H-1B wage filings in Winston Salem, NC
Jobs with a worksite in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
117 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas named Winston Salem, NC as the worksite from July 2025 to June 2026, from 35 employers. The median offered wage was $85,820, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for those jobs in the area. The most-filed job was Assistant Professor (17).
- Filings
- 117
- Positions covered
- 121
- Employers
- 35
- Median offered
- $85,820
- Median prevailing wage
- $77,419
- Filings since FY2020
- 977
- Median offer change since FY2020
- −1%
Offered wage since 2020
The median wage offered for jobs in Winston Salem, NC fell 1%, from $83,277 in fiscal 2020 to $82,580 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2020, with 204 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.
Winston Salem, NC by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 95 | $82,580 | −9.2% | $72,182 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 118 | $90,938 | +1.4% | $85,987 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 123 | $89,648 | +4.0% | $80,538 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 137 | $86,200 | +2.3% | $80,538 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 137 | $84,240 | −0.9% | $76,794 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 163 | $85,000 | +2.1% | $81,702 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 204 | $83,277 | n/a | $75,795 | at the minimum |
Employers filing for jobs in Winston Salem
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
Showing the 25 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 Winston Salem
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor | 17 | $79,462 | at the minimum | |
| Manager | 6 | $101,941 | at the minimum | |
| Research Fellow | 5 | $64,896 | +6.4% | |
| Manager, Data Analytics | 4 | $116,691 | +11.3% | |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow | 4 | $53,310 | at the minimum | |
| Business Analyst | 3 | $83,000 | +0.2% | |
| Assistant Professor of Politics & International Affairs | 2 | $67,777 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Teaching Professor | 2 | $68,283 | at the minimum | |
| Clinical Assistant Professor - Hospitalist | 2 | $242,250 | +130.4% | |
| Data Scientist | 2 | $91,297 | +43.7% | |
| Faculty Physician (Pediatric Gastroenterology) | 2 | $214,000 | +117.4% | |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow-Chemistry | 2 | $53,102 | at the minimum | |
| Project Manager II | 2 | $135,000 | +53.1% | |
| Senior Architect | 2 | $105,633 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Software Developer | 2 | $142,500 | +14.5% | |
| Academic Faculty Physician | 1 | $387,774 | +268.7% | |
| Account Delivery Head (ADH) L2 | 1 | $123,240 | at the minimum | |
| Alternative Media Specialist (Instructional Coordinator) | 1 | $55,245 | +0.5% | |
| Analyst, Business Data | 1 | $100,984 | +22.9% | |
| Application Developer | 1 | $84,739 | at the minimum | |
| Architect I - Enterprise Solutions | 1 | $118,000 | +51.9% | |
| Architectural Designer I | 1 | $65,000 | +7.0% | |
| Assistant Director of Graduate & International Admissions | 1 | $63,357 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor of English | 1 | $64,993 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor of History | 1 | $61,513 | 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.