Citadel Americas LLC H-1B wage filings

Chicago, IL. Last filed in fiscal 2024. Figures cover every filing since fiscal 2020; none in the latest 12 months reach five.

Citadel Americas LLC filed 287 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2024. The median wage it offered was $175,000, 57.1% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Quantitative Researcher (50 filings, median $175,000).

Filings since FY2020
287
Positions covered
286
Certified
99.7%
Job titles
68
Worksite cities
18
Last filed
FY2024

Offered wage since 2020

Citadel Americas LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 21%, from $165,000 in fiscal 2020 to $200,000 in fiscal 2022. In fiscal 2022 it was 80.7% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 145 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$80k$120k$160k$200k$240k$165k$175k$200k$160k145202012420211320222202332024

Fiscal years run October to September.

Citadel Americas LLC by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
20243$160,000n/a$137,488+14.6%
20232n/an/an/an/a
202213$200,000+14.3%$99,778+80.7%
2021124$175,000+6.1%$102,024+67.1%
2020145$165,000n/a$111,405+50.4%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailingMedian since 2020
Quantitative Researcher50$175,000+70.8%+11% since 2020
Software Engineer28$165,000+38.9%+11% since 2020
Associate24$150,000+46.6%0% since 2020
Quantitative Research Analyst22$150,000+50.1%
Analyst21$200,000+65.0%0% since 2020
Quantitative Developer18$175,000+67.2%+5% since 2020
Trader10$150,000+39.9%
Quantitative Research Engineer9$165,000+55.7%
Data Engineer8$160,000+20.9%
Senior Associate5$175,000+32.7%
Associate Portfolio Manager4$242,500+140.2%
Managing Director4$300,000+58.6%
Sector Data Analyst4$175,000+99.4%
Data Production Analyst3$145,000+65.5%
Developer3$170,000+23.7%
Investment Associate3$170,000+15.2%
Senior Quantitative Developer3$210,000+52.7%
Senior Software Engineer3$237,500+136.3%
Business Response Engineer2$130,000+45.1%
Data Analyst2$129,000+31.9%
Data Scientist2$245,000+84.5%
Desk Strategist2$175,000+97.9%
Execution Trader2$157,500+75.3%
Healthcare Data Scientist/Engineer2$155,000+56.9%
Investment Analyst2$200,000+34.7%
Portfolio Manager2$300,000+85.9%
Research Engineer2$167,500+89.8%
SDA Associate2$175,000+85.3%
Senior Data Engineer2$190,000+62.3%
AI Researcher1$165,000+34.3%
Algo Execution Quant1$200,000+45.5%
Analyst - Healthcare1$200,000+171.4%
Application Software Engineer1$168,000+67.1%
Business Analyst1$107,000+22.1%
Business Manager, Core Engineering1$225,000+22.3%
Business Response Support Engineer1$150,000+23.6%
CLO Structurer1$150,000+70.9%
Commodities Engineer1$150,000+37.7%
Commodities Research Associate1$185,000+64.5%
Commodities Risk Analyst1$140,000+2.6%

Showing the 40 most-filed of 68 job titles.

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY162$175,000
Chicago, IL83$165,000
Greenwich, CT19$175,000
San Francisco, CA7$160,000
Houston, TX2$142,500
Seattle, WA2$167,500
Atlanta, NY1$200,000
Berkeley, CA1$155,000
Boston, MA1$150,000
Brooklyn, NY1$107,000
Clyde Hill, WA1$165,000
Dallas, TX1$175,000

Showing the 12 busiest of 18 worksite cities.

By visa type: 270 H-1B, 16 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 278 certified, 8 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry1%
Level II, qualified49%
Level III, experienced11%
Level IV, fully competent39%

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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