The Hanover Research Council LLC H-1B wage filings

Arlington, VA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

The Hanover Research Council LLC filed 9 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $74,000, 13.5% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
9
Positions covered
9
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
8
Worksite cities
6
Filings since FY2020
56
Median offer change since FY2020
+6%

Offered wage since 2020

The Hanover Research Council LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 6%, from $70,000 in fiscal 2020 to $74,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 9.2% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 13 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$40k$60k$80k$100k$120k$70k$83k$91k$83k$60k$67k$74k1320205202172022122023320249202572026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

The Hanover Research Council LLC by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)7$74,000+11.3%$64,397+9.2%
20259$66,500+10.8%$61,589+13.5%
20243$60,000−27.9%$59,946+9.9%
202312$83,250−8.2%$67,413+19.1%
20227$90,709+10.0%$87,568+10.8%
20215$82,500+17.9%$67,246+4.1%
202013$70,000n/a$66,040+13.6%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Research Associate2$66,307+21.9%
Content Director1$93,500+8.2%
Research Associate- Higher Education1$70,304+9.2%
Research Director1$110,000+13.5%
Senior Content Analyst1$95,000+29.6%
Senior Research Associate- Higher Education1$70,304+9.2%
Survey Consultant1$86,403at the minimum
Survey Research Associate1$74,000+15.3%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Arlington, VA2$101,750
Denver, CO2$74,000
San Francisco, CA2$70,304
Alexandria, VA1$86,403
Boca Raton, FL1$95,000
Chicago, IL1$58,614

By visa type: 8 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 8 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20252
Apr to Jun 20267

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, entry33%
Level II, qualified44%
Level III, experienced22%
Level IV, fully competent0%

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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