Security Council Report H-1B wage filings

New York, NY. Last filed in fiscal 2026. Figures cover every filing since fiscal 2020; none in the latest 12 months reach five.

Security Council Report filed 16 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2026. The median wage it offered was $82,500, 16.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Policy Analyst (11 filings, median $80,000).

Filings since FY2020: 16
Positions covered: 15
Certified: 93.8%
Job titles: 3
Worksite cities: 1
Last filed: FY2026

Offered wage since 2020

Security Council Report made 16 filings across 6 fiscal years since 2020, too few in most years to track the wage year by year. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2023, with 5 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.

Security Council Report by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2025	2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2024	1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2023	5	$98,217	n/a	$89,055	+11.3%
2022	0	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2021	4	$81,250	n/a	$69,919	+15.1%
2020	2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Policy Analyst	11	$80,000	+17.6%
Deputy Managing Editor	4	$107,635	+4.9%
Deputy Managing Editor – Research	1	$100,000	+13.0%

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
New York, NY	16	$82,500

By visa type: 13 H-1B, 3 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 14 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry27%

Level II, qualified47%

Level III, experienced27%

Level IV, fully competent0%

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 Security Council Report 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 One filing can cover several positions, and some are later withdrawn.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.