HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. H-1B wage filings

Chicago, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. filed 15 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $190,000, 15.4% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
15
Positions covered
15
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
14
Worksite cities
1
Filings since FY2020
97
Median offer change since FY2020
+11%

Offered wage since 2020

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 11%, from $174,425 in fiscal 2020 to $193,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 18.1% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2021, with 20 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$80k$120k$160k$200k$240k$280k$174k$175k$170k$175k$215k$225k$193k142020202021132022132023122024132025122026*

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

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)12$193,000−14.2%$164,174+18.1%
202513$225,000+4.7%$135,262+55.7%
202412$215,000+22.9%$141,523+42.4%
202313$175,000+2.9%$145,392+20.4%
202213$170,000−2.9%$145,392+15.4%
202120$175,000+0.3%$146,734+19.7%
202014$174,425n/a$140,671+22.1%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Senior Associate2$150,000+21.1%
Associate 21$133,184+12.6%
Cash Equities Business Manager, MSS US1$175,000+11.7%
Director1$300,000+56.3%
Futures Execution Sales, Associate1$148,678at the minimum
Head of Portfolio Optimisation Team, US1$300,000+0.4%
Senior Manager, Client Intelligence1$186,000+9.7%
Senior Research Analyst,SVP,Latin American Financials and EM1$250,000+30.3%
Vice President, Capital Goods Coverage1$190,000+7.6%
Vice President, Client Relationship Management1$170,000+14.3%
Vice President, Credit Trading1$200,000+21.8%
Vice President,HSBC Infrastructure Finance (HIF)1$230,000+28.4%
Vice President, Rates Algo Trading1$213,000+29.7%
VP, TMT Investment Banking1$250,000+74.7%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY15$190,000

By visa type: 13 H-1B, 2 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 10 certified, 5 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20253
Oct to Dec 20252
Jan to Mar 20263
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, entry0%
Level II, qualified13%
Level III, experienced27%
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.

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