Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC H-1B wage filings

New York, NY. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Also filed as Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC filed 50 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 126 positions. The median wage it offered was $138,000, 18.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Assistant Vice President (22 filings, median $135,000).

Filings: 50
Positions covered: 126
Certified: 100.0%
Job titles: 9
Worksite cities: 9
Filings since FY2020: 336
Median offer change since FY2020: +35%

Offered wage since 2020

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 35%, from $104,900 in fiscal 2020 to $142,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 17.2% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 67 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.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	45	$142,000	+3.6%	$109,491	+17.2%
2025	57	$137,000	−4.5%	$111,966	+26.9%
2024	56	$143,500	+6.7%	$116,751	+16.8%
2023	41	$134,466	−0.4%	$106,018	+18.7%
2022	67	$135,000	+4.7%	$99,466	+31.9%
2021	25	$129,000	+23.0%	$100,522	+24.4%
2020	45	$104,900	n/a	$92,482	+14.3%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing	Median since 2020
Assistant Vice President	22	$135,000	+29.7%	+26% since 2020
Vice President	15	$161,000	+8.9%	+26% since 2020
Executive Director	5	$214,000	+9.3%	+8% since 2022
Associate	2	$120,000	+28.9%	+20% since 2020
Senior Vice President	2	$108,784	+10.6%
Analyst	1	$75,500	+17.2%
Director	1	$94,000	+6.0%
International Country Market Specialist	1	$100,000	+6.3%
Investment Consultant, Portfolio Manager Specialis	1	$133,016	+51.4%

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
New York, NY	17	$138,000
Jersey City, NJ	13	$142,000
Baltimore, MD	4	$117,500
Menlo Park, CA	4	$167,524
Purchase, NY	4	$184,500
Boston, MA	3	$108,784
Miami, FL	3	$133,000
Alpharetta, GA	1	$75,500
Pasadena, CA	1	$100,000

By visa type: 47 H-1B, 2 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 49 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20255

Oct to Dec 20255

Jan to Mar 202618

Apr to Jun 202622

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, entry7%

Level II, qualified57%

Level III, experienced17%

Level IV, fully competent20%

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 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC 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.