Akuna Capital, LLC H-1B wage filings
Chicago, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Akuna Capital, LLC filed 52 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $155,000, 87.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Junior Trader (10 filings, median $165,000).
- Filings
- 52
- Positions covered
- 51
- Certified
- 98.1%
- Job titles
- 22
- Worksite cities
- 3
- Filings since FY2020
- 304
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +60%
Offered wage since 2020
Akuna Capital, LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 60%, from $100,000 in fiscal 2020 to $160,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 87.2% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 61 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.
Akuna Capital, LLC by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 43 | $160,000 | +14.3% | $84,375 | +87.2% |
| 2025 | 47 | $140,000 | no change | $85,363 | +49.0% |
| 2024 | 33 | $140,000 | +50.5% | $83,283 | +46.8% |
| 2023 | 47 | $93,028 | −24.1% | $81,744 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 61 | $122,500 | +2.1% | $107,931 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 42 | $120,000 | +20.0% | $91,125 | +24.3% |
| 2020 | 31 | $100,000 | n/a | $81,931 | +22.1% |
Offered wage by job title
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing | Median since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Trader | 10 | $165,000 | +201.7% | +27% since 2025 | |
| Quantitative Researcher | 6 | $154,500 | +43.0% | +50% since 2023 | |
| Software Engineer III | 4 | $153,317 | +37.8% | ||
| Quantitative Trader | 3 | $175,000 | +146.9% | ||
| Trader | 3 | $140,000 | +79.6% | ||
| Junior Quantitative Researcher | 2 | $154,600 | +105.9% | ||
| Network Engineer | 2 | $120,351 | +28.4% | ||
| Quantitative Developer | 2 | $152,500 | +90.4% | ||
| Quantitative Strategist | 2 | $140,000 | +112.4% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 2 | $150,000 | +14.8% | ||
| Software Engineer II- FPGA Team | 2 | $170,000 | +98.9% | ||
| Software Engineer II, Middle Office Team | 2 | $160,000 | +87.2% | ||
| Software Engineer II -UI Team | 2 | $160,000 | +87.2% | ||
| Staff Software Engineer | 2 | $172,250 | +12.3% | ||
| Floor Trader | 1 | $133,900 | +42.5% | ||
| Hardware Engineer 3 | 1 | $144,200 | +78.0% | ||
| Immigration Specialist | 1 | $65,354 | at the minimum | ||
| Junior Quantitative Developer | 1 | $165,000 | +201.7% | ||
| Platform Engineer III | 1 | $155,000 | +43.4% | ||
| Senior Engineering Manager (Senior Developer) | 1 | $150,000 | +48.2% | ||
| Senior Quantitative Trader | 1 | $150,000 | +48.2% | ||
| Software Engineer II, Strategy team (Passive Strategies) | 1 | $170,000 | +98.9% | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago, IL | 50 | $155,000 |
| Allston, MA | 1 | $144,200 |
| Boston, MA | 1 | $165,000 |
By visa type: 47 H-1B, 5 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 42 certified, 9 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision.
Filings by quarter
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
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 Akuna Capital, LLC 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.
- On 90.4% of its filings, Akuna Capital, LLC declared itself an H-1B-dependent employer: one where H-1B workers make up a large share of staff, which adds hiring obligations.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.