Wichita State University H-1B wage filings

Wichita, KS. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Wichita State University filed 27 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $78,304, 25.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was NIAR Research Engineer (10 filings, median $78,562).

Filings: 27
Positions covered: 26
Certified: 96.3%
Job titles: 13
Worksite cities: 1
Filings since FY2020: 207
Median offer change since FY2020: +38%

Offered wage since 2020

Wichita State University's median H-1B wage offer rose 38%, from $60,008 in fiscal 2020 to $82,800 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 27.5% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2023, with 45 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.

Wichita State University by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	15	$82,800	+12.6%	$64,626	+27.5%
2025	34	$73,539	−2.0%	$57,117	+24.7%
2024	32	$75,003	+6.7%	$53,206	+43.6%
2023	45	$70,287	+15.8%	$42,665	+52.4%
2022	29	$60,715	−10.7%	$41,350	+40.8%
2021	23	$67,974	+13.3%	$36,040	+79.2%
2020	29	$60,008	n/a	$40,883	+54.4%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing	Median since 2020
NIAR Research Engineer	10	$78,562	+28.3%	+10% since 2021
Assistant Professor	2	$153,350	+171.9%
Assistant Teaching Professor	2	$68,587	+8.4%
Associate Professor of English	2	$65,000	+40.3%
NIAR Computational Mechanics Research Engineer	2	$81,000	+10.9%
NIAR Research Associate	2	$66,750	+16.9%	+11% since 2020
Assistant Professor in Business Analytics	1	$144,935	+198.8%
Assistant Professor of Aerodynamics	1	$100,000	+2.5%
Assistant Teaching Professor-School of Computing	1	$85,152	+83.8%
Mental Health Counselor	1	$67,250	+15.2%
NIAR Research Engineer-Statistician	1	$68,000	+15.6%
Post Doctoral Researcher	1	$50,000	+3.6%
Software Developer II	1	$87,035	+29.4%

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
Wichita, KS	27	$78,304

By visa type: 27 H-1B. By outcome: 26 certified, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 202512

Oct to Dec 20253

Jan to Mar 20267

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, entry69%

Level II, qualified23%

Level III, experienced4%

Level IV, fully competent4%

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 Wichita State 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.

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