Trustees of Amherst College H-1B wage filings

Amherst, MA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Trustees of Amherst College filed 10 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $81,900, 22.5% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
10
Positions covered
10
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
10
Worksite cities
2
Filings since FY2020
69
Median offer change since FY2020
−11%

Offered wage since 2020

Trustees of Amherst College's median H-1B wage offer fell 11%, from $79,000 in fiscal 2020 to $70,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 22.9% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 18 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$40k$60k$80k$100k$120k$79k$70k$82k$89k$85k$86k$70k72020420211420225202313202418202582026*

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

Trustees of Amherst College by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)8$70,000−18.1%$63,770+22.9%
202518$85,500+0.6%$65,751+29.2%
202413$85,000−4.3%$72,410+30.0%
20235$88,798+8.6%$56,660+52.4%
202214$81,777+16.7%$54,636+37.6%
20214$70,050−11.3%$61,270+13.4%
20207$79,000n/a$66,603+3.5%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Assistant Professor of Philosophy1$102,800+63.8%
Assistant Professor of Sociology1$101,000+34.7%
Integration Programmer Analyst1$117,543+22.5%
Integration Programmer Analyst in Enterprise Applications1$117,543+22.5%
Lecturer in Mathematics1$70,000+20.4%
Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience1$68,786at the minimum
Staff Counselor, Bilingual/International Focus1$93,800+64.8%
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art1$70,000+25.4%
Visiting Lecturer in Chinese Language1$70,000+8.1%
Visiting Lecturer in Japanese Language1$70,000+8.1%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Amherst, MA9$93,800
Cambridge, MA1$68,786

By visa type: 10 H-1B. By outcome: 8 certified, 2 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20252
Jan to Mar 20263
Apr to Jun 20265

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, entry70%
Level II, qualified30%
Level III, experienced0%
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

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

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