JPMorgan Chase & Co. H-1B wage filings

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

JPMorgan Chase & Co. filed 3,439 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 8,085 positions. The median wage it offered was $160,805, 14.6% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Vice President, Lead Software Engineer (573 filings, median $162,700).

Filings
3,439
Positions covered
8,085
Certified
99.7%
Job titles
611
Worksite cities
47
Filings since FY2020
22,148
Median offer change since FY2020
+34%

Offered wage since 2020

JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 34%, from $120,000 in fiscal 2020 to $160,678 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 14.8% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 3,677 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$100k$120k$140k$160k$180k$200k$120k$126k$140k$146k$146k$155k$161k2,54320202,58020213,67720223,46320233,54420243,53220252,8092026*

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

JPMorgan Chase & Co. by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)2,809$160,678+3.5%$139,506+14.8%
20253,532$155,300+6.4%$136,716+15.1%
20243,544$146,000−0.2%$127,054+14.0%
20233,463$146,300+4.5%$125,944+14.3%
20223,677$140,000+11.1%$119,265+15.4%
20212,580$125,993+5.0%$113,399+11.6%
20202,543$120,000n/a$103,563+15.6%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailingMedian since 2020
Vice President, Lead Software Engineer573$162,700+11.1%+8% since 2023
Associate, Software Engineer III337$142,200+10.3%+10% since 2023
Vice President, Sr Lead Software Engineer231$181,950+14.7%+4% since 2023
Vice President, Sr Manager of Software Engineering109$188,000+18.3%+3% since 2023
Software Engineer103$128,353at the minimum+9% since 2020
Vice President, Product Manager75$165,300+14.9%+16% since 2022
Financial Analyst63$106,790at the minimum
Vice President, Applied AI ML Lead48$189,500+22.6%+8% since 2023
Associate, Investment Banking42$175,000+48.0%+17% since 2020
Vice President, Quantitative Research40$210,000+14.6%+45% since 2020
Vice President, Manager of Software Engineering38$164,450+7.6%−5% since 2024
Associate, Quant Analytics Associate Sr37$127,500+9.8%+3% since 2024
Vice President, Technology Support Lead29$149,700+8.4%+2% since 2024
Vice President, Analytics Solutions Manager28$162,512+16.0%+8% since 2022
Vice President, Data Scientist Lead27$175,000+15.1%+22% since 2021
Associate, Software Engineer II26$133,800+9.7%+21% since 2024
Business Intelligence Analyst23$125,091at the minimum
Data Scientist23$139,506at the minimum
Vice President, Lead Infrastructure Engineer21$158,200+10.1%+7% since 2024
Vice President, Product Delivery Manager21$148,000+7.5%−10% since 2024
Associate, Data Scientist Associate Sr20$140,300+8.5%+11% since 2024
Vice President, Quant Analytics Manager20$157,900+14.3%+31% since 2020
Vice President, Quant Modeling Lead20$168,400+7.3%−6% since 2023
Associate19$175,000+55.2%+40% since 2020
Associate, Applied AI ML Associate Sr18$166,700+19.6%−2% since 2025
Executive Director, Director of Software Engineeri18$216,050+38.0%+11% since 2024
Investment Banking Analyst18$115,000+30.9%+35% since 2020
Analyst17$115,000+45.3%+35% since 2020
Analyst, Investment Banking17$115,000+42.3%+35% since 2020
Executive Director, Product Director17$225,000+26.1%+7% since 2024
Associate, Strategic Analytics16$109,500+9.3%+16% since 2020
Vice President, Lead SRE16$159,950+11.0%+9% since 2024
Vice President, Strategic Analytics16$157,550+23.2%+31% since 2021
Associate, Technology Support III15$125,288+7.0%+7% since 2024
Applied AI ML Associate Sr14$158,030+30.8%+0% since 2024
Associate, Analytics Solutions Assoc Sr14$127,750+14.7%+16% since 2024
Executive Director, Principal Software Engineer14$209,561+31.3%−14% since 2023
Vice President, Origination/Client Manager14$285,000+59.1%+4% since 2023
Vice President, Sr Lead Architect14$186,850+23.0%+9% since 2024
Executive Director, Director of Software Engineering13$213,600+36.1%−3% since 2024

Showing the 40 most-filed of 611 job titles.

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY760$175,000
Jersey City, NJ618$173,300
Plano, TX592$156,050
Wilmington, DE384$149,450
Columbus, OH337$146,200
Tampa, FL129$140,054
Palo Alto, CA106$193,200
Chicago, IL92$154,100
San Francisco, CA79$175,000
Houston, TX77$155,000
Seattle, WA50$185,500
Newark, DE40$135,400

Showing the 12 busiest of 47 worksite cities.

By visa type: 3,366 H-1B, 52 E-3 (Australia), 11 H-1B1 (Chile), 10 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 3,428 certified, 2 certified and later withdrawn, 3 withdrawn before a decision, 6 denied.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 2025630
Oct to Dec 2025545
Jan to Mar 20261,287
Apr to Jun 2026977

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, entry7%
Level II, qualified14%
Level III, experienced18%
Level IV, fully competent61%

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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