U.S. Cellular Corporation H-1B wage filings

Chicago, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

U.S. Cellular Corporation filed 5 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $124,036, 4.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.

Filings
5
Positions covered
5
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
5
Worksite cities
4
Filings since FY2020
71
Median offer change since FY2020
+11%

Offered wage since 2020

U.S. Cellular Corporation's median H-1B wage offer rose 11%, from $121,128 in fiscal 2020 to $133,952 in fiscal 2025. In fiscal 2025 it was 4.3% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2021, with 20 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$100k$120k$140k$160k$121k$118k$127k$134k$131k$134k1220202020217202213202372024122025

Fiscal years run October to September.

U.S. Cellular Corporation by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
202512$133,952+2.2%$129,875+4.3%
20247$131,085−2.4%$123,614+7.1%
202313$134,354+6.1%$118,019+11.4%
20227$126,675+7.5%$114,962+4.4%
202120$117,827−2.7%$105,752+12.9%
202012$121,128n/a$111,935+9.8%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
RF Engineer1$97,430+9.8%
RF Lead Engineer1$124,036+2.6%
Sr. Developer - API Services1$130,145+5.3%
Senior Software Test Engineer1$137,758at the minimum
Senior Systems Performance Analyst1$118,685+4.2%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Chicago, IL2$133,952
Knoxville, TN1$118,685
Tulsa, OK1$124,036
Urbandale, IA1$97,430

By visa type: 5 H-1B. By outcome: 5 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20255

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, entry0%
Level II, qualified20%
Level III, experienced20%
Level IV, fully competent60%

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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