Steel Dynamics, Inc. H-1B wage filings

Fort Wayne, IN. Last filed in fiscal 2026. Figures cover every filing since fiscal 2020; none in the latest 12 months reach five.

Steel Dynamics, Inc. filed 20 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2026. The median wage it offered was $86,500, 16.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Process Chemist (5 filings, median $88,000).

Filings since FY2020
20
Positions covered
20
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
9
Worksite cities
5
Last filed
FY2026

Offered wage since 2020

Steel Dynamics, Inc. made 20 filings across 7 fiscal years since 2020, too few in most years to track the wage year by year. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2024, with 5 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$40k$60k$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k$62k$135k$110k32020220212202222023520244202522026*

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

Steel Dynamics, Inc. by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)2n/an/an/an/a
20254$109,532−18.9%$89,024+15.3%
20245$135,000n/a$115,918+26.6%
20232n/an/an/an/a
20222n/an/an/an/a
20212n/an/an/an/a
20203$62,000n/a$56,139+7.0%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Process Chemist5$88,000+11.6%
Manager of Decarbonization Engineering3$135,000+16.5%
Process Engineer3$69,688+8.8%
Financial Analyst II2$65,500+16.2%
Hot Mill Level II Engineer2$155,000+26.6%
Product Metallurgist2$80,818+3.6%
Metallic Coated Product Administrator1$91,603+29.4%
Metallurgical Process Engineer1$92,240+5.2%
Programmer1$70,300+1.0%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Butler, IN8$74,181
Fort Wayne, IN6$130,912
Sinton, TX3$155,000
Jeffersonville, IN2$80,818
Columbia City, IN1$92,240

By visa type: 14 H-1B, 5 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 17 certified, 3 certified and later withdrawn.

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry20%
Level II, qualified30%
Level III, experienced15%
Level IV, fully competent35%

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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