Critical Ideas, Inc H-1B wage filings

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

Critical Ideas, Inc filed 21 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2024. The median wage it offered was $145,000, 10.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Engineer, Machine Learning (5 filings, median $155,000).

Filings since FY2021
21
Positions covered
21
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
12
Worksite cities
11
Last filed
FY2024

Offered wage since 2021

Critical Ideas, Inc's median H-1B wage offer rose 8%, from $142,000 in fiscal 2022 to $153,000 in fiscal 2023. In fiscal 2023 it was 5.1% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 11 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$100k$120k$140k$160k$180k$135k$142k$153k420211120225202312024

Fiscal years run October to September.

Critical Ideas, Inc by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
20241n/an/an/an/a
20235$153,000+7.7%$147,410+5.1%
202211$142,000+5.2%$119,933+5.5%
20214$135,000n/a$120,297+17.3%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Software Engineer, Machine Learning5$155,000+10.4%
Software Engineer4$148,625+3.0%
Data Analyst (Business Intelligence Analyst)2$117,875+14.9%
Senior Product Analyst2$142,000+19.4%
Engineering Manager - Risk Analytics1$195,000+13.2%
Growth Marketing Analyst1$80,000+5.5%
IT Jira Engineer & Administrator1$195,000+52.0%
Lead Product Manager1$205,000+40.3%
Product Manager1$115,000+20.5%
Project Manager - Marketing Ops1$80,000+32.7%
Senior Analytics Engineer1$145,000+1.8%
Senior Economist, Pricing1$170,900+5.1%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY5$142,000
San Francisco, CA4$112,500
Cambridge, MA2$139,000
Los Angeles, CA2$137,500
Vancouver, WA2$117,875
Bloomfield, NJ1$195,000
Frisco, TX1$195,000
Glendale, CA1$155,000
Mountain View, CA1$162,750
South San Francisco, CA1$162,750
Sunnyvale, CA1$145,000

By visa type: 21 H-1B. By outcome: 20 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn.

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry10%
Level II, qualified19%
Level III, experienced29%
Level IV, fully competent43%

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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