BMO Capital Markets Corp. H-1B wage filings

Chicago, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. filed 12 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $189,592, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was CM VP-IC Investment Banking I (3 filings, median $260,000).

Filings
12
Positions covered
12
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
10
Worksite cities
1
Filings since FY2020
62
Median offer change since FY2020
+65%

Offered wage since 2020

BMO Capital Markets Corp.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 65%, from $115,138 in fiscal 2020 to $189,592 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 14 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$80k$120k$160k$200k$240k$115k$185k$130k$143k$146k$143k$190k1420208202192022420239202482025102026*

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

BMO Capital Markets Corp. by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)10$189,592+32.8%$174,315at the minimum
20258$142,730−2.3%$142,730at the minimum
20249$146,141+2.4%$146,141at the minimum
20234$142,740+9.8%$142,740at the minimum
20229$130,021−29.6%$130,021at the minimum
20218$184,663+60.4%$184,663at the minimum
202014$115,138n/a$115,138at the minimum

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
CM VP-IC Investment Banking I3$260,000+45.2%
Associate, Investment Banking1$118,248at the minimum
CM Associate-IC Global Markets1$200,000+77.3%
CM Director-IC Global Markets1$169,541at the minimum
CM Managing Director-PM Global Markets1$169,541at the minimum
CM VP-IC Global Markets1$191,922at the minimum
Director-PM Development1$189,592at the minimum
Senior Manager-PM Full Stack Development1$189,592at the minimum
Specialist III-IC Development1$160,805at the minimum
Vice President - Corporate Banking FIG Insurance1$179,088at the minimum

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY12$189,592

By visa type: 12 H-1B. By outcome: 12 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20252
Oct to Dec 20252
Jan to Mar 20263
Apr to Jun 20265

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, qualified17%
Level III, experienced8%
Level IV, fully competent75%

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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