H-1B wage filings in Bellingham, WA
Jobs with a worksite in Bellingham, Washington. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
66 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas named Bellingham, WA as the worksite from July 2025 to June 2026, from 35 employers. The median offered wage was $128,510, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for those jobs in the area. The most-filed job was Assistant Professor of Special Education (2).
- Filings
- 66
- Positions covered
- 63
- Employers
- 35
- Median offered
- $128,510
- Median prevailing wage
- $98,779
- Filings since FY2020
- 420
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +32%
Offered wage since 2020
The median wage offered for jobs in Bellingham, WA rose 32%, from $97,427 in fiscal 2020 to $128,510 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2024, with 72 filings.
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year
Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.
Bellingham, WA by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 58 | $128,510 | +25.9% | $98,779 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 69 | $102,097 | +7.6% | $97,756 | +1.1% |
| 2024 | 72 | $94,929 | −12.8% | $88,868 | +4.0% |
| 2023 | 64 | $108,826 | +16.5% | $92,456 | +3.2% |
| 2022 | 58 | $93,434 | +1.9% | $90,999 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 56 | $91,710 | −5.9% | $83,417 | +1.2% |
| 2020 | 43 | $97,427 | n/a | $93,965 | at the minimum |
Employers filing for jobs in Bellingham
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
| Employer | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Washington University | 19 | $70,000 | at the minimum | |
| PeaceHealth | 9 | $185,516 | +7.7% | |
| Microsoft Corporation | 2 | $150,859 | +28.8% | |
| Stack AV Co | 2 | $185,400 | +13.9% | |
| Conveyor Dynamics, Inc. | 2 | $132,000 | +28.8% | |
| Pyramid Technology Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $128,565 | at the minimum | |
| Cloudera, Inc. | 1 | $227,500 | +56.2% | |
| Amazon.com Services LLC | 1 | $151,400 | +20.5% | |
| Battelle Memorial Institute | 1 | $136,312 | +86.5% | |
| Msci, Inc. | 1 | $132,000 | +12.7% | |
| Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. | 1 | $97,403 | at the minimum | |
| Teradata Operations, Inc. | 1 | $162,739 | at the minimum | |
| South Sound Inpatient Physicians, PLLC | 1 | $294,653 | +131.8% | |
| PathAI, Inc. | 1 | $148,000 | +154.9% | |
| Compass Health, Inc. | 1 | $65,541 | at the minimum | |
| Payroc WorldAccess, LLC | 1 | $100,000 | +14.0% | |
| Yanka Industries, Inc. | 1 | $190,000 | +92.3% | |
| d-Matrix, Inc. (fka d-Matrix Corporation) | 1 | $217,630 | +67.6% | |
| Navan, Inc. | 1 | $162,739 | at the minimum | |
| Benchling, Inc. | 1 | $170,000 | +4.5% | |
| Patrick Industries, Inc. | 1 | $65,603 | at the minimum | |
| EAB Global, Inc. | 1 | $115,000 | +23.3% | |
| Solana Labs, Inc. | 1 | $204,000 | +25.4% | |
| Accenture LLP | 1 | $137,000 | +22.1% | |
Showing the 24 employers with the most filings of 35. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.
Most-filed job titles in Bellingham
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor of Special Education | 2 | $70,000 | at the minimum | |
| Dance Program Instructor | 2 | $62,400 | at the minimum | |
| Mechanical Engineer | 2 | $132,000 | +28.8% | |
| Minister | 2 | $128,510 | +76.6% | |
| Physician (Neurohospitalist) | 2 | $239,200 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer | 2 | $185,400 | +13.9% | |
| Software Dev Engineer III | 2 | $128,565 | at the minimum | |
| Software Engineer | 2 | $135,000 | +9.2% | |
| Software Engineering | 2 | $150,859 | +28.8% | |
| AI Engineer | 1 | $145,000 | +3.6% | |
| Asst Prof, Elem Edu w/ emph on Children’s & Young Adult Lit | 1 | $70,000 | at the minimum | |
| Asst Prof of English (Writing Studies & Rhetoric & Comp) | 1 | $70,000 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Prof of Math Edu w/ an Early Childhood Edu Focus | 1 | $75,000 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor - Interpersonal Communication | 1 | $80,000 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering | 1 | $90,000 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Attorney | 1 | $81,682 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Professor - Chemistry Education | 1 | $75,000 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Professor - East Asian Lang and Cultures (Chinese) | 1 | $84,305 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Professor, Intercultural Communication | 1 | $65,000 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Professor - Interpersonal Communication | 1 | $80,000 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Professor of South Asian History | 1 | $85,000 | at the minimum | |
| Clinical Director | 1 | $125,000 | +15.6% | |
| Clinician II | 1 | $65,541 | at the minimum | |
| Computer Scientist | 1 | $136,312 | +86.5% | |
| Construction Estimator | 1 | $60,549 | at the minimum | |
Seniority of the jobs filed
The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.
What these numbers are
- They are wages employers attested to on Labor Condition Applications (Form ETA-9035), not paychecks. Bonuses and stock are not included.
- A filing is not a visa or a hire. One filing can cover several positions, and some are later withdrawn. Wage figures use certified filings only.
- The prevailing wage is the minimum the employer must pay for that job in that area, set from government wage surveys.
- The city is the worksite on the filing, which can be a client's office or a remote worker's home, not the employer's headquarters.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.