Populous Group, LLC H-1B wage filings

Kansas City, MO. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Populous Group, LLC filed 25 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $96,013, 15.4% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Architecture Designer III (4 filings, median $108,160).

Filings: 25
Positions covered: 23
Certified: 92.0%
Job titles: 13
Worksite cities: 4
Filings since FY2020: 72
Median offer change since FY2020: −1%

Offered wage since 2020

Populous Group, LLC's median H-1B wage offer fell 1%, from $72,200 in fiscal 2020 to $71,781 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 18.1% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2024, with 16 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.

Populous Group, LLC by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	21	$71,781	−30.3%	$67,309	+18.1%
2025	16	$103,001	+15.4%	$88,899	+15.4%
2024	16	$89,253	−3.0%	$65,686	+6.0%
2023	5	$92,000	+7.2%	$67,288	+36.4%
2022	6	$85,800	+14.4%	$64,033	+16.8%
2021	3	$75,000	+3.9%	$58,552	+49.5%
2020	5	$72,200	n/a	$60,050	+20.7%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Architecture Designer III	4	$108,160	+16.4%
Architectural Designer I (Landscape Architect)	3	$64,699	+9.3%
Architectural Designer I (Landscape Architectural Designer)	3	$65,146	+10.1%
Architectural Designer II	3	$100,506	+42.6%
Architectural Designer I	2	$69,400	+0.2%
Architecture Designer II	2	$71,781	at the minimum
Interior Designer I	2	$61,318	+18.8%
Architect	1	$103,001	+15.4%
Architect/Interior Designer II	1	$93,517	+38.9%
Project Manager	1	$135,000	+1.7%
Senior Architect	1	$157,851	+26.5%
Senior Project Manager	1	$156,000	+18.1%
Signage and Experiential Designer	1	$117,520	+86.2%

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
Kansas City, MO	10	$65,146
New York, NY	10	$103,511
Denver, CO	4	$71,781
Los Angeles, CA	1	$117,520

By visa type: 19 H-1B, 3 E-3 (Australia), 2 H-1B1 (Chile), 1 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 22 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn, 2 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20254

Oct to Dec 20253

Jan to Mar 20263

Apr to Jun 202615

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, entry57%

Level II, qualified30%

Level III, experienced4%

Level IV, fully competent9%

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 Populous Group, LLC 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.