The Simons Foundation Inc. H-1B wage filings

New York, NY. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Also filed as Simons Foundation.

The Simons Foundation Inc. filed 22 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $135,000, 27.7% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Flatiron Research Fellow (10 filings, median $91,000).

Filings
22
Positions covered
21
Certified
95.5%
Job titles
4
Worksite cities
1
Filings since FY2020
178
Median offer change since FY2020
+16%

Offered wage since 2020

The Simons Foundation Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 16%, from $140,130 in fiscal 2020 to $162,510 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 55.4% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 38 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k$180k$140k$110k$90k$97k$95k$91k$163k21202017202129202233202331202438202592026*

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

The Simons Foundation Inc. by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)9$162,510+78.6%$97,074+55.4%
202538$91,000−4.6%$82,358+27.7%
202431$95,435−1.7%$80,995+25.2%
202333$97,118+7.7%$91,562+17.1%
202229$90,214−18.3%$84,365+15.7%
202117$110,477−21.2%$100,392+9.1%
202021$140,130n/a$117,645+17.9%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailingMedian since 2020
Flatiron Research Fellow10$91,000+27.0%+5% since 2020
Associate Research Scientist7$158,330+55.8%+16% since 2025
Research Scientist4$186,124+90.6%
Senior Software Engineer1$163,556+1.7%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY22$135,000

By visa type: 22 H-1B. By outcome: 19 certified, 2 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 202513
Oct to Dec 20256
Jan to Mar 20263

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, entry29%
Level II, qualified62%
Level III, experienced5%
Level IV, fully competent5%

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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