H-1B wage filings in Chesapeake, VA
Jobs with a worksite in Chesapeake, Virginia. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
71 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas named Chesapeake, VA as the worksite from July 2025 to June 2026, from 37 employers. The median offered wage was $111,030, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for those jobs in the area. The most-filed job was Manager (10).
- Filings
- 71
- Positions covered
- 77
- Employers
- 37
- Median offered
- $111,030
- Median prevailing wage
- $106,122
- Filings since FY2020
- 410
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +38%
Offered wage since 2020
The median wage offered for jobs in Chesapeake, VA rose 38%, from $80,259 in fiscal 2020 to $110,765 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2020, with 69 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.
Chesapeake, VA by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 62 | $110,765 | +7.7% | $103,126 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 55 | $102,887 | +2.7% | $90,636 | +5.4% |
| 2024 | 65 | $100,150 | −4.6% | $95,534 | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 53 | $105,000 | +6.8% | $95,534 | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 68 | $98,322 | +3.5% | $91,728 | +0.5% |
| 2021 | 38 | $95,000 | +18.4% | $82,742 | +4.7% |
| 2020 | 69 | $80,259 | n/a | $79,934 | at the minimum |
Employers filing for jobs in Chesapeake
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 37. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.
Most-filed job titles in Chesapeake
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manager | 10 | $111,030 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Associate | 7 | $92,456 | at the minimum | |
| Business Analyst | 3 | $90,000 | +26.5% | |
| Project Manager | 3 | $125,632 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Manager | 3 | $126,922 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Pediatric Dentist | 2 | $350,000 | +74.5% | |
| Dentist | 2 | $199,575 | +12.0% | |
| Engagement Manager, Tech | 2 | $150,000 | +20.5% | |
| Senior Application Developer | 2 | $156,640 | +6.2% | |
| Senior Software Engineer | 2 | $117,000 | +5.9% | |
| Aftermarket Engineer | 1 | $88,000 | +0.7% | |
| Associate Orthodontist | 1 | $340,000 | +42.1% | |
| Associate Paraplanner | 1 | $58,000 | +1.2% | |
| Chairman of the Board | 1 | $239,400 | +0.1% | |
| Compliance Officer | 1 | $62,421 | at the minimum | |
| Corporate Project Manager - Engineering | 1 | $120,000 | +3.2% | |
| CRM & Software Developer | 1 | $86,400 | +6.7% | |
| Data Analyst | 1 | $90,210 | at the minimum | |
| Data Architect | 1 | $93,600 | +27.2% | |
| Data Engineer Principal | 1 | $149,926 | at the minimum | |
| Dentist (Endodontics) | 1 | $390,000 | +113.1% | |
| Dentistry Fellow | 1 | $58,698 | at the minimum | |
| Engineering Management Analyst | 1 | $86,000 | +0.8% | |
| Financial and Investment Analysts | 1 | $244,400 | +141.7% | |
| Full Stack Network Engineer/Admin | 1 | $82,742 | 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.