Chicago Mercantile Exchange H-1B wage filings
Chicago, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Also filed as Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc..
Chicago Mercantile Exchange filed 66 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $130,163, 1.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior Software Engineer (6 filings, median $132,854).
- Filings
- 66
- Positions covered
- 65
- Certified
- 98.5%
- Job titles
- 43
- Worksite cities
- 3
- Filings since FY2020
- 470
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +24%
Offered wage since 2020
Chicago Mercantile Exchange's median H-1B wage offer rose 24%, from $104,624 in fiscal 2020 to $130,163 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 0.2% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 80 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.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 62 | $130,163 | +1.7% | $122,824 | +0.2% |
| 2025 | 65 | $128,000 | no change | $116,210 | +3.4% |
| 2024 | 64 | $128,000 | +6.7% | $114,629 | +8.1% |
| 2023 | 70 | $120,000 | +6.7% | $114,067 | +6.1% |
| 2022 | 80 | $112,500 | +18.4% | $105,810 | +8.1% |
| 2021 | 50 | $95,000 | −9.2% | $90,397 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 79 | $104,624 | n/a | $104,624 | at the minimum |
Offered wage by job title
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing | Median since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer | 6 | $132,854 | at the minimum | +17% since 2020 | |
| Senior QA Analyst | 5 | $124,123 | +5.5% | +15% since 2022 | |
| Staff Software Engineer | 5 | $131,000 | +0.2% | ||
| Mgr Quant Risk Mgmt | 2 | $194,200 | +46.5% | ||
| Quant Model Validation Associate | 2 | $115,000 | +13.6% | ||
| Quant Risk Mgmt Associate | 2 | $136,291 | +14.4% | ||
| Sr Quant Risk Mgmt Analyst | 2 | $110,770 | at the minimum | ||
| Sr Quant Risk Mgmt Associate | 2 | $165,759 | +2.4% | ||
| Site Reliability Engineer II | 2 | $96,539 | +5.3% | ||
| Software Engineer III | 2 | $131,500 | +11.1% | +1% since 2022 | |
| Staff QA Analyst | 2 | $126,195 | +0.1% | ||
| Staff Security Engineer | 2 | $161,234 | +0.8% | ||
| Staff Technology Solutions Analyst | 2 | $130,163 | +20.4% | ||
| Clearing & Post-Trade Product Mgmt Associate | 1 | $100,000 | +12.0% | ||
| Cyber Defense Analyst II | 1 | $98,176 | at the minimum | ||
| Dir BrokerTec Products | 1 | $170,000 | +17.8% | ||
| DIR Software Engineering | 1 | $200,000 | +30.4% | ||
| Ld Investigator | 1 | $85,538 | +3.3% | ||
| Mgr CD&S - Sell Side | 1 | $122,824 | at the minimum | ||
| Mgr Cloud Data Engineering Lead | 1 | $175,000 | +14.1% | ||
| Mgr Site Reliability Engineering Lead | 1 | $153,317 | at the minimum | ||
| Mgr Technology Solutions Analysis | 1 | $150,000 | +5.5% | ||
| Platform Engineer 1 | 1 | $85,467 | at the minimum | ||
| Platform Engineer II | 1 | $108,077 | at the minimum | ||
| Pricing & Valuation Associate | 1 | $96,096 | +23.3% | ||
| QA Analyst III | 1 | $110,000 | +5.0% | +27% since 2020 | |
| Risk Management Analyst | 1 | $96,366 | +49.2% | ||
| Risk Mgmt Associate | 1 | $126,963 | at the minimum | ||
| Security Engineer II - IAM | 1 | $82,846 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Database Administrator | 1 | $120,000 | +8.9% | ||
| Sr Dir Site Reliability Engineer | 1 | $184,000 | +20.0% | ||
| Sr Financial Systems - SWIFT Associate | 1 | $93,933 | at the minimum | ||
| Sr Quant Model Validation Associate | 1 | $152,339 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | 1 | $130,707 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Software Engineer in Test | 1 | $122,000 | +0.5% | ||
| Sr Staff Engineer - Identity Governance and Administration | 1 | $200,000 | +51.0% | ||
| Senior Staff Platform Engineer | 1 | $180,000 | +37.7% | ||
| Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer | 1 | $153,317 | at the minimum | ||
| Sr Tech Risk Mgmt Analyst | 1 | $125,000 | +3.5% | ||
| Site Reliability Engineer III | 1 | $103,334 | at the minimum | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 43 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago, IL | 58 | $130,082 |
| New York, NY | 7 | $157,581 |
| Secaucus, NJ | 1 | n/a |
By visa type: 66 H-1B. By outcome: 65 certified, 1 withdrawn before a decision.
Filings by quarter
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
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 Chicago Mercantile Exchange 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.