Calcasieu Parish School Board H-1B wage filings

Lake Charles, LA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Calcasieu Parish School Board filed 11 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $55,661, 4.6% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
11
Positions covered
10
Certified
90.9%
Job titles
9
Worksite cities
3
Filings since FY2020
53
Median offer change since FY2020
−5%

Offered wage since 2020

Calcasieu Parish School Board's median H-1B wage offer fell 5%, from $58,719 in fiscal 2020 to $55,661 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 4.6% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2021, with 10 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$40k$60k$59k$54k$52k$53k$51k$51k$56k5202010202152022920239202442025112026*

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

Calcasieu Parish School Board by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)11$55,661+10.1%$53,060+4.6%
20254$50,561no change$50,013+2.4%
20249$50,561−4.9%$49,710+2.6%
20239$53,161+2.0%$48,610+6.8%
20225$52,111−4.1%$50,975+3.6%
202110$54,361−7.4%$51,995+5.2%
20205$58,719n/a$54,570+7.6%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
First Grade Teacher – Two-Way Immersion Program2$55,761+4.6%
Spanish Teacher2$54,061+3.8%
Elementary School Spanish Teacher1$53,320at the minimum
French Teacher1$55,761+5.1%
High School Spanish Teacher1$49,561+6.5%
Middle School Spanish Teacher1$55,361+4.4%
Secondary Gifted Science Teacher1$55,561+4.7%
Spanish as a Second Language Teacher1$55,761+5.1%
Special Education Teacher (Middle School)1$56,161+1.7%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Lake Charles, LA6$55,761
Sulphur, LA4$53,761
Moss Bluff, LA1$55,761

By visa type: 11 H-1B. By outcome: 10 certified, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Oct to Dec 20252
Jan to Mar 20268
Apr to Jun 20261

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, entry10%
Level II, qualified0%
Level III, experienced40%
Level IV, fully competent50%

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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