King & Spalding LLP H-1B wage filings

Atlanta, GA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

King & Spalding LLP filed 15 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $310,000, 49.8% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Associate (9 filings, median $330,000).

Filings
15
Positions covered
13
Certified
86.7%
Job titles
4
Worksite cities
4
Filings since FY2020
85
Median offer change since FY2020
+61%

Offered wage since 2020

King & Spalding LLP's median H-1B wage offer rose 61%, from $190,000 in fiscal 2020 to $305,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 57.8% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 15 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$100k$200k$300k$400k$190k$193k$278k$250k$235k$310k$305k62020122021152022152023102024132025142026*

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

King & Spalding LLP by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)14$305,000−1.6%$160,129+57.8%
202513$310,000+31.9%$212,826+45.7%
202410$235,000−6.0%$217,371+14.1%
202315$250,000−9.9%$188,864+29.2%
202215$277,500+44.2%$180,170+34.6%
202112$192,500+1.3%$174,720+25.8%
20206$190,000n/a$149,011+46.8%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailingMedian since 2020
Associate9$330,000+46.0%+37% since 2021
Law Clerk3$225,000+86.4%
Senior Associate2$440,000+106.5%
Visiting Attorney1$225,000+37.7%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY10$285,000
Houston, TX2$335,000
Los Angeles, CA2$292,500
Atlanta, GA1$390,000

By visa type: 13 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 13 certified, 2 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20251
Oct to Dec 20253
Jan to Mar 20262
Apr to Jun 20269

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, entry8%
Level II, qualified46%
Level III, experienced15%
Level IV, fully competent31%

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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