About the data

H1B Pay shows the wage each employer told the U.S. Department of Labor it would pay a worker on an H-1B, H-1B1 or E-3 visa, next to the legal minimum for that job. Everything here comes from one public source, and this page explains exactly what we do with it.

Where it comes from

Before an employer can sponsor one of these visas it must file a Labor Condition Application (LCA, Form ETA-9035) with the Department of Labor. On it the employer states the job, the place of work, the wage it will pay and the prevailing wage for the job. The Department's Office of Foreign Labor Certification publishes every decided application in its LCA disclosure data, released each quarter.

This site currently covers 554,139 filings decided from July 2025 to June 2026, by 63,826 employers. By visa type: 539,932 H-1B, 10,437 E-3 (Australia), 2,162 H-1B1 (Chile), 1,608 H-1B1 (Singapore).

Year-by-year history

Each page also shows its figures for every fiscal year since 2020, from 3,754,517 filings in 25 quarterly releases. Fiscal years run October to September and are named for the year they end in, so fiscal 2023 is October 2022 to September 2023. A filing belongs to the year its decision was issued. Fiscal 2026 is still running: it covers October 2025 to June 2026 so far.

• A year shows a median wage only when at least three of its filings were certified with a usable wage, and a job title's trend line needs five. Changes over time compare the first and last years that have five.
• Employers that filed at least 5 times since fiscal 2020, but not in the latest 12 months, have pages too (35,636 of them). Their figures cover all their filings since fiscal 2020, and each says when the employer last filed.
• Employers that renamed themselves are joined to their current name, for example Facebook, Inc. with Meta Platforms, Inc.
• Files before fiscal 2024 do not carry the employer's tax ID, so older filings are grouped by name alone. An employer whose name changed in other ways can appear as two employers in earlier years.

Offered wage and prevailing wage

• Offered wage is the pay rate the employer wrote on the filing. Where a filing gives a range, we use the bottom of it. It is base pay: bonuses, stock and benefits are not on the form.
• Prevailing wage is the minimum the law allows for that job in that area. It usually comes from the government's occupational wage survey, at one of four levels.
• vs prevailing is how far each offer sits above its own prevailing wage. We work it out filing by filing and report the median. “At the minimum” means the typical filing offers exactly the legal minimum.

The four wage levels

The government sets four prevailing wages for each occupation and area: Level I (entry), Level II (qualified), Level III (experienced) and Level IV (fully competent). The employer picks the level that fits the job's requirements. A higher level means a higher legal minimum, so the level mix on a page shows how senior the filed jobs are.

What we count

• Filings counts every decided application: certified, certified and later withdrawn, withdrawn before a decision, and denied. By outcome: 506,095 certified, 35,383 certified and later withdrawn, 9,067 withdrawn before a decision, 3,594 denied.
• Wage figures use certified filings only (including those later withdrawn). Withdrawn and denied applications are counted but never priced.
• Positions is the number of workers the certified filings cover. One filing can cover many positions, so positions can be much larger than filings. The certified filings here cover 1,026,928 positions.
• A filing is not a visa and not a hire. Employers file before they petition for a visa, and not every filing leads to one.

How wages are made comparable

Most filings state a yearly wage. Hourly wages are multiplied by 2,080, weekly by 52, bi-weekly by 26 and monthly by 12. 11,353 filings are for part-time work; their wages are shown as full-time equivalents on the same basis, so a part-time job's figure is a rate, not what the worker would take home in a year.

Yearly figures under $15,000 or over $2,000,000 are almost always typing errors on the form. 698 filings with such an offered wage are counted but left out of wage figures.

What we leave out

• People's contact details. The source files include the names, phone numbers and email addresses of employer contacts and attorneys. We never read those columns, so they cannot appear here.
• Private individuals. Filings by households and by employers named as a person are removed (51 filings).
• Very small employers. An employer needs at least 5 filings to be named or to have a page. The 121,464 employers below that are included in totals for job titles and cities but never listed.
• Duplicates. 514,454 applications appeared in two quarterly files; the later record is kept.

How employers, titles and cities are grouped

• Employers are grouped by name after removing case, punctuation and legal suffixes such as Inc or LLC, so “GOOGLE LLC” and “Google, LLC” are one employer. Separate legal entities of one company, such as Amazon.com Services and Amazon Web Services, stay separate because they file separately.
• Job titles are the employer's own words. We merge differences in case, punctuation and common abbreviations (Sr and Senior, level 2 and level II) and strip internal job codes. We do not merge titles that use different words, so similar jobs can appear under several titles.
• Cities are the worksite on the filing, which may be a client's office or a remote worker's home. Common variants such as “NYC” and “New York City” are merged.

A job title gets its own page at 25 filings from at least 3 employers, and a city at 50 filings from at least 3 employers. That gives 48,695 employer pages, 1,597 job-title pages and 1,001 city pages.

Limits you should know about

• These are attested wages, not payroll records. What a worker was actually paid can be higher.
• The data covers only jobs filed for these visas, not an employer's whole workforce.
• The Department notes that a small share of decisions change in later releases after appeals. Each quarterly update replaces our figures with the newest release.
• Filings bunch up in the first half of each year around the H-1B lottery, so counts by quarter reflect the visa calendar.

Updates and corrections

We refresh the site after each quarterly release from the Department of Labor. If you believe a page groups an employer wrongly, tell us and we will check it against the source files.

Credit

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification. The data is a work of the U.S. government and in the public domain. H1B Pay is an independent site and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Labor.