Manager H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Computer Systems Engineers/Architects (SOC 15-1299.08).

Employers filed 5,984 wage applications for Manager jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 122 employers. The median offered wage was $118,456, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the job. Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp filed the most (4,242, median $113,797).

Filings: 5,984
Positions covered: 7,075
Employers: 122
Median offered: $118,456
Median prevailing wage: $117,582
Filings since FY2020: 54,053
Median offer change since FY2020: +24%

Manager, all employers5,984 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$118,456Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$107,640 to $145,000Where the middle half of the filings fall

$117,582Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Manager jobs rose 24%, from $95,784 in fiscal 2020 to $118,456 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2020, with 11,660 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.

Manager by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	4,161	$118,456	+3.0%	$118,456	at the minimum
2025	7,456	$114,962	+10.0%	$111,384	at the minimum
2024	7,003	$104,520	−2.0%	$103,730	at the minimum
2023	8,547	$106,621	+2.8%	$103,730	at the minimum
2022	8,997	$103,709	+4.8%	$102,211	at the minimum
2021	6,229	$98,925	+3.3%	$97,708	at the minimum
2020	11,660	$95,784	n/a	$95,576	at the minimum

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp	4,242	$113,797	at the minimum
Deloitte Consulting LLP	664	$164,112	at the minimum
PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC	279	$184,000	+24.3%
Deloitte & Touche LLP	129	$159,400	+0.5%
KPMG LLP	105	$144,900	+11.3%
PwC US Consulting LLP	52	$170,500	+22.5%
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP	48	$161,500	+29.7%
Bain & Company, Inc.	32	$212,000	+35.4%
PwC US Tax LLP	32	$166,500	+52.9%
A.T. Kearney, Inc.	29	$212,000	+35.5%
ExlService.com, LLC	25	$105,976	+7.1%
PwC US Business Advisory LLP	19	$188,000	+56.9%
Genpact LLC	18	$137,840	+23.5%
Tredence Inc.	18	$146,829	+26.8%
Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP	18	$147,483	+0.6%
PwC US Group LLP	16	$167,000	+19.8%
Alvarez & Marsal Consumer and Retail Group, LLC	14	$175,000	+79.9%
Macquarie Global Services (USA) LLC	12	$136,000	+11.5%
Exzac	10	$155,500	+16.5%
CrossCountry Consulting LLC	10	$119,000	+11.3%
Rocky Mountain Institute, Inc.	8	$105,230	+8.7%
Cognizant TriZetto Software Group, Inc.	7	$118,456	at the minimum
Hitachi Digital Services LLC	7	$128,627	at the minimum
TransUnion LLC	7	$148,450	at the minimum
Visa U.S.A. Inc.	6	$127,899	+14.2%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 122. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Manager jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
New York, NY	257	$160,000	+8.6%
Plano, TX	214	$118,456	at the minimum
Charlotte, NC	185	$113,797	at the minimum
Chicago, IL	169	$143,874	at the minimum
Atlanta, GA	143	$134,767	at the minimum
Dallas, TX	120	$156,998	+5.4%
Hartford, CT	117	$104,062	at the minimum
Irving, TX	114	$118,456	at the minimum
Austin, TX	91	$119,933	at the minimum
Jersey City, NJ	89	$126,818	at the minimum
Houston, TX	84	$144,582	+12.1%
Alpharetta, GA	76	$108,514	at the minimum
San Jose, CA	61	$181,000	+2.5%
San Francisco, CA	57	$192,000	+12.1%
Boston, MA	56	$171,385	+8.0%
Tampa, FL	56	$124,860	at the minimum
Columbus, OH	54	$115,336	at the minimum
Frisco, TX	53	$118,456	at the minimum
Edison, NJ	52	$126,818	at the minimum
Phoenix, AZ	52	$118,851	at the minimum
Raleigh, NC	51	$126,256	at the minimum
Seattle, WA	50	$175,535	+15.4%
Washington, DC	47	$153,275	at the minimum
Cary, NC	46	$126,256	at the minimum
Parsippany, NJ	46	$126,818	at the minimum

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry2%

Level II, qualified3%

Level III, experienced80%

Level IV, fully competent15%

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 employers 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.
7 filings are for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year).

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