Happy Returns LLC H-1B wage filings

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Happy Returns LLC filed 5 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $203,300, 7.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
5
Positions covered
5
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
3
Worksite cities
4
Filings since FY2020
49
Median offer change since FY2024
+13%

Offered wage since 2020

Happy Returns LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 13%, from $180,600 in fiscal 2024 to $203,300 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 7.2% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2024, with 33 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$120k$140k$160k$180k$200k$220k$181k$181k$203k220200202102022020233320249202552026*

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

Happy Returns LLC by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)5$203,300+12.5%$189,592+7.2%
20259$180,648no change$149,760+23.6%
202433$180,600n/a$139,464+25.9%
20230n/an/an/an/a
20220n/an/an/an/a
20210n/an/an/an/a
20202n/an/an/an/a

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
MTS 2, Software Engineer2$203,300+7.2%
Staff Software Engineer2$200,422+22.5%
Software Engineer1$130,000+10.4%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Bothell, WA2$172,045
Boonton, NJ1$203,300
Booton, NJ1$203,300
Los Angeles, CA1$186,753

By visa type: 5 H-1B. By outcome: 5 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jan to Mar 20263
Apr to Jun 20262

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, entry20%
Level II, qualified20%
Level III, experienced0%
Level IV, fully competent60%

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.