Payette Associates, Inc. H-1B wage filings

Boston, MA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Payette Associates, Inc. filed 12 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $81,000, 25.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Architectural Designer (9 filings, median $76,000).

Filings
12
Positions covered
12
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
3
Worksite cities
1
Filings since FY2020
64
Median offer change since FY2021
+27%

Offered wage since 2020

Payette Associates, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 27%, from $60,000 in fiscal 2021 to $76,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 19.4% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 15 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$40k$60k$80k$100k$53k$60k$63k$70k$82k$78k$76k320205202182022112023122024152025102026*

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

Payette Associates, Inc. by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)10$76,000−2.6%$65,541+19.4%
202515$78,000−4.3%$70,200+9.7%
202412$81,500+16.4%$74,766+6.3%
202311$70,000+11.1%$66,685+5.7%
20228$63,000+5.0%$52,666+13.0%
20215$60,000+13.0%$55,744+7.3%
20203$53,100n/a$49,733+6.8%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailingMedian since 2020
Architectural Designer9$76,000+16.0%+28% since 2022
Interior Designer2$77,788+37.4%
Design Technologist1$95,000+27.1%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Boston, MA12$81,000

By visa type: 12 H-1B. By outcome: 12 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20252
Apr to Jun 202610

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, entry17%
Level II, qualified58%
Level III, experienced17%
Level IV, fully competent8%

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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