Center for National Independence in Politics H-1B wage filings

Des Moines, IA. Last filed in fiscal 2025. Figures cover every filing since fiscal 2020; none in the latest 12 months reach five.

Center for National Independence in Politics filed 8 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2025. The median wage it offered was $36,254, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Research Associate (4 filings, median $34,299).

Filings since FY2020: 8
Positions covered: 7
Certified: 87.5%
Job titles: 5
Worksite cities: 1
Last filed: FY2025

Offered wage since 2020

Center for National Independence in Politics made 8 filings across 4 fiscal years since 2020, too few in most years to track the wage year by year. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 2 filings.

Fiscal years run October to September.

Center for National Independence in Politics by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2025	2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2024	2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2023	2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2022	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2021	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2020	2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Research Associate	4	$34,299	at the minimum
Director of Elections Research	1	n/a
Director of Officials Research	1	$39,021	at the minimum
National Director	1	$55,000	+14.6%
Research Director	1	$30,992	+9.8%

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
Des Moines, IA	8	$36,254

By visa type: 8 H-1B. By outcome: 4 certified, 3 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry100%

Level II, qualified0%

Level III, experienced0%

Level IV, fully competent0%

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 Center for National Independence in Politics 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 One filing can cover several positions, and some are later withdrawn.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.
1 filing is for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year) so they can be compared.

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