IBM Corporation H-1B wage filings
Durham, NC. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
IBM Corporation filed 1,670 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $129,979, 1.1% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Application Developer (323 filings, median $102,125).
- Filings
- 1,670
- Positions covered
- 1,663
- Certified
- 99.6%
- Job titles
- 470
- Worksite cities
- 220
- Filings since FY2020
- 14,920
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +52%
Offered wage since 2020
IBM Corporation's median H-1B wage offer rose 52%, from $85,363 in fiscal 2020 to $129,979 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 0.6% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2024, with 3,130 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.
IBM Corporation by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 1,236 | $129,979 | +10.1% | $117,915 | +0.6% |
| 2025 | 2,868 | $118,102 | +6.2% | $109,886 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 3,130 | $111,181 | +6.1% | $104,333 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 2,054 | $104,832 | +9.8% | $99,466 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 1,798 | $95,482 | +9.0% | $93,777 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 1,155 | $87,589 | +2.6% | $85,218 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 2,679 | $85,363 | n/a | $81,494 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Developer | 323 | $102,125 | at the minimum | +27% since 2020 | |
| Package Consultant | 87 | $125,403 | at the minimum | +28% since 2020 | |
| Application Architect | 84 | $140,933 | +2.1% | +56% since 2020 | |
| Software Developer | 68 | $187,922 | +9.8% | +52% since 2020 | |
| Test Specialist | 46 | $82,826 | at the minimum | +10% since 2020 | |
| Data Engineer | 38 | $122,637 | at the minimum | +47% since 2020 | |
| Package Specialist | 36 | $109,408 | at the minimum | +52% since 2020 | |
| Project Manager | 36 | $118,851 | at the minimum | +27% since 2020 | |
| Software Engineer | 24 | $102,690 | at the minimum | +18% since 2020 | |
| Product Manager | 20 | $160,914 | +17.4% | −5% since 2024 | |
| Technical Lead | 20 | $113,485 | at the minimum | +44% since 2020 | |
| Business Analyst | 17 | $106,662 | at the minimum | +35% since 2020 | |
| Application Consultant | 16 | $126,475 | at the minimum | +35% since 2020 | |
| Research Scientist | 15 | $203,910 | +35.9% | +3% since 2023 | |
| Senior Application Developer | 15 | $115,128 | at the minimum | +37% since 2020 | |
| Senior Managing Consultant | 15 | $198,692 | +49.9% | +20% since 2020 | |
| IT Specialist | 14 | $118,373 | at the minimum | +52% since 2020 | |
| Data Scientist | 13 | $163,683 | +26.2% | +43% since 2020 | |
| Technical Team Lead | 13 | $98,571 | at the minimum | +21% since 2020 | |
| Managing Consultant | 12 | $160,770 | +5.7% | +12% since 2020 | |
| Technical Consultant | 12 | $115,730 | at the minimum | +58% since 2020 | |
| Back-End Developer | 11 | $172,855 | +20.5% | +54% since 2022 | |
| Senior Software Engineer | 11 | $248,400 | +36.0% | +185% since 2020 | |
| Solution Architect | 11 | $216,342 | +56.2% | +104% since 2020 | |
| Business Transformation Consultant | 10 | $114,114 | +16.1% | +45% since 2020 | |
| Hardware Developer | 9 | $159,741 | +17.4% | +49% since 2022 | |
| Program Manager | 9 | $126,339 | +1.1% | +6% since 2022 | |
| Quality Engineer | 9 | $104,458 | at the minimum | +9% since 2024 | |
| Staff Research Scientist | 9 | $249,922 | +68.2% | +8% since 2023 | |
| Senior Consultant | 8 | $134,379 | +8.7% | +42% since 2020 | |
| Senior System Engineer | 8 | $102,877 | at the minimum | +26% since 2020 | |
| Test Architect | 8 | $89,946 | +1.2% | −5% since 2022 | |
| Application Database Administrator | 7 | $101,670 | at the minimum | +25% since 2020 | |
| Delivery Project Executive | 7 | $142,200 | +15.8% | +20% since 2020 | |
| Package Solution Consultant | 7 | $107,931 | at the minimum | +21% since 2020 | |
| Senior Data Scientist | 7 | $176,925 | +17.7% | +6% since 2024 | |
| Senior Software Developer | 7 | $224,824 | +15.1% | +27% since 2024 | |
| Technical Team Leader | 7 | $104,416 | at the minimum | +34% since 2020 | |
| Test Lead | 7 | $102,669 | at the minimum | +6% since 2022 | |
| Research Software Engineer | 6 | $230,614 | +35.4% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 470 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Dallas, TX | 135 | $120,141 |
| San Jose, CA | 83 | $216,320 |
| Durham, NC | 81 | $139,214 |
| Atlanta, GA | 77 | $104,416 |
| New York, NY | 63 | $187,388 |
| Austin, TX | 58 | $165,415 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 52 | $104,459 |
| Parsippany, NJ | 43 | $104,021 |
| Newark, NJ | 41 | $125,715 |
| Yorktown Heights, NY | 38 | $231,759 |
| West Sacramento, CA | 37 | $116,106 |
| Coppell, TX | 34 | $142,595 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 220 worksite cities.
By visa type: 1,664 H-1B, 4 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Chile), 1 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 1,122 certified, 541 certified and later withdrawn, 7 withdrawn before a decision.
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 IBM Corporation 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.