Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP H-1B wage filings

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

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP filed 39 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $88,900, 6.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Designer (10 filings, median $87,589).

Filings: 39
Positions covered: 39
Certified: 100.0%
Job titles: 14
Worksite cities: 5
Filings since FY2020: 428
Median offer change since FY2020: +24%

Offered wage since 2020

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP's median H-1B wage offer rose 24%, from $71,820 in fiscal 2020 to $88,900 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 6.8% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 92 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.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	35	$88,900	+14.5%	$88,899	+6.8%
2025	39	$77,630	−6.5%	$76,482	+4.6%
2024	48	$83,013	+3.8%	$73,507	+7.9%
2023	66	$80,000	+11.1%	$69,581	+9.6%
2022	60	$72,000	+2.8%	$60,559	+10.2%
2021	88	$70,040	−2.5%	$65,894	+8.7%
2020	92	$71,820	n/a	$62,962	+4.4%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing	Median since 2020
Designer	10	$87,589	+0.1%	+2% since 2023
Senior Designer	9	$96,678	+8.8%
Intermediate Designer	6	$73,500	+9.0%	+2% since 2022
Associate (Technical Design)	2	$118,500	+4.0%
Junior Designer	2	$65,676	at the minimum	+5% since 2022
Structural Designer	2	$104,428	+2.2%
Architectural Associate Principal (Project)	1	$141,110	+6.8%
Architectural Associate (Project)	1	$116,869	+5.8%
Associate (Sustainability)	1	$130,000	+10.0%
Intermediate Structural Designer	1	$83,533	+6.0%
Junior Structural Designer	1	$76,869	+0.9%
Senior Computational Design Specialist	1	$80,000	+5.5%
Senior Designer (Interior Architecture)	1	$114,000	+28.2%
Structural Associate	1	$116,709	at the minimum

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
New York, NY	18	$95,000
Chicago, IL	8	$74,000
Los Angeles, CA	5	$76,869
San Francisco, CA	5	$104,007
Washington, DC	3	$94,433

By visa type: 36 H-1B, 2 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 36 certified, 3 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20254

Oct to Dec 20255

Jan to Mar 202614

Apr to Jun 202616

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, entry28%

Level II, qualified56%

Level III, experienced11%

Level IV, fully competent6%

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 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP 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.