The Options Clearing Corporation H-1B wage filings
Chicago, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
The Options Clearing Corporation filed 132 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $156,998, 0.1% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps (9 filings, median $156,998).
- Filings
- 132
- Positions covered
- 130
- Certified
- 98.5%
- Job titles
- 73
- Worksite cities
- 7
- Filings since FY2020
- 529
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +41%
Offered wage since 2020
The Options Clearing Corporation's median H-1B wage offer rose 41%, from $111,405 in fiscal 2020 to $156,998 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 0.1% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2024, with 97 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.
The Options Clearing Corporation by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 111 | $156,998 | +16.3% | $153,317 | +0.1% |
| 2025 | 94 | $134,971 | −4.5% | $127,878 | +0.1% |
| 2024 | 97 | $141,400 | +4.7% | $127,878 | +3.5% |
| 2023 | 73 | $134,992 | +6.4% | $119,787 | +10.3% |
| 2022 | 60 | $126,880 | +4.5% | $112,632 | +5.9% |
| 2021 | 37 | $121,389 | +9.0% | $121,389 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 57 | $111,405 | n/a | $111,010 | at the minimum |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps | 9 | $156,998 | +0.7% | +22% since 2024 | |
| Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java | 7 | $156,998 | at the minimum | +5% since 2025 | |
| Associate Principal, Software Engineering | 5 | $130,800 | at the minimum | +19% since 2022 | |
| Lead Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering | 5 | $156,998 | at the minimum | ||
| Lead Assoc Principal, Quantitative Risk Management | 5 | $179,500 | +29.5% | ||
| Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering | 5 | $153,317 | +0.1% | ||
| Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java | 5 | $156,998 | at the minimum | ||
| Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Middleware | 5 | $156,998 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Software Engineering: Java | 5 | $180,461 | at the minimum | ||
| Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering | 4 | $156,998 | at the minimum | ||
| Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: DevOps | 4 | $156,998 | at the minimum | ||
| Associate Principal, Model Risk Management, Validation | 3 | $131,500 | +10.5% | ||
| Associate Principal - Business Analysis | 2 | $99,800 | +1.9% | ||
| Associate Principal, Internal Audit, Financial Risk and Mode | 2 | $155,000 | +42.7% | ||
| Lead Associate Principal, Data Governance | 2 | $147,763 | at the minimum | ||
| Manager, Software Engineering | 2 | $176,894 | at the minimum | ||
| Principal, Service Configuration Management | 2 | $188,100 | +22.7% | ||
| Principal Software Engineering | 2 | $179,400 | +14.3% | ||
| Sr. Associate, Model Risk Management, Validation | 2 | $124,446 | +29.8% | ||
| Senior Associate, Software Engineering | 2 | $114,189 | +3.3% | ||
| Senior Associate, Software Engineering: Java | 2 | $120,300 | +6.5% | ||
| Associate Principal, Artificial Intelligence Engineering | 1 | $130,200 | +8.9% | ||
| Associate Principal, Business Analysis & Delivery | 1 | $119,400 | +0.4% | ||
| Assoc Principal, Credit Risk Management Projects & Reporting | 1 | $123,968 | at the minimum | ||
| Associate Principal, Data Analytics Engineering | 1 | $136,700 | +20.0% | ||
| Assoc. Principal, Identity & Access Mgmt Systems (SailPoint) | 1 | $134,971 | at the minimum | ||
| Associate Principal, IT Governance | 1 | $98,946 | at the minimum | ||
| Associate Principal, Quality Assurance | 1 | $110,198 | at the minimum | ||
| Assoc Principal, Quantitative Risk Management | 1 | $111,100 | +9.8% | −11% since 2022 | |
| Associate Principal, Security Eng'g (Application Security) | 1 | $121,400 | +8.8% | ||
| Associate Principal, Site Reliability Engineering | 1 | $134,971 | at the minimum | ||
| Associate Principal, Software Eng'g: Software Develop. Test | 1 | $137,700 | +6.7% | ||
| Associate Principal, Software Eng. IBM MQ (Middleware) | 1 | $134,200 | +4.0% | ||
| Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Middleware | 1 | $134,971 | at the minimum | ||
| Associate Principal, Software Engineering: SDET | 1 | $131,200 | +1.7% | ||
| Associate Principal, Software Engineering: UI/UX | 1 | $153,317 | at the minimum | ||
| Associate, Software Engineering: DevOps | 1 | $85,467 | at the minimum | ||
| Director, Infrastructure Innovation & Automation | 1 | $202,779 | at the minimum | ||
| Director, Product Owner | 1 | $173,326 | at the minimum | ||
| Director, Quantitative Risk Management | 1 | $202,779 | at the minimum | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 73 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Dallas, TX | 75 | $156,998 |
| Chicago, IL | 52 | $153,317 |
| Aubrey, TX | 1 | $151,507 |
| Bentonville, AR | 1 | $135,500 |
| Irving, TX | 1 | $129,022 |
| Marvin, NC | 1 | $175,100 |
| Suite, TX | 1 | $134,971 |
By visa type: 132 H-1B. By outcome: 130 certified, 2 withdrawn before a decision.
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 The Options Clearing Corporation 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.
- On 68.2% of its filings, The Options Clearing Corporation declared itself an H-1B-dependent employer: one where H-1B workers make up a large share of staff, which adds hiring obligations.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.