Chicago Transit Authority H-1B wage filings
Chicago, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Chicago Transit Authority filed 5 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $135,000, 6.1% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.
- Filings
- 5
- Positions covered
- 5
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 4
- Worksite cities
- 1
- Filings since FY2020
- 16
Offered wage since 2020
Chicago Transit Authority made 16 filings across 6 fiscal years since 2020, too few in most years to track the wage year by year. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 4 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 Transit Authority by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 3 | $120,182 | −17.1% | $120,182 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 3 | $145,000 | n/a | $136,677 | +6.1% |
| 2024 | 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2023 | 3 | $80,000 | n/a | $79,144 | +3.1% |
| 2022 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2021 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2020 | 4 | $92,712 | n/a | $79,435 | +12.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Attorney | 2 | $145,000 | +6.1% | |
| Sr. Manager, Networks | 1 | $120,182 | at the minimum | |
| Senior Manager, Service Planning | 1 | $135,000 | +8.8% | |
| Senior Network Engineer | 1 | $120,182 | at the minimum | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago, IL | 5 | $135,000 |
By visa type: 3 H-1B, 2 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 5 certified.
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 Transit Authority 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.