Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company H-1B wage filings
Milwaukee, WI. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company filed 121 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $138,510, 14.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Senior Software Engineer (25 filings, median $145,504).
- Filings
- 121
- Positions covered
- 115
- Certified
- 95.0%
- Job titles
- 46
- Worksite cities
- 34
- Filings since FY2020
- 921
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +26%
Offered wage since 2020
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company's median H-1B wage offer rose 26%, from $110,825 in fiscal 2020 to $140,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 14.3% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 209 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.
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 89 | $140,000 | +5.3% | $119,627 | +14.3% |
| 2025 | 138 | $132,908 | +2.2% | $113,516 | +13.5% |
| 2024 | 138 | $130,000 | +4.0% | $113,464 | +13.8% |
| 2023 | 131 | $125,000 | +4.2% | $105,685 | +15.8% |
| 2022 | 209 | $120,000 | no change | $99,528 | +15.7% |
| 2021 | 130 | $120,000 | +8.3% | $101,140 | +13.2% |
| 2020 | 86 | $110,825 | n/a | $92,404 | +14.7% |
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 | Median since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Software Engineer | 25 | $145,504 | +13.0% | +30% since 2020 | |
| Software Engineer | 19 | $115,446 | +11.8% | +31% since 2020 | |
| Senior Data Engineer | 8 | $142,864 | +9.5% | +31% since 2020 | |
| Senior Systems Software Engineer | 5 | $150,903 | +21.6% | +19% since 2024 | |
| Engineering Test Lead | 4 | $141,590 | +17.9% | ||
| Senior Systems Engineer | 4 | $130,301 | +4.9% | +3% since 2020 | |
| Lead IAM Engineer | 3 | $167,936 | +31.9% | ||
| Manager, Software Engineering | 3 | $163,836 | +14.2% | +14% since 2022 | |
| Assistant Director Software Engineering | 2 | $167,116 | +14.6% | ||
| Data Engineer | 2 | $99,277 | +5.6% | ||
| IAM Engineer | 2 | $108,809 | +45.0% | ||
| Lead Data Engineer | 2 | $154,288 | +7.9% | ||
| Lead Enterprise Architect | 2 | $167,230 | +61.8% | ||
| Lead Software Engineer | 2 | $163,417 | +20.7% | +12% since 2021 | |
| Senior Data Management Specialist | 2 | $151,209 | +19.4% | ||
| Senior IAM Engineer | 2 | $137,430 | +18.9% | ||
| Senior Kubernetes Engineer | 2 | $141,300 | +7.6% | ||
| Senior Security Assessment | 2 | $134,077 | +15.6% | ||
| Senior Support Engineer | 2 | $112,200 | +24.4% | ||
| Systems Software Engineer | 2 | $115,227 | +8.7% | ||
| Assistant Director, Technology Operations | 1 | $128,029 | +7.4% | ||
| Associate Quantitative Analyst | 1 | $139,880 | +170.0% | ||
| Configuration Management Database Engineer | 1 | $134,000 | +17.2% | ||
| Detection and Automation Engineer | 1 | $139,269 | +15.8% | ||
| Field Tech Solutions & Support Consultant | 1 | $80,920 | +11.2% | ||
| Investment Risk Quantitative Associate | 1 | $99,840 | +163.7% | ||
| Lead Engineer | 1 | $188,664 | +4.5% | ||
| Lead Product Designer | 1 | $164,566 | +47.0% | ||
| Lead Systems Engineer | 1 | $154,127 | +27.0% | ||
| Lead Systems Software Engineer | 1 | $153,356 | +16.7% | ||
| Manager of Data Engineering | 1 | $152,800 | +10.8% | ||
| Mobile Engineer | 1 | $131,997 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Cyber Risk Analytics Engineer | 1 | $135,041 | +100.3% | ||
| Senior Data Scientist | 1 | $152,985 | +12.7% | ||
| Senior Database Administrator | 1 | $131,121 | +30.2% | ||
| Senior Digital Analytics Engineer | 1 | $128,362 | +20.0% | ||
| Senior Product Manager | 1 | $158,100 | +1.5% | ||
| Senior Software Systems Engineer | 1 | $128,467 | +2.4% | ||
| Senior Technical Project Manager | 1 | $146,000 | +20.2% | ||
| Site Reliability Engineer | 1 | $138,014 | +51.0% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 46 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee, WI | 52 | $135,000 |
| Franklin, WI | 25 | $145,600 |
| New York, NY | 6 | $142,635 |
| Livermore, CA | 4 | $159,315 |
| Aubrey, TX | 2 | $138,750 |
| Frisco, TX | 2 | $133,527 |
| Katy, TX | 2 | $141,590 |
| Liberty Hill, TX | 2 | $163,298 |
| Ashburn, VA | 1 | $163,820 |
| Austin, TX | 1 | $153,750 |
| Chicago, IL | 1 | $120,481 |
| Clarksburg, MD | 1 | $178,000 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 34 worksite cities.
By visa type: 119 H-1B, 2 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 102 certified, 13 certified and later withdrawn, 5 withdrawn before a decision, 1 denied.
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 Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company 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.