Latham & Watkins LLP H-1B wage filings

New York, NY. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Latham & Watkins LLP filed 100 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 129 positions. The median wage it offered was $266,500, 97.7% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Attorney (67 filings, median $310,000).

Filings: 100
Positions covered: 129
Certified: 100.0%
Job titles: 8
Worksite cities: 10
Filings since FY2020: 492
Median offer change since FY2020: +18%

Offered wage since 2020

Latham & Watkins LLP's median H-1B wage offer rose 18%, from $220,000 in fiscal 2020 to $260,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 97.7% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 87 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.

Latham & Watkins LLP by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	90	$260,000	no change	$156,832	+97.7%
2025	87	$260,000	+2.0%	$153,254	+102.3%
2024	83	$255,000	+18.6%	$143,998	+115.3%
2023	78	$215,000	−4.4%	$119,496	+123.3%
2022	60	$225,000	+2.3%	$134,014	+105.0%
2021	61	$220,000	no change	$128,606	+71.1%
2020	33	$220,000	n/a	$126,006	+82.8%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing	Median since 2020
Attorney	67	$310,000	+101.8%	+41% since 2020
Associate	27	$235,000	+97.7%	+24% since 2020
Business Development Project Finance & Energy Industry Senio	1	$122,824	at the minimum
Global Technology Finance Manager	1	$160,000	+3.5%
Master File Maintenance Team Lead	1	$145,246	at the minimum
OGC Analyst – Compliance, US AML & Sanctions	1	$85,010	at the minimum
Practice Support Engineer	1	$110,000	+17.5%
Senior Analyst – Workplace Data & Analytics	1	$94,910	at the minimum

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
New York, NY	65	$310,000
San Diego, CA	6	$291,500
Houston, TX	5	$225,000
Los Angeles, CA	5	$160,000
San Francisco, CA	5	$365,000
Chicago, IL	4	$225,000
Washington, DC	4	$235,000
Boston, MA	3	$225,000
Menlo Park, CA	2	$242,500
Redwood City, CA	1	$365,000

By visa type: 82 H-1B, 14 E-3 (Australia), 2 H-1B1 (Chile), 2 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 99 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 202510

Oct to Dec 202513

Jan to Mar 202625

Apr to Jun 202652

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, entry24%

Level II, qualified63%

Level III, experienced10%

Level IV, fully competent3%

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 Latham & Watkins LLP 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.