Western Washington University H-1B wage filings
Bellingham, WA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Western Washington University filed 20 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $70,000, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs.
- Filings
- 20
- Positions covered
- 19
- Certified
- 95.0%
- Job titles
- 18
- Worksite cities
- 2
- Filings since FY2020
- 127
- Median offer change since FY2020
- −17%
Offered wage since 2020
Western Washington University's median H-1B wage offer fell 17%, from $84,386 in fiscal 2020 to $70,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2024, with 20 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.
Western Washington University by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 17 | $70,000 | −17.6% | $70,000 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 20 | $85,000 | +6.3% | $85,000 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 20 | $80,000 | +6.7% | $80,000 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 19 | $75,000 | +10.1% | $74,000 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 18 | $68,114 | −9.7% | $68,114 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 16 | $75,447 | −10.6% | $75,447 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 17 | $84,386 | n/a | $82,035 | at the minimum |
Offered wage by job title
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor of Special Education | 2 | $70,000 | at the minimum | |
| Dance Program Instructor | 2 | $62,400 | at the minimum | |
| Asst Prof, Elem Edu w/ emph on Children’s & Young Adult Lit | 1 | $70,000 | at the minimum | |
| Asst Prof of English (Writing Studies & Rhetoric & Comp) | 1 | $70,000 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Prof of Math Edu w/ an Early Childhood Edu Focus | 1 | $75,000 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor - Interpersonal Communication | 1 | $80,000 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering | 1 | $90,000 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Professor - Chemistry Education | 1 | $75,000 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Professor - East Asian Lang and Cultures (Chinese) | 1 | $84,305 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Professor, Intercultural Communication | 1 | $65,000 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Professor - Interpersonal Communication | 1 | $80,000 | at the minimum | |
| Associate Professor of South Asian History | 1 | $85,000 | at the minimum | |
| Cyber Range Director | 1 | $113,006 | at the minimum | |
| Cybersecurity Instructor | 1 | $65,000 | at the minimum | |
| Instructor of Japanese | 1 | $45,000 | at the minimum | |
| Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Senior Instructor | 1 | $40,000 | at the minimum | |
| Lecturer | 1 | $62,400 | at the minimum | |
| Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese | 1 | $62,400 | at the minimum | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Bellingham, WA | 19 | $70,000 |
| Poulsbo, WA | 1 | $113,006 |
By visa type: 20 H-1B. By outcome: 13 certified, 6 certified and later withdrawn, 1 denied.
Filings by quarter
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
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 Western Washington University 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.
- 2 filings are for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year) so they can be compared.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.