Educational Testing Service H-1B wage filings
Princeton, NJ. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Educational Testing Service filed 61 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $138,570, 2.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Software Developer Lead (11 filings, median $153,005).
- Filings
- 61
- Positions covered
- 60
- Certified
- 98.4%
- Job titles
- 18
- Worksite cities
- 15
- Filings since FY2020
- 440
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +83%
Offered wage since 2020
Educational Testing Service's median H-1B wage offer rose 83%, from $83,533 in fiscal 2020 to $153,005 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 3.6% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2023, with 130 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.
Educational Testing Service by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 25 | $153,005 | +12.2% | $142,730 | +3.6% |
| 2025 | 85 | $136,323 | +5.7% | $126,131 | +7.0% |
| 2024 | 39 | $128,960 | +11.2% | $108,077 | +10.6% |
| 2023 | 130 | $116,000 | +5.5% | $100,610 | +15.0% |
| 2022 | 61 | $109,970 | +25.1% | $97,261 | +5.0% |
| 2021 | 44 | $87,901 | +5.2% | $87,069 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 56 | $83,533 | n/a | $80,725 | at the minimum |
Offered wage by job title
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing | Median since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developer Lead | 11 | $153,005 | +2.6% | +27% since 2022 | |
| Software Developer Senior | 9 | $129,584 | at the minimum | +11% since 2023 | |
| Systems Engineer Senior | 7 | $138,570 | at the minimum | ||
| Business Systems Analyst Lead | 6 | $152,131 | +12.2% | ||
| IT Data Engineer Senior | 6 | $153,837 | +19.1% | ||
| IT Automation Engineer | 4 | $128,450 | +13.2% | ||
| Associate Research Engineer | 3 | $95,000 | +1.9% | ||
| Assistant AI Engineer | 2 | $111,444 | at the minimum | ||
| Business Systems Analyst Senior | 2 | $110,240 | +8.0% | ||
| Director of AI Engineering | 2 | $205,000 | +13.4% | ||
| Software Developer, Research Lead | 2 | $155,000 | +2.5% | ||
| AI Engineer | 1 | $142,595 | +32.7% | ||
| Associate Psychometrician | 1 | $106,936 | +14.9% | ||
| IT Data Scientist | 1 | $131,622 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Research User Specialist | 1 | $120,973 | at the minimum | ||
| Software Developer (Full Stack) Senior | 1 | $130,603 | at the minimum | ||
| Software Developer “ Lead | 1 | $153,005 | at the minimum | ||
| Technical Project Consultant | 1 | $158,974 | +11.4% | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Princeton, NJ | 36 | $152,131 |
| Little Elm, TX | 4 | $139,329 |
| Rochester, NY | 3 | $95,000 |
| Fremont, CA | 2 | $111,444 |
| Frisco, TX | 2 | $129,022 |
| Houston, TX | 2 | $126,589 |
| Mckinney, TX | 2 | $127,878 |
| Mountain View, CA | 2 | $205,000 |
| New Castle, DE | 2 | $138,570 |
| Angier, NC | 1 | $136,926 |
| Ann Arbor, MI | 1 | $142,595 |
| Aubrey, TX | 1 | $126,000 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 15 worksite cities.
By visa type: 61 H-1B. By outcome: 60 certified, 1 denied.
Filings by quarter
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
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 Educational Testing Service 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.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.