Cornerstone Research, Inc. H-1B wage filings

Boston, MA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Cornerstone Research, Inc. filed 60 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 74 positions. The median wage it offered was $235,000, 75.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Associate (32 filings, median $240,000).

Filings: 60
Positions covered: 74
Certified: 98.3%
Job titles: 8
Worksite cities: 7
Filings since FY2020: 290
Median offer change since FY2020: +96%

Offered wage since 2020

Cornerstone Research, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 96%, from $120,000 in fiscal 2020 to $235,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 75.9% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 51 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.

Cornerstone Research, Inc. by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	45	$235,000	+20.5%	$115,347	+75.9%
2025	51	$195,000	−5.9%	$112,590	+80.8%
2024	42	$207,250	+3.6%	$103,542	+85.4%
2023	40	$200,000	+45.5%	$129,636	+36.5%
2022	34	$137,500	+19.6%	$115,108	+16.0%
2021	28	$115,000	−4.2%	$108,940	+12.2%
2020	50	$120,000	n/a	$107,880	+17.3%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing	Median since 2020
Associate	32	$240,000	+99.9%	+37% since 2020
Research Associate	14	$160,000	+41.4%	+33% since 2020
Analyst	7	$105,000	+40.5%	+31% since 2020
Senior Analyst	2	$140,995	+2.9%
Senior Developer	2	$174,075	+7.3%
Associate Financial Economist	1	$280,800	+149.4%
Data Scientist II	1	$195,000	+78.1%
Senior Economist	1	$240,000	+104.2%

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
New York, NY	15	$240,000
Boston, MA	10	$197,500
Los Angeles, CA	9	$195,000
Chicago, IL	8	$232,500
Washington, DC	7	$240,000
Menlo Park, CA	6	$183,750
San Francisco, CA	5	$165,000

By visa type: 60 H-1B. By outcome: 59 certified, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 202515

Apr to Jun 202645

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, entry12%

Level II, qualified81%

Level III, experienced5%

Level IV, fully competent2%

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 Cornerstone Research, Inc. 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.
1 filing is for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year) so they can be compared.

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