Lazard Freres & Co. LLC H-1B wage filings

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

Lazard Freres & Co. LLC filed 44 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $200,000, 45.6% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Associate, Industrials (4 filings, median $250,000).

Filings
44
Positions covered
44
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
33
Worksite cities
6
Filings since FY2020
237
Median offer change since FY2020
+40%

Offered wage since 2020

Lazard Freres & Co. LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 40%, from $142,500 in fiscal 2020 to $200,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 50.1% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 41 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$80k$120k$160k$200k$240k$280k$143k$161k$185k$187k$185k$185k$200k372020272021372022282023292024412025382026*

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

Lazard Freres & Co. LLC by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)38$200,000+8.1%$87,838+50.1%
202541$185,000no change$174,013+13.3%
202429$185,000−1.1%$169,229+15.2%
202328$187,000+1.1%$145,038+18.7%
202237$185,000+14.9%$145,038+41.0%
202127$161,000+13.0%$102,024+47.3%
202037$142,500n/a$95,493+42.0%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailingMedian since 2020
Associate, Industrials4$250,000+184.6%
Vice President – Healthcare3$275,000+80.8%
Analyst2$125,000+30.0%+26% since 2020
Analyst, Geopolitical Advisory2$125,000+65.3%
Analyst, Technology2$125,000+48.5%
Associate AI Engineer2$162,500+11.6%
Associate - Healthcare2$212,500+141.9%
Associate - Power, Energy & Infrastructure2$237,500+170.4%
Analyst, Capital Markets Advisory1$120,000+36.6%
Analyst, Financial Institutions1$120,000+36.6%
Analyst - Healthcare1$120,000+36.6%
Analyst, Industrials1$120,000+36.6%
Analyst - Power, Energy & Infrastructure1$120,000+36.6%
Analyst, Private Capital Advisory1$120,000+36.6%
Associate1$250,000+36.6%+33% since 2020
Associate-3, Industrials1$250,000+39.6%
Associate - Consumer, Retail & Leisure1$225,000+156.2%
Associate 11$200,000+34.5%
Associate - Power, Energy, Infrastructure1$200,000+200.9%
Data Scientist1$150,000+88.8%
Director1$300,000+22.4%
Director, Consumer, Food & Retail1$300,000+67.5%
Director, Head of IT Business Engagement1$263,000+0.7%
Director, Healthcare IB/M&A1$300,000+64.0%
Finance Director, Global Finance Advisory1$325,000+8.7%
Investment Banking Associate1$200,000+11.7%
Senior Vice President, Engineer1$200,000+51.5%
Software Engineer1$160,000+21.2%
Software Engineer - Vice President1$175,000+16.9%
Vice President1$275,000+53.6%
Vice President, Data Engineer1$250,000+49.0%
Vice President - Media, Entertainment & Sports1$275,000+11.2%
VP, SAP GRC & Corporate Security Administrator1$180,250+12.1%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY31$200,000
San Francisco, CA6$275,000
Austin, TX2$125,000
Boston, MA2$125,000
Houston, TX2$187,500
Los Angeles, CA1$300,000

By visa type: 39 H-1B, 5 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 44 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20256
Oct to Dec 20253
Jan to Mar 20268
Apr to Jun 202627

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, entry50%
Level II, qualified9%
Level III, experienced14%
Level IV, fully competent27%

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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