Metropolitan Area Planning Council H-1B wage filings

Boston, MA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Metropolitan Area Planning Council filed 5 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $78,000, 6.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings: 5
Positions covered: 5
Certified: 100.0%
Job titles: 3
Worksite cities: 1
Filings since FY2022: 17
Median offer change since FY2025: +1%

Offered wage since 2022

Metropolitan Area Planning Council's median H-1B wage offer rose 1%, from $77,070 in fiscal 2025 to $78,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 6.0% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 8 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.

Metropolitan Area Planning Council by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	5	$78,000	+1.2%	$73,611	+6.0%
2025	8	$77,070	n/a	$71,323	+4.3%
2024	2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2023	1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2022	1	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	vs prevailing
Congestion Management Process (CMP) Manager	2	$77,000	+4.6%
Full Stack Developer	2	$91,080	+7.0%
Arts, Culture and Humanities Planner II	1	$76,312	+3.7%

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
Boston, MA	5	$78,000

By visa type: 5 H-1B. By outcome: 5 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jan to Mar 20264

Apr to Jun 20261

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, entry40%

Level II, qualified60%

Level III, experienced0%

Level IV, fully competent0%

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 Metropolitan Area Planning Council 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 One filing can cover several positions, and some are later withdrawn.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.
1 filing is for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year) so they can be compared.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.