Clifford Chance US LLP H-1B wage filings

New York, NY. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Clifford Chance US LLP filed 31 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $220,000, 29.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Associate (17 filings, median $250,000).

Filings
31
Positions covered
31
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
6
Worksite cities
3
Filings since FY2020
115
Median offer change since FY2020
+156%

Offered wage since 2020

Clifford Chance US LLP's median H-1B wage offer rose 156%, from $85,000 in fiscal 2020 to $218,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 37.0% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 19 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$0k$100k$200k$300k$85k$205k$200k$160k$225k$225k$218k152020102021192022132023132024172025282026*

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

Clifford Chance US LLP by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)28$218,000−3.1%$156,832+37.0%
202517$225,000no change$212,826+5.7%
202413$225,000+40.6%$143,998+56.3%
202313$160,000−20.0%$84,427+89.5%
202219$200,000−2.4%$106,246+66.0%
202110$205,000+141.2%$136,978+35.5%
202015$85,000n/a$61,776+52.6%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailingMedian since 2020
Associate17$250,000+27.6%+9% since 2022
Law Clerk10$215,000+98.1%+187% since 2020
Associate Attorney1$225,000+4.4%
Business Development Manager “ Americas1$180,000+14.7%
Foreign Law Clerk1$210,000+135.8%
Head of Lateral and Experienced Talent Acquisition Americas1$275,000+144.7%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY26$225,000
Houston, TX3$215,000
Washington, DC2$177,500

By visa type: 24 H-1B, 4 E-3 (Australia), 2 H-1B1 (Singapore), 1 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 31 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20253
Oct to Dec 20253
Jan to Mar 20262
Apr to Jun 202623

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, entry6%
Level II, qualified26%
Level III, experienced29%
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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