Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP H-1B wage filings

Washington, DC. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP filed 9 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $285,000, 51.1% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior Associate (3 filings, median $420,000).

Filings
9
Positions covered
8
Certified
88.9%
Job titles
6
Worksite cities
4
Filings since FY2020
48
Median offer change since FY2020
+50%

Offered wage since 2020

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's median H-1B wage offer rose 50%, from $190,000 in fiscal 2020 to $285,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 51.1% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 12 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$100k$200k$300k$400k$500k$190k$190k$215k$295k$260k$260k$285k520204202112202272023320248202592026*

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

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)9$285,000+9.6%$153,858+51.1%
20258$260,000no change$212,826+22.2%
20243$260,000−11.9%$241,571+7.6%
20237$295,000+37.2%$223,870+29.9%
202212$215,000+13.2%$180,170+64.4%
20214$190,000no change$131,310+35.4%
20205$190,000n/a$126,006+50.8%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Senior Associate3$420,000+190.6%
Associate2$285,000+19.8%
Associate, Intellectual Property & Technology1$225,000+49.1%
Associate, White Collar Defense & Investigation1$420,000+328.1%
Foreign Attorney, International Arbitration1$175,000+11.6%
Law Clerk1$225,000+82.8%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY6$420,000
Chicago, IL1$310,000
Palo Alto, CA1$225,000
San Francisco, CA1$225,000

By visa type: 9 H-1B. By outcome: 6 certified, 2 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Oct to Dec 20251
Apr to Jun 20268

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, entry50%
Level II, qualified13%
Level III, experienced0%
Level IV, fully competent38%

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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