Ropes & Gray LLP H-1B wage filings

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

Ropes & Gray LLP filed 28 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $390,000, 65.7% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
28
Positions covered
28
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
25
Worksite cities
4
Filings since FY2020
221
Median offer change since FY2020
+97%

Offered wage since 2020

Ropes & Gray LLP's median H-1B wage offer rose 97%, from $191,734 in fiscal 2020 to $377,500 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 62.2% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 44 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$0k$100k$200k$300k$400k$500k$192k$220k$240k$295k$255k$310k$378k272020292021442022392023282024332025212026*

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

Ropes & Gray LLP by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)21$377,500+21.8%$214,178+62.2%
202533$310,000+21.6%$153,254+89.3%
202428$255,000−13.6%$127,962+103.6%
202339$295,000+22.9%$96,262+140.6%
202244$240,000+9.1%$87,880+144.7%
202129$220,000+14.7%$80,558+142.5%
202027$191,734n/a$79,976+137.6%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Junior Associate (Lawyer), Strategic Transactions Group2$225,000+87.2%
Mid-Level Associate (Lawyer), PCTG (PET)2$365,000+33.0%
Senior Associate, STG (Capital Markets)2$420,000+53.1%
Junior Associate (Lawyer), Alternative Asset Opportunities1$260,000+65.8%
Junior Associate (Lawyer), Asset Management1$260,000+69.7%
Junior Associate (Lawyer), Health Care1$260,000+82.7%
Junior Associate (Lawyer), Strategic Transactions1$215,000+125.8%
Junior Associate Real Estate Investment & Transactions Group1$225,000+43.5%
Junior Associate, Strategic Transactions Group (IPT)1$260,000+82.7%
Law Clerk, Private Capital Transactions Group (Finance)1$235,000+424.3%
Mid-Level Associate, Alternative Asset Opportunities1$420,000+97.3%
Mid-level Associate, Asset Management (Private Funds)1$390,000+65.7%
Mid-Level Associate (Lawyer), Employment, Exec Comp & EBG1$420,000+85.7%
Mid-Level Associate (Lawyer), Health Care1$310,000+37.0%
Mid-Level Associate (Lawyer), PCTG (Finance)1$435,000+104.4%
Mid-Level Associate (Lawyer), Private Capital Transactions1$390,000+102.3%
Mid-Level Associate Strategic Transactions Grp (IP Transact)1$390,000+42.2%
Practice Innovation Attorney, Strategic Transactions Group1$300,000+39.2%
Senior Associate (Lawyer), PCTG (Finance)1$420,000+53.1%
Senior Associate (Lawyer) PCTG (Private Equity Transactions)1$435,000+58.6%
Senior Associate (Lawyer) Strategic Transactions Group (M&A)1$435,000+58.6%
Senior Associate, Private Capital Transactions Group (PET)1$445,000+52.2%
Senior Associate, Private Capital Transactions (PET)1$420,000+94.9%
Senior Associate, Strategic Transactions (IP Transactions)1$435,000+50.3%
Technical Advisor II, Strategic Transactions (Life Sciences)1$195,000+93.0%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY16$420,000
Boston, MA8$260,000
San Francisco, CA3$390,000
Palo Alto, CA1$225,000

By visa type: 22 H-1B, 6 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 19 certified, 9 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20257
Oct to Dec 20256
Jan to Mar 20264
Apr to Jun 202611

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, entry14%
Level II, qualified21%
Level III, experienced36%
Level IV, fully competent29%

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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