · Electrical Engineers	2	$381,250	$382,500	$383,750	III 2
15-2051.01 · Business Intelligence Analysts	2	$272,500	$275,000	$342,500	IV 2
15-1255.00 · Web and Digital Interface Designers	2	$247,500	$250,000	$312,500	II 1 · III 1
15-1212.00 · Information Security Analysts	2	$242,500	$245,000	$492,500	IV 2
13-2011.00 · Accountants and Auditors	2	$192,500	$195,000	$242,500	III 1 · IV 1
13-1071.00 · Human Resources Specialists	2	$172,500	$175,000	$262,500	IV 2
11-2022.00 · Sales Managers	2	$167,500	$170,000	$352,500	II 2
11-2021.00 · Marketing Managers	2	$147,500	$150,000	$192,500	I 1 · II 1
11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers	1	$351,250	$352,500	$353,750	III 1
23-1011.00 · Lawyers	1	$346,250	$347,500	$348,750	I 1
15-1299.05 · Information Security Engineers	1	$326,250	$327,500	$328,750	III 1
13-1161.00 · Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists	1	$316,250	$317,500	$318,750	IV 1
17-2199.08 · Robotics Engineers	1	$311,250	$312,500	$313,750	III 1
19-3011.00 · Economists	1	$266,250	$267,500	$268,750	I 1
11-9199.02 · Compliance Managers	1	$211,250	$212,500	$213,750	III 1
15-1299.08 · Computer Systems Engineers/Architects	1	$121,250	$122,500	$123,750	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 Developers165 disclosed positions · 4 metros

25th $173,438 · median $251,250 · 75th $254,577 · 165 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.

15-1299.09 · Information Technology Project Managers77 disclosed positions · 3 metros

25th $173,208 · median $250,083 · 75th $253,292 · 77 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 Scientists72 disclosed positions · 3 metros

25th $173,000 · median $251,000 · 75th $254,000 · 72 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
San Francisco, CA	364	$173,708	$250,650	$254,350	22
San Franciso, CA	30	$251,250	$252,500	$253,750	1
Bellevue, WA	23	$213,125	$257,188	$325,625	6
New York, NY	8	$265,000	$290,000	$327,500	6
Los Angeles, CA	1	$171,250	$172,500	$173,750	1
Mooresville, NC	1	$231,250	$232,500	$233,750	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	4	2.9%
Level II	58	42.3%
Level III	41	29.9%
Level IV	34	24.8%

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