CDM Smith Inc. H-1B wage filings

Boston, MA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

CDM Smith Inc. filed 40 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $102,003, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Environmental Engineer 3 (6 filings, median $92,644).

Filings: 40
Positions covered: 37
Certified: 92.5%
Job titles: 18
Worksite cities: 23
Filings since FY2020: 199
Median offer change since FY2020: +35%

Offered wage since 2020

CDM Smith Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 35%, from $75,483 in fiscal 2020 to $102,003 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 0.1% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 41 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

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

CDM Smith Inc. by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	38	$102,003	+2.0%	$94,349	+0.1%
2025	41	$100,027	−5.0%	$98,675	at the minimum
2024	24	$105,331	+12.8%	$93,059	+5.6%
2023	27	$93,340	−7.2%	$89,680	+6.4%
2022	22	$100,589	+13.9%	$83,616	+5.2%
2021	25	$88,317	+17.0%	$85,426	+4.7%
2020	22	$75,483	n/a	$68,162	+5.4%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Environmental Engineer 3	6	$92,644	+6.5%
Environmental Engineer 5	5	$120,879	+4.9%
Transportation Engineer 2	4	$80,896	at the minimum
Transportation Planner II	4	$89,940	at the minimum
Environmental Engineer 4	3	$116,834	at the minimum
Transportation Engineer 4	3	$118,789	at the minimum
Construction Specialist 3	2	$110,448	+0.1%
Electrical Engineer 5	2	$145,018	+1.1%
Transportation Planner 3	2	$102,003	+17.2%
Automation Engineer 6	1	$138,715	at the minimum
Construction Specialist 2	1	$88,400	+7.5%
Construction Specialist 4	1	$130,000	+6.4%
Environmental Engineer 8	1	$205,400	+45.5%
Information Management Specialist 1	1	$90,501	at the minimum
Lead ERP Applications Developer	1	$174,907	+19.1%
Transportation Engineer 3	1	$89,981	+4.6%
Transportation Planner 7	1	$162,094	at the minimum
Transportation Planner V	1	$123,302	+4.6%

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
Dallas, TX	5	$121,950
Austin, TX	4	$102,003
Fairfax, VA	4	$102,617
El Paso, TX	3	$100,194
Atlanta, GA	2	$85,676
Boston, MA	2	$132,704
Houston, TX	2	$130,395
Phoenix, AZ	2	$145,018
Woodbury, MN	2	$108,498
Albuquerque, NM	1	$102,814
Bellevue, WA	1	$205,400
Charlotte, NC	1	$118,789

Showing the 12 busiest of 23 worksite cities.

By visa type: 39 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 37 certified, 3 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20252

Oct to Dec 20254

Jan to Mar 20263

Apr to Jun 202631

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, entry3%

Level II, qualified50%

Level III, experienced3%

Level IV, fully competent44%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

They are wages CDM Smith Inc. attested to on Labor Condition Applications (Form ETA-9035), not paychecks. Bonuses and stock are not included.
A filing is not a visa or a hire. One filing can cover several positions, and some are later withdrawn. Wage figures use certified filings only.
The prevailing wage is the minimum the employer must pay for that job in that area, set from government wage surveys.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.