Mercatus Center, Inc. H-1B wage filings
Arlington, VA. Last filed in fiscal 2026. Figures cover every filing since fiscal 2020; none in the latest 12 months reach five.
Mercatus Center, Inc. filed 13 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2026. The median wage it offered was $81,300, 4.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.
- Filings since FY2020
- 13
- Positions covered
- 12
- Certified
- 92.3%
- Job titles
- 12
- Worksite cities
- 2
- Last filed
- FY2026
Offered wage since 2020
Mercatus Center, Inc. made 13 filings across 6 fiscal years since 2020, too few in most years to track the wage year by year. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 5 filings.
Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.
Mercatus Center, Inc. by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2025 | 5 | $91,682 | n/a | $71,282 | +21.9% |
| 2024 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2023 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2022 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2021 | 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2020 | 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy and Research Senior Fellow | 2 | $120,000 | +54.4% | |
| Emerging Scholar | 1 | $85,000 | +31.1% | |
| Postgraduate Research Fellow | 1 | $62,000 | +9.7% | |
| Program Manager (Open Health Project) | 1 | $69,100 | at the minimum | |
| Research Assistant | 1 | $53,373 | at the minimum | |
| Research Fellow - India Political Economy Program | 1 | $68,750 | +12.8% | |
| Research Fellow, Space Policy | 1 | $68,750 | +24.3% | |
| Salesforce Architecture Engineer | 1 | $103,147 | at the minimum | |
| Sr Fellow FAHP Adv Study & Philosophy, Politics & Economics | 1 | $98,363 | at the minimum | |
| Sr Fellow, FAHP Adv Study, Philosophy, Politics, & Economics | 1 | $86,195 | at the minimum | |
| Sr Fellow, FAHP, Advanced Study and Phil, Po, & Ec | 1 | $100,000 | +22.4% | |
| Sr. Research Fellow/Assoc Dir Acad & Student Prog. | 1 | $77,600 | at the minimum | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Arlington, VA | 11 | $73,350 |
| Fairfax, VA | 2 | $99,182 |
By visa type: 12 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 12 certified, 1 withdrawn before a decision.
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 Mercatus Center, Inc. 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.