H-1B wage filings in Lake Forest, CA
Jobs with a worksite in Lake Forest, California. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
140 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas named Lake Forest, CA as the worksite from July 2025 to June 2026, from 71 employers. The median offered wage was $123,167, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for those jobs in the area. The most-filed job was Manager (9).
- Filings
- 140
- Positions covered
- 135
- Employers
- 71
- Median offered
- $123,167
- Median prevailing wage
- $115,835
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,065
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +18%
Offered wage since 2020
The median wage offered for jobs in Lake Forest, CA rose 18%, from $100,530 in fiscal 2020 to $118,528 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2021, with 203 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.
Lake Forest, CA by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 109 | $118,528 | +3.4% | $115,835 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 167 | $114,619 | +9.9% | $109,782 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 136 | $104,333 | −5.2% | $100,901 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 119 | $110,000 | no change | $98,779 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 149 | $110,000 | +1.6% | $101,878 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 203 | $108,297 | +7.7% | $99,632 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 182 | $100,530 | n/a | $95,326 | +0.2% |
Employers filing for jobs in Lake Forest
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 71. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.
Most-filed job titles in Lake Forest
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manager | 9 | $115,835 | at the minimum | |
| Computer Programmer | 6 | $99,771 | +13.6% | |
| Network Engineer | 5 | $90,000 | +17.5% | |
| Senior Manager | 4 | $152,027 | at the minimum | |
| Software Developer | 4 | $127,546 | at the minimum | |
| Health Program Coordinator | 3 | $55,370 | at the minimum | |
| Software Engineer | 3 | $102,232 | at the minimum | |
| Business Analyst | 2 | $66,934 | at the minimum | |
| Engineer | 2 | $93,978 | +4.6% | |
| Financial and Investment Analyst | 2 | $94,820 | +0.8% | |
| Game Designer | 2 | $90,480 | +0.2% | |
| Global VP, Solutions Consulting | 2 | $225,000 | +51.9% | |
| Head of Backend Technology | 2 | $399,996 | +116.7% | |
| Lead Developer | 2 | $152,800 | at the minimum | |
| Logistics Analyst | 2 | $91,354 | at the minimum | |
| Market Research Analyst | 2 | $64,000 | +2.3% | |
| Market Research Analyst and Marketing Specialist | 2 | $74,420 | +2.1% | |
| Principal I, Research & Development Process & Product Design | 2 | $137,280 | at the minimum | |
| R&D Principal Technologist | 2 | $158,735 | at the minimum | |
| R&D Principal Technologist, Product Development | 2 | $157,123 | at the minimum | |
| Software Engineer Senior | 2 | $115,820 | +48.7% | |
| Application Engineer | 1 | $215,644 | +51.5% | |
| Cloud Engineer | 1 | $157,123 | at the minimum | |
| Data Engineer | 1 | $127,000 | at the minimum | |
| Data Scientist | 1 | $101,712 | 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.