AArete, LLC H-1B wage filings

Chicago, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Also filed as AArete, Inc..

AArete, LLC filed 5 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $142,500, 5.6% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
5
Positions covered
5
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
3
Worksite cities
3
Filings since FY2020
58
Median offer change since FY2020
−49%

Offered wage since 2020

AArete, LLC's median H-1B wage offer fell 49%, from $262,500 in fiscal 2020 to $133,500 in fiscal 2025. In fiscal 2025 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2024, with 22 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$0k$100k$200k$300k$400k$263k$98k$102k$191k$143k$134k$143k6202052021720224202322202410202542026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

AArete, LLC by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)4$142,500+6.7%$134,971+5.6%
202510$133,500−6.8%$127,878at the minimum
202422$143,250−25.0%$120,183+9.1%
20234$191,000+87.7%$139,776+36.6%
20227$101,754+3.8%$83,470at the minimum
20215$98,000−62.7%$89,898at the minimum
20206$262,500n/a$120,973+111.0%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Manager, Data Architecture & Engineering2$164,500+21.9%
Senior Consultant, Application Development2$142,500+5.6%
Analyst1$77,500+4.3%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Frisco, TX2$142,500
Little Elm, TX2$164,500
Chicago, IL1$77,500

By visa type: 5 H-1B. By outcome: 5 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20251
Oct to Dec 20253
Apr to Jun 20261

Across all employers, filings bunch up in the first half of each year around the annual H-1B lottery, so compare a quarter with the same quarter a year earlier, not with the one before it.

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry20%
Level II, qualified0%
Level III, experienced80%
Level IV, fully competent0%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.

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