Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp H-1B wage filings

College Station, TX. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp filed 8,285 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $112,362, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Manager (4,242 filings, median $113,797).

Filings: 8,285
Positions covered: 8,265
Certified: 99.8%
Job titles: 8
Worksite cities: 932
Filings since FY2020: 96,718
Median offer change since FY2020: +28%

Offered wage since 2020

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp's median H-1B wage offer rose 28%, from $86,788 in fiscal 2020 to $111,030 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 28,698 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.

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	5,779	$111,030	+1.1%	$110,198	at the minimum
2025	11,139	$109,782	+9.5%	$106,995	at the minimum
2024	11,437	$100,298	−1.0%	$98,259	at the minimum
2023	13,077	$101,358	+6.9%	$98,416	at the minimum
2022	13,907	$94,786	+3.7%	$94,349	at the minimum
2021	12,681	$91,374	+5.3%	$91,062	at the minimum
2020	28,698	$86,788	n/a	$86,778	at the minimum

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing	Median since 2020
Manager	4,242	$113,797	at the minimum	+19% since 2020
Senior Associate	2,219	$90,002	at the minimum	+16% since 2020
Senior Manager	1,577	$140,795	at the minimum	+26% since 2020
Associate Director	219	$144,310	at the minimum	+29% since 2020
Director	10	$167,155	+19.8%	+26% since 2020
Associate 2	9	$108,701	+16.0%	+34% since 2020
AVP	5	$158,974	at the minimum
Senior Systems Analyst	4	$85,977	at the minimum	+10% since 2020

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
Plano, TX	421	$118,456
Charlotte, NC	293	$113,797
Hartford, CT	234	$104,062
Irving, TX	200	$118,456
Atlanta, GA	136	$108,514
Austin, TX	123	$119,933
Alpharetta, GA	121	$108,514
Jersey City, NJ	107	$126,818
Chicago, IL	101	$107,640
Frisco, TX	99	$118,456
Edison, NJ	98	$126,818
New York, NY	90	$126,818

Showing the 12 busiest of 932 worksite cities.

By visa type: 8,277 H-1B, 8 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 8,264 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn, 20 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20252,506

Oct to Dec 20251,424

Jan to Mar 20261,998

Apr to Jun 20262,357

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, entry0%

Level II, qualified27%

Level III, experienced51%

Level IV, fully competent22%

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 Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp 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.
On its filings, Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp declared itself an H-1B-dependent employer: one where H-1B workers make up a large share of staff, which adds hiring obligations.

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