American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company H-1B wage filings

West Des Moines, IA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company filed 9 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $123,429, 14.5% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
9
Positions covered
9
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
6
Worksite cities
5
Filings since FY2021
31
Median offer change since FY2024
+8%

Offered wage since 2021

American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company's median H-1B wage offer rose 8%, from $112,000 in fiscal 2024 to $121,490 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 9.6% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 11 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$40k$60k$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k$80k$115k$112k$102k$121k2202142022320235202411202562026*

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

American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)6$121,490+19.1%$105,935+9.6%
202511$102,000−8.9%$75,546+14.5%
20245$112,000−2.6%$84,677at the minimum
20233$115,000+44.3%$67,850+69.5%
20224$79,668n/a$49,432+44.0%
20212n/an/an/an/a

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Cloud Engineer I2$123,339+11.0%
Data Engineer I2$93,388+11.6%
Senior Application Developer - Salesforce2$140,000+24.3%
Associate Actuary1$155,000+3.9%
Automation Engineer1$103,049+11.8%
Director Actuary1$190,500+27.7%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Des Moines, IA3$155,000
Vernon Hills, IL2$123,339
West Des Moines, IA2$140,000
Apple Valley, MN1$119,550
Bothell, WA1$103,049

By visa type: 9 H-1B. By outcome: 8 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20253
Oct to Dec 20252
Apr to Jun 20264

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, entry25%
Level II, qualified13%
Level III, experienced38%
Level IV, fully competent25%

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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