Scout Motors Inc. H-1B wage filings

Columbia, SC. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Scout Motors Inc. filed 22 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $125,694, 24.3% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
22
Positions covered
21
Certified
95.5%
Job titles
18
Worksite cities
5
Filings since FY2023
36
Median offer change since FY2024
−21%

Offered wage since 2023

Scout Motors Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer fell 21%, from $160,000 in fiscal 2024 to $125,694 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 20.1% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2024, with 9 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$100k$120k$140k$160k$180k$160k$130k$126k120239202482025182026*

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

Scout Motors Inc. by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)18$125,694−3.3%$109,866+20.1%
20258$130,000−18.8%$117,499+36.8%
20249$160,000n/a$133,037+29.1%
20231n/an/an/an/a

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Engineer, DataOps2$125,694at the minimum
Senior Manager, L2 Integration & Testing2$200,000+43.0%
Specialist, New Projects Procurement2$97,000+15.9%
Specialist, Production Launch Engineer2$115,000+41.2%
Data-Driven Quality Engineer1$113,000+2.9%
Director- Systems Engineering Simulation and Optimization1n/a
Engineer, Range Extender Sub-Frame1$130,000+18.7%
Lead Engineer, Integration1$180,000+43.6%
Quality Manager, Body1$145,000+24.9%
Senior Designer I, Visualization1$142,000+11.7%
Senior Diagnostic Systems Engineer1$170,000+30.0%
Sr. Director – System Integration EE/SW/HW1$240,000+24.3%
Senior Software Engineer, Backend1$187,741+16.1%
Senior Technical Specialist, Crash Safety Simulation (CAE)1$160,000+32.1%
Specialist, Analysis1$125,000+60.9%
Specialist, Material Flow-Body Shop1$107,000+19.5%
Specialist, Press Shop Engineer1$120,000+43.1%
Specialist TOE Vehicle Software and Electrical Engineering1$123,000+23.1%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Columbia, SC9$120,000
Novi, MI6$130,000
Charlotte, NC5$160,000
Fremont, CA1$187,741
Irvine, CA1$142,000

By visa type: 22 H-1B. By outcome: 21 certified, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20254
Oct to Dec 20252
Jan to Mar 20262
Apr to Jun 202614

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, entry10%
Level II, qualified14%
Level III, experienced29%
Level IV, fully competent48%

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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