Wave Life Sciences USA, Inc. H-1B wage filings

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

Wave Life Sciences USA, Inc. filed 13 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $125,000, 2.1% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Scientist I, Biology (5 filings, median $115,700).

Filings
13
Positions covered
13
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
7
Worksite cities
2
Filings since FY2020
99
Median offer change since FY2020
+36%

Offered wage since 2020

Wave Life Sciences USA, Inc.'s median H-1B wage offer rose 36%, from $92,000 in fiscal 2020 to $125,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 2.0% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 16 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$80k$100k$120k$140k$160k$180k$92k$105k$96k$124k$126k$142k$125k152020152021162022152023112024152025122026*

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

Wave Life Sciences USA, Inc. by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)12$125,000−11.7%$117,957+2.0%
202515$141,550+12.1%$112,372+18.4%
202411$126,270+1.7%$115,586+11.2%
202315$124,120+29.3%$108,597+13.1%
202216$96,000−8.6%$85,499+9.2%
202115$105,000+14.1%$101,379+16.2%
202015$92,000n/a$85,779+10.5%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Scientist I, Biology5$115,700+2.1%
Director, Statistical Programming2$213,000+49.1%
Senior Associate Scientist, Bioanalytical2$113,464at the minimum
Project Manager II,Portfolio&Program Mgmnt (Bioinformatics)1$134,971at the minimum
Scientist II, Process Development1$151,674at the minimum
Senior Scientist I, Drug Product Technical Services, CMC1$140,000+14.3%
Senior Scientist II, Process Development1$170,400+12.3%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Lexington, MA7$151,674
Cambridge, MA6$120,350

By visa type: 13 H-1B. By outcome: 13 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20251
Oct to Dec 20251
Jan to Mar 20268
Apr to Jun 20263

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, qualified8%
Level III, experienced54%
Level IV, fully competent38%

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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