Baker & McKenzie LLP H-1B wage filings

Chicago, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Also filed as Baker & McKenzie LLLP.

Baker & McKenzie LLP filed 15 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $365,000, 62.3% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Law Clerk (4 filings, median $268,570).

Filings
15
Positions covered
13
Certified
86.7%
Job titles
7
Worksite cities
6
Filings since FY2020
92
Median offer change since FY2020
+66%

Offered wage since 2020

Baker & McKenzie LLP's median H-1B wage offer rose 66%, from $187,000 in fiscal 2020 to $310,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 62.3% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 22 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$100k$200k$300k$400k$500k$187k$190k$200k$337k$243k$225k$310k22202016202182022122023102024112025132026*

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

Baker & McKenzie LLP by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)13$310,000+37.8%$224,931+62.3%
202511$225,000−7.2%$178,360+40.8%
202410$242,500−28.1%$192,795+31.1%
202312$337,126+69.0%$227,032+46.1%
20228$199,508+5.0%$169,593+38.5%
202116$190,000+1.6%$172,609+16.8%
202022$187,000n/a$172,016+14.8%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Law Clerk4$268,570+21.9%
Partner4$680,000+148.0%
Associate2$312,500+54.3%
Senior Associate2$427,500+92.3%
Business Development Manager, Client Services1$168,480+68.2%
Senior Law Clerk1$420,000+53.1%
Senior Legal Project Manager1$151,090+33.8%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY7$495,000
Dallas, TX2$312,500
Los Angeles, CA2$201,740
San Francisco, CA2$310,000
Chicago, IL1$420,000
Houston, TX1$151,090

By visa type: 14 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 12 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn, 2 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20252
Oct to Dec 20255
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, entry0%
Level II, qualified23%
Level III, experienced31%
Level IV, fully competent46%

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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