Nevada Gold Mines LLC H-1B wage filings

Elko, NV. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Nevada Gold Mines LLC filed 42 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $119,400, 1.8% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
42
Positions covered
41
Certified
97.6%
Job titles
35
Worksite cities
6
Filings since FY2020
164
Median offer change since FY2020
+17%

Offered wage since 2020

Nevada Gold Mines LLC's median H-1B wage offer rose 17%, from $102,500 in fiscal 2020 to $119,700 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 0.9% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 38 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$60k$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k$180k$103k$91k$95k$98k$105k$100k$120k242020132021212022142023232024382025312026*

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

Nevada Gold Mines LLC by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)31$119,700+19.6%$113,683+0.9%
202538$100,100−4.7%$99,508+2.5%
202423$105,000+7.1%$104,790+6.0%
202314$98,000+3.2%$97,178+12.1%
202221$95,000+4.5%$84,656+3.0%
202113$90,900−11.3%$88,858+2.9%
202024$102,500n/a$83,990+27.5%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Drill Maintenance Specialist2$96,450+8.8%
Engineering Superintendent2$130,000+0.4%
Maintenance Field Engineer2$95,171+7.4%
Senior Resource Geologist2$129,750+0.2%
Superintendent, Process Operations2$125,600+2.6%
Underground Geologist III2$103,350+0.9%
Underground Mine Engineer2$89,000+2.1%
Autoclave Electrical & Instrumentation Superintendent1$125,600+3.2%
Capital Projects Engineer II1$101,400+0.2%
Chief Exploration Geologist1$148,600+24.5%
Chief Surveyor1$98,000+0.2%
General Supervisor1$130,000+0.4%
Geologist 31$110,000+1.8%
Geotechnical Engineer I1$88,000+0.9%
Lead, AHS Operational & FMS Technology1$102,000+0.8%
Manager, Resource Geology1$134,000+3.5%
Manager, Safety, Health & Training1$125,600+12.1%
Manger, Processing1$188,000+52.5%
Metallurgist1$81,400+0.1%
Principal Surveyor1$134,000+37.0%
Reliability Engineer1$88,700+0.1%
Senior Geologist1$120,000+0.5%
Senior Metallurgist1$122,500at the minimum
Senior Open Pit Mine Engineer1$129,500at the minimum
Senior Project Geologist1$119,400at the minimum
Senior Surveyor1$98,200+9.8%
Senior Tailings & Heap Leach Engineer1$115,500+0.1%
Senior Underground Engineer1$129,500at the minimum
Subject Matter Expert, Nevada Gold Mines1$162,600+25.6%
Superintendent, Geology1$125,600+5.2%
Supervisor, Accounting1$98,200+2.3%
Technical Specialist, Metallurgy1$128,100+4.6%
Underground Engineer I1$87,194at the minimum
Underground Manager1$188,000+45.2%
Underground Short Range Planning Engineer1$88,000+0.9%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Carlin, NV17$129,500
Crescent Valley, NV14$99,050
Golconda, NV6$122,500
Battle Mountain, NV2$127,800
Elko, NV2$131,050
Henderson, NV1$98,200

By visa type: 24 E-3 (Australia), 15 H-1B, 3 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 41 certified, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 202511
Oct to Dec 20256
Jan to Mar 20267
Apr to Jun 202618

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, entry15%
Level II, qualified15%
Level III, experienced17%
Level IV, fully competent54%

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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