Offered wages

Visa U.S.A. Inc. — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Visa U.S.A. Inc.'s certified labor condition applications — 229 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: $153,816
25th percentile: $132,417
75th percentile: $170,288
Occupations: 23

All disclosed wages

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

25th $132,417 · median $153,816 · 75th $170,288 · 229 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	54	$121,875	$155,000	$163,750	I 3 · II 13 · IV 24 · Not stated 14
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	38	$124,167	$140,000	$177,500	I 1 · II 16 · III 3 · IV 16 · Not stated 2
15-1299.09 · Information Technology Project Managers	25	$137,813	$150,833	$185,750	II 6 · III 2 · IV 15 · Not stated 2
13-1111.00 · Management Analysts	24	$131,250	$157,500	$177,500	I 1 · II 6 · III 1 · IV 16
15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists	17	$152,321	$165,417	$168,958	II 14 · IV 3
13-1082.00 · Project Management Specialists	17	$131,563	$147,500	$166,250	II 3 · III 1 · IV 13
15-1253.00 · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers	15	$122,917	$138,750	$162,083	II 3 · III 1 · IV 9 · Not stated 2
13-2051.00 · Financial and Investment Analysts	8	$130,000	$140,000	$160,000	II 1 · III 1 · IV 4 · Not stated 2
13-1161.00 · Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists	5	$131,250	$152,500	$158,750	II 1 · IV 4
11-2021.00 · Marketing Managers	4	$160,000	$180,000	$210,000	IV 2 · Not stated 2
11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers	3	$183,750	$187,500	$216,250	IV 1 · Not stated 2
15-2031.00 · Operations Research Analysts	3	$153,750	$167,500	$181,250	IV 3
15-2051.01 · Business Intelligence Analysts	3	$138,750	$157,500	$166,250	IV 2 · Not stated 1
15-1211.00 · Computer Systems Analysts	2	$171,250	$172,500	$173,750	IV 2
15-1212.00 · Information Security Analysts	2	$152,500	$155,000	$192,500	IV 2
13-2011.00 · Accountants and Auditors	2	$147,500	$150,000	$162,500	IV 2
11-1021.00 · General and Operations Managers	1	$226,250	$227,500	$228,750	IV 1
11-3121.00 · Human Resources Managers	1	$206,250	$207,500	$208,750	Not stated 1
11-2022.00 · Sales Managers	1	$156,250	$157,500	$158,750	Not stated 1
11-3031.01 · Treasurers and Controllers	1	$146,250	$147,500	$148,750	II 1
15-1242.00 · Database Administrators	1	$131,250	$132,500	$133,750	II 1
15-1244.00 · Network and Computer Systems Administrators	1	$121,250	$122,500	$123,750	II 1
13-1081.00 · Logisticians	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	IV 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 Developers54 disclosed positions · 6 metros

25th $121,875 · median $155,000 · 75th $163,750 · 54 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 Scientists38 disclosed positions · 6 metros

25th $124,167 · median $140,000 · 75th $177,500 · 38 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 Managers25 disclosed positions · 6 metros

25th $137,813 · median $150,833 · 75th $185,750 · 25 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
Austin, TX	73	$130,125	$149,375	$161,583	14
Foster City, CA	69	$153,125	$167,292	$190,972	15
San Francisco, CA	18	$156,250	$175,000	$192,500	7
Atlanta, GA	17	$115,250	$119,500	$139,688	6
Highlands Ranch, CO	14	$121,500	$125,000	$139,167	4
New York, NY	14	$153,750	$158,750	$178,750	5
Miami, FL	9	$135,208	$137,083	$138,958	5
Washington, DC	6	$122,500	$125,000	$171,250	2
Ashburn, VA	2	$152,500	$155,000	$162,500	2
Los Angeles, CA	2	$112,500	$115,000	$157,500	2
Bellevue, WA	1	$181,250	$182,500	$183,750	1
Charlotte, NC	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	1
Foster Cty, CA	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	1
Mentor, OH	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	1
Watertown, MA	1	$211,250	$212,500	$213,750	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	5	2.2%
Level II	66	28.8%
Level III	9	3.9%
Level IV	120	52.4%
Not stated	29	12.7%

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