New York Independent System Operator H-1B wage filings
Rensselaer, NY. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Also filed as The New York Independent System Operator, Inc..
New York Independent System Operator filed 37 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $117,496, 17.4% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Planning Engineer, System Modeling (3 filings, median $110,000).
- Filings
- 37
- Positions covered
- 37
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 33
- Worksite cities
- 1
- Filings since FY2020
- 188
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +29%
Offered wage since 2020
New York Independent System Operator's median H-1B wage offer rose 29%, from $90,000 in fiscal 2020 to $116,459 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 15.3% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2024, with 37 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.
New York Independent System Operator by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 28 | $116,459 | +4.5% | $98,374 | +15.3% |
| 2025 | 35 | $111,405 | +1.7% | $97,198 | +18.8% |
| 2024 | 37 | $109,550 | +1.4% | $92,810 | +19.7% |
| 2023 | 23 | $108,011 | +5.4% | $90,376 | +22.6% |
| 2022 | 26 | $102,429 | +18.9% | $90,751 | +15.3% |
| 2021 | 20 | $86,180 | −4.2% | $72,415 | +13.2% |
| 2020 | 19 | $90,000 | n/a | $76,003 | +14.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Engineer, System Modeling | 3 | $110,000 | +13.2% | |
| Senior Planning Engineer, Resource Planning | 2 | $136,328 | +18.6% | |
| Senior Quality Assurance Automation Analyst | 2 | $123,905 | +7.8% | |
| Associate Software Engineer | 1 | $95,246 | +22.1% | |
| Capacity Accreditation Analyst | 1 | $86,000 | +59.9% | |
| Cloud Engineer | 1 | $112,092 | +12.6% | |
| Commitment Analysis Engineer | 1 | $117,496 | +20.9% | |
| Economist | 1 | $121,441 | +44.7% | |
| ICAP Market Operations Engineer | 1 | $106,000 | +9.1% | |
| Manager, Capacity Accreditation | 1 | $160,000 | +20.6% | |
| Manager, Interconnection Studies | 1 | $175,140 | +32.0% | |
| Manager, Operations Engineering | 1 | $173,917 | +31.1% | |
| Manager, Resource Adequacy | 1 | $162,698 | at the minimum | |
| Manager, System Modeling | 1 | $166,400 | +44.7% | |
| Market Solutions Engineer | 1 | $110,000 | +13.2% | |
| Planning Engineer | 1 | $100,000 | +2.9% | |
| Planning Engineer, Demand Forecasting & Analysis | 1 | $115,000 | +23.9% | |
| Planning Engineer, Energy Security | 1 | $110,331 | +32.8% | |
| Planning Engineer, General Integration | 1 | $115,422 | +18.7% | |
| Planning Engineer, Generation Integration | 1 | $100,000 | +2.9% | |
| Planning Engineer, Resource Planning | 1 | $108,420 | +11.5% | |
| Planning Engineer, Transmission Integration | 1 | $115,000 | +18.3% | |
| Product Business Analyst | 1 | $90,000 | +31.0% | |
| Project Manager | 1 | $100,000 | +10.6% | |
| Senior Manager, Installed Capacity Market Operations | 1 | $199,500 | +6.4% | |
| Senior Market Design Specialist | 1 | $129,089 | +18.8% | |
| Senior Planning Engineer, Facility Studies | 1 | $129,679 | +12.8% | |
| Senior Planning Engineer, Reliability Studies | 1 | $136,729 | +18.9% | |
| Senior Planning Engineer, Transmission Planning | 1 | $145,861 | +26.9% | |
| Senior Software Engineer | 1 | $142,800 | +0.1% | |
| Senior Storage Administrator | 1 | $133,256 | +11.7% | |
| Software Engineer | 1 | $106,000 | +6.5% | |
| Technical Specialist, Reliability Studies | 1 | $147,563 | +28.4% | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Rensselaer, NY | 37 | $117,496 |
By visa type: 36 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 36 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn.
Filings by quarter
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
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 New York Independent System Operator 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.