H-1B wage filings in Lake Forest, IL
Jobs with a worksite in Lake Forest, Illinois. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
167 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas named Lake Forest, IL as the worksite from July 2025 to June 2026, from 34 employers. The median offered wage was $134,798, 10.5% above the government's prevailing wage for those jobs in the area. The most-filed job was Software Engineer (21).
- Filings
- 167
- Positions covered
- 164
- Employers
- 34
- Median offered
- $134,798
- Median prevailing wage
- $117,582
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,270
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +40%
Offered wage since 2020
The median wage offered for jobs in Lake Forest, IL rose 40%, from $96,288 in fiscal 2020 to $134,798 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 10.4% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2020, with 267 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, IL by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 112 | $134,798 | +8.9% | $119,558 | +10.4% |
| 2025 | 206 | $123,800 | +2.4% | $108,400 | +7.4% |
| 2024 | 164 | $120,871 | −3.3% | $102,690 | +8.9% |
| 2023 | 146 | $125,000 | +8.7% | $114,067 | +9.0% |
| 2022 | 196 | $115,000 | +8.2% | $90,397 | +11.2% |
| 2021 | 179 | $106,300 | +10.4% | $87,838 | +11.0% |
| 2020 | 267 | $96,288 | n/a | $81,931 | +3.9% |
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 34. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 21 | $147,069 | +13.2% | |
| Senior Applied Machine Learning Scientist | 9 | $175,000 | +33.8% | |
| Data Engineer | 8 | $148,322 | +9.5% | |
| Applied Machine Learning Scientist | 7 | $142,763 | +12.5% | |
| Senior Data Scientist | 6 | $144,085 | +14.7% | |
| Quality Engineer | 4 | $131,723 | +12.4% | |
| SAP Consultant | 4 | $112,923 | +4.5% | |
| Software Engineer III | 4 | $141,500 | +7.2% | |
| Business Systems Engineer Senior, GUS | 3 | $137,245 | +7.9% | |
| Data Scientist | 3 | $103,246 | +15.1% | |
| Manager | 3 | $107,640 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Demand Planner, Supply Chain Planning | 3 | $83,600 | +9.5% | |
| Software Developer | 3 | $108,250 | +0.2% | |
| Analyst Marketing Optimization | 2 | $78,833 | +24.0% | |
| Associate Dean of Students & Director of Residence Life | 2 | $65,624 | at the minimum | |
| Engineer II | 2 | $88,858 | at the minimum | |
| Information Technology Project Manager | 2 | $95,243 | at the minimum | |
| Management Analyst | 2 | $81,547 | at the minimum | |
| Manager - Agile and PLM Systems | 2 | $166,321 | +3.5% | |
| Manager, Investment Operations | 2 | $135,000 | +15.4% | |
| Manager, Product Engineering | 2 | $186,427 | +12.3% | |
| Security Engineer | 2 | $141,625 | +31.6% | |
| Senior Associate | 2 | $82,846 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Business Systems Analyst – SAP | 2 | $130,000 | +34.7% | |
| Senior Business Systems Engineer | 2 | $146,575 | +17.6% | |
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.