Asarco LLC H-1B wage filings

Sahuarita, AZ. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Asarco LLC filed 30 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $120,300, 13.3% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Control Room Supervisor (3 filings, median $117,000).

Filings
30
Positions covered
28
Certified
93.3%
Job titles
22
Worksite cities
5
Filings since FY2020
58
Median offer change since FY2023
+21%

Offered wage since 2020

Asarco LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 21%, from $97,000 in fiscal 2023 to $117,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 13.3% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 13 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$60k$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k$85k$84k$97k$93k$114k$117k4202032021220226202362024132025242026*

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

Asarco LLC by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)24$117,000+2.6%$106,974+13.3%
202513$114,030+22.8%$96,855+13.3%
20246$92,879−4.2%$83,096+4.6%
20236$97,000n/a$75,400+9.2%
20222n/an/an/an/a
20213$83,736−1.9%$76,190+9.9%
20204$85,384n/a$85,384at the minimum

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Control Room Supervisor3$117,000+32.3%
Economic Project Specialist2$126,600+3.4%
Engineer Metallurgical EDP2$95,306at the minimum
General Maintenance Supervisor - Truck Shop2$145,000+13.3%
General Maintenance Supervisor”Truck Shop2$145,000+11.0%
Reliability Engineer2$99,064+7.1%
Slope Stability Engineer2$82,007+13.4%
Business Technologies and Autonomy Lead1$135,000+22.9%
Chief Metallurgical Engineer1$139,408+24.6%
Command Supervisor1n/a
Corporate Manager, Mining and Technology1$201,000+14.1%
General Maintenance Supervisor1n/a
General Manager1$220,000+62.7%
Lead Data Scientist1$127,200+9.9%
Maintenance Supervisor (Concentrator)1$115,000+7.5%
Mechanical Engineer 31$107,076+4.8%
Operations Readiness Specialist - Autonomy1$156,000+24.0%
Senior Control Systems Engineer1$94,659+17.4%
Sr. Lab Supervisor1$105,000+8.3%
Sr. Mining Technology Engineering Technician1$96,680+10.8%
Superintendent - Mobile Maintenance (Mining, AHS Hauling)1$145,000+13.3%
Technical Services Manager1$185,000+24.4%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Kearny, AZ17$117,000
Mesa, AZ6$123,600
Sahuarita, AZ5$104,602
Hayden, AZ1$139,408
Marana, AZ1$220,000

By visa type: 18 H-1B, 10 E-3 (Australia), 2 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 22 certified, 6 certified and later withdrawn, 2 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20256
Oct to Dec 20254
Jan to Mar 20263
Apr to Jun 202617

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, entry39%
Level II, qualified21%
Level III, experienced18%
Level IV, fully competent21%

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.