Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP H-1B wage filings

New York, NY. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP filed 36 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $225,000, 66.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Associate (23 filings, median $310,000).

Filings
36
Positions covered
35
Certified
97.2%
Job titles
2
Worksite cities
7
Filings since FY2020
155
Median offer change since FY2020
−12%

Offered wage since 2020

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP's median H-1B wage offer fell 12%, from $255,000 in fiscal 2020 to $225,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 63.8% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2024, with 31 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$0k$100k$200k$300k$400k$255k$215k$215k$220k$250k$235k$225k152020232021132022162023312024262025312026*

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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)31$225,000−4.3%$156,832+63.8%
202526$235,000−6.0%$171,018+45.7%
202431$250,000+13.6%$153,254+63.2%
202316$220,000+2.3%$154,763+62.3%
202213$215,000no change$87,880+133.3%
202123$215,000−15.7%$134,014+60.4%
202015$255,000n/a$177,351+48.6%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailingMedian since 2020
Associate23$310,000+47.4%+22% since 2020
Law Clerk13$225,000+129.3%+5% since 2022

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY26$225,000
Houston, TX5$272,500
Chicago, IL1$310,000
Los Angeles, CA1$390,000
Palo Alto, CA1$225,000
Washington, DC1$225,000
Wilmington, DE1$215,000

By visa type: 34 H-1B, 2 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 22 certified, 13 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20255
Oct to Dec 20252
Jan to Mar 202610
Apr to Jun 202619

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, entry40%
Level II, qualified17%
Level III, experienced34%
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

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.

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