Grant Thornton LLP H-1B wage filings

Chicago, IL. Last filed in fiscal 2025. Figures cover every filing since fiscal 2020; none in the latest 12 months reach five.

Grant Thornton LLP filed 432 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2025, covering 420 positions. The median wage it offered was $104,000, 14.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Audit Senior Associate (82 filings, median $87,205).

Filings since FY2020
432
Positions covered
420
Certified
97.0%
Job titles
190
Worksite cities
43
Last filed
FY2025

Offered wage since 2020

Grant Thornton LLP's median H-1B wage offer rose 36%, from $90,000 in fiscal 2020 to $122,750 in fiscal 2025. In fiscal 2025 it was 19.5% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 94 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$40k$80k$120k$160k$200k$90k$100k$100k$112k$108k$123k562020932021942022892023902024102025

Fiscal years run October to September.

Grant Thornton LLP by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
202510$122,750+13.7%$97,240+19.5%
202490$108,000−3.3%$90,979+17.1%
202389$111,669+11.4%$88,863+22.6%
202294$100,274+0.3%$85,155+17.3%
202193$100,000+11.1%$91,845+8.6%
202056$90,000n/a$84,656+10.4%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailingMedian since 2020
Audit Senior Associate82$87,205+14.2%+30% since 2020
Audit Manager26$115,000+9.6%+26% since 2021
Audit Associate10$73,000+18.0%
Senior Audit Associate8$86,471+6.3%
Tax Senior Associate8$91,150+26.8%
Cyber Risk Manager7$145,000+13.4%
Audit Experienced Manager6$130,000+15.0%
Audit Senior Manager6$162,500+41.1%
Experienced Manager - Cyber Risk6$175,100+12.2%
Senior Associate, Strategy & Transactions6$135,000+40.7%
Corporate Value Consulting Senior Associate5$83,000+12.6%
Strategic Assurance & SOC Services Senior Associate5$118,715+2.1%
Tax Associate5$79,768+14.6%
Audit Associate II4$75,550+7.1%
Senior Associate - Accounting Advisory Services4$90,000+33.8%
Senior Associate, Tax4$88,750+27.3%
Advisory IT Risk Manager3$147,400+21.3%
Audit Experienced Associate3$67,101at the minimum
Audit Partner3$352,726+29.5%
Complex Financial Instruments Associate3$95,763+12.2%
Cybersecurity and Privacy Associate3$106,710at the minimum
Data Analytics, Senior Associate3$90,000+26.6%
Diligence Senior Associate3$100,000+14.1%
Indirect Tax Sales & Use Automation (SALT) Director3$185,700+6.0%
Manager - Controls Advisory3$130,000+13.4%
Manager - Diligence3$170,000+24.0%
Partnership Taxation Experienced Manager3$165,000+25.8%
Risk Senior Associate3$95,500+1.2%
Senior Associate, Audit3$82,000+8.7%
Senior Associate - Tax Reporting and Advisory3$90,000+21.9%
State and Local Tax Senior Associate3$85,000+3.6%
Tax Reporting & Advisory Senior Associate3$97,500+14.5%
Technology Solutions Manager3$137,400+13.2%
Advisory - Process Risk Senior Associate2$99,614+12.7%
Controls Advisory - Manager2$118,900at the minimum
Cyber Security Identity & Access Management Manager2$155,000+15.7%
Cyber Security - Senior Associate2$127,000+24.0%
Diligence Associate2$80,500+10.2%
Director - Attest Services - IT2$169,700+33.9%
Director - Controls Advisory - IT2$167,300+16.2%

Showing the 40 most-filed of 190 job titles.

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY83$108,000
San Francisco, CA56$118,900
Chicago, IL31$105,000
Atlanta, GA26$102,800
Los Angeles, CA24$98,900
Dallas, TX21$110,000
San Jose, CA21$105,000
Houston, TX18$81,150
Philadelphia, PA17$98,000
Arlington, VA16$110,000
Bellevue, WA15$140,000
Boston, MA12$90,000

Showing the 12 busiest of 43 worksite cities.

By visa type: 414 H-1B, 14 E-3 (Australia), 4 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 328 certified, 91 certified and later withdrawn, 7 withdrawn before a decision, 6 denied.

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry4%
Level II, qualified55%
Level III, experienced16%
Level IV, fully competent25%

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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