The Metropolitan Museum of Art H-1B wage filings

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

The Metropolitan Museum of Art filed 9 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $87,126, 11.3% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
9
Positions covered
9
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
8
Worksite cities
1
Filings since FY2020
62
Median offer change since FY2021
+10%

Offered wage since 2020

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's median H-1B wage offer rose 10%, from $79,950 in fiscal 2021 to $87,563 in fiscal 2025. In fiscal 2025 it was 16.6% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 16 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

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

The Metropolitan Museum of Art by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)3$88,000+0.5%$81,182+11.3%
202516$87,563−7.8%$83,502+16.6%
202411$95,000+1.8%$89,149+8.4%
202310$93,300−6.7%$91,021+4.8%
20227$100,000+25.1%$71,718+31.9%
202111$79,950+26.6%$73,216+24.3%
20204$63,133n/a$48,766+17.4%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Assistant Conservator2$76,500+27.8%
Assistant Curator1$87,126+7.3%
Assistant Curator, South & Southeast Asian Art1$85,000+4.7%
Associate Conservator1$90,000+4.9%
Associate Project Manager, Galleries1$124,024+5.4%
Collections Manager1$88,000+20.8%
Project Manager, Capital Projects1$140,000+11.3%
Research Associate1$70,000+17.0%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY9$87,126

By visa type: 9 H-1B. By outcome: 9 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20256
Oct to Dec 20251
Apr to Jun 20262

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, entry0%
Level II, qualified71%
Level III, experienced14%
Level IV, fully competent14%

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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